I like how Derren explained the BMX thing. We're living in the age of CGI and tricks don't impress us that much anymore, but when you explain it it's really interesting.

*Derren puts out 20 pound note* *Steves eyes buldge with imagined ritches*

The last trick with Stephen Fry: Derren was performing at a restaurant pre fame and did that trick for a table of patrons, one turned out to be a C4 producer. The rest is history 👍

Absolutely fantastic! I tried the bmx thing on my Nan and I kept tapping her on the arm everytime that I shouted CAKE and I bought her a cake but unfortunately she wanted a shed...

Aw matt lucas' face bless him, literally the expression of a child in wonder.

The pure excitement on Derren's face when he was about to trick Stephen Fry was adorable. Has Derren done anything for Penn and Teller?

'I ain't afraid of no man', except the two DBs: Derren Brown and David Blaine.

Derren looks like a mind-reader, but he's not. He's actually a mind-writer. Whatever choice or thought you think you made on your own, Derren put it in there. Derren knows what card you selected because he made you choose that card. It's amazing, and I wish I could do that as well :) You think you have free will? Not around Derren :)

Merchant was gutted about the money

20:33 *Notice how Derren puts the cigarette down and then puts the card in his mouth.*

On the last choice, Derren loudly says "Yes!". Pretending it was about his process, but IMO he was prompting/suggesting to Steven too choose yes? He did! And I knew he would!

For once explaining a magic trick was 10x more awesome than the actual trick, which was absolutely incredible to begin with. Damn.

After listening to Steve Merchant on XFM for so, so long, I'm 100% certain he died a little inside during that trick, and I want to hug him because of it. The worst part is that Derren knew it too... Also, gender and sexuality aside, I imagine that everyone who sits across from Derren Brown both falls in love with and is terrified of him simultaneously. I feel both of those emotions just watching him onscreen.

Last one, you can see when he switches the cigarette and the card. I love that he would keep this visible so we can see. Great.

Derren derren derren your voice is aesthetically soothing to my brain

Brown throws a hypnotic anchor... Pegg is showing all the signs of being a somnambulist so helping him forget having been a bit more helpful from a prior time wouldn't be too hard a task for an even half decent hypnotist. :-) The waffle is lovely though.

The no/yes thing is one of my favorites, because there's definitely no trick to it. I think its totally forward. Lots of his stuff is based on misdirection, sleight of hand, common mentalism tricks, but that one is just straight up psychology.

Incredible!!! I'm from Sweden and didn't know about this incredible artist. I'm now a new fan! ❤️

Steve's eyes bulged with imagined riches

The Simon Pegg one is really amazing. Darren Brown is probably one of the most dangerous people alive today

From the bottom of my heart, thank you Derren for showing I am not weird or a bit psychic, but that it is my prior unknown mannerisms and observations that have caused impressions that fooled me into wondering if I had a gift even though I do not believe in that. Very refreshing and awesome! (Now I need to figure out this perpetual clock thing in my head)

One thing I love about DB is he never takes shit from people. He utilizes NLP to get people to do exactly what he wants them to do! He's in control! That said, my fave guests were Pegg and Fry. Marvelous reactions.

This guy is brilliant. Just saw his Netflix show and I'm hooked.Binge watching everything I can find

I love getting the occasional glimpse into how all this stuff works, like the red spots on the package containing the bike

At around 20:31 - the last trick with Stephy Fry - if you watch Derren's right hand holding the cigarette, you can see him switch it out at the edge of the table for the real card.

When Derren was asking simon "Are you sure, did you want .. questions" I was like "hey, stop bullying the nerd."

That card one at the end... amazing

Matt Lucas didn't put him " Under...." LMFAO 😂

If you really want to check if someone is blindfolded, pretend to slap, / punch them and if they flinch. HOORAY! They're not blindfolded.

That tape recorder in the back in Simon Pegg's one is such an indication that he's trying to influence wheels turning

ita amazing how the human brain works and most of us havnt a clue lol

0:39 Almost certainly swapping the chosen cards for the loaded ones (up his sleeve) here. At 0:43 he does something unnatural with his sleeve, presumably pushing the cards further back.

People don't realise how good of a painter DERREN BROWN is..

Derren is one scary dude 😂

For the Americans out there, the well known people are: That guy from Dr. Who and Bridesmaids(?) That guy from Ricky Gervais stuff That guy from the new Star Trek stuff That well known guy And that guy you recognize from BBC, seems like a nice bloke.

I just got in a sort of trance watching this video and paying attention to the details. I really thought I was around 5 minutes or less in the video and I was at 16 minutes...

Frist trick is just a beauty.

I decided to memorize his patter and tried to match the exact physical touches and movements and it worked on 3 males it failed on the 2 females. Weird but has me intrigued hats for sure

I love Stephen Fry's reaction. "Fuck off!" Lovely.

When mental suggestion meets a card shark.

"Best thing is to ignore them for now, really." I've never immediately fallen in love with a throwaway line so easily. It immediately told me "therefore I need to pay attention to them.... except, no, he actually wants me to focus on them, that 's why he said that, they are a decoy.... except maybe *that's* what he wants me to..." This is some reverse psychology bullcrap, I'm sure, and I'm interested.

5:58 "YES.. I'm gonna change that, for that" I see what you did there Derren :)

He is so elegant.

seen derren live twice and his show is mind blowing

Is it just me or is Derren completely smitten with Stephen Fry? He looks at him like he fell in love with him.

Please tell me u have got the video when u freaked out Karl Pilkinton?

Thanks for the upload Derren (or rather Derren's minions), never fails to amaze me!

video starts at 0:00 thank me later

The Stephen Fry one was boss.

20:30 watch derren's right hand as he switches the cigaret for a burnt king of hearts.

The thing he did with Simon Pegg is called a snap induction, most people think of hypnosis as the swinging watch and you are getting very sleepy, but that's not necessary. When someone reaches out to shake your hand your automatic response is to put your hand out too, you don't have to think, "oh this person is putting out their hand for me to shake I'd better do the same" it's just automatic, but when something other than what you're expecting happens like them grabbing your wrist your brain doesn't know how to react and boom you're in a hypotonic state.(a bit of an oversimplification, but there's plenty of videos on KZfaq on snap induction if you're interested)

Oh I wish I could hear karls thoughts on the Steven one. Especially when he bought the money out

I wish someone would look at me the way Derren looks at Steven :P

0:00 Agent 47 Really let himself go.

i saw the bmx thing coming from a mile away. if anyone knows/remembers white collar, there was episode with real and fake diamonds and the mc had to convince someone to only check out the real gems by wearing a certain color of tie and using that kind of wordplay. really amazing to see it happen with real people tho

The guy with grey hair just foooked it up. He could say "Lamborghini"

OMG MATT LUCAS!

Bmx one was all about the room... there were a bunch of circles paired together that were red, hell even the tape thing was moving 🤷🏽‍♂️

Communication skills= Derren Brown XD

I legit had a bmx bike in my head too when he was rambling on about how he "bikes" gift

What madness is this?!!😮

The first segment, HOW did Derren know which cards he picked, since it was obviously picked completely at random?

Seeing the Simon Pegg moment it was like Derren was babysitting him and he was like....Who am I. Are you the chosen one who came for my redemption. Am I in the future...Are You God!!!!!! Lol!!!!

"Yes Im Jewish" - " Jack of Diamonds" 🤣 Is it really that simple?

Derren once made a sausage appear in my mouth

True fact.Darren was Hogwarts top student until Harry arrived

Card, card, card, card, _ _ _ _ _, Brilliant! Or, did Steven impress upon me? I thought his card would be the 10d...I am utterly floored by Derren's seamless mastery.

I wish these always explained how he does these things. I can tell a lot, but not always. The BMX bike trick was hilarious.

5:40 eyes bulging with imagined riches.

20:34 now thats some quick hands!

It is amazing how old tricks still fool people. There was a guy in the 1930s who used to straighten bent spoons during his act (on Atlantic cruises). But that was before TV, so he never became famous.

Simon Pegg looks so giddy and bewildered

mat lucas is adorable.

The BMX thing really shows you how advertising can sneakliy get you to buy what they want you to...

The first one is fairly simple I believe. It is, we the audience, that are being tricked into thinking that Matt doesn’t know what the cards are and is being asked to think of 3 cards. What is actually happening is massive change in perception between what happened and what we think is happening. Imagine there were 2 different tricks filmed. One trick featured Matt knowing what the cards were and had a part where he was asked to recall them. That is what we are seeing. We think Matt is being asked to randomly choose 3 cards. But what was going on was Matt was being asked to remember his 1st, 2nd and 3rd cards that were face down whilst Darren was confusing him. The other trick would be very similar but featured different elements such as Matt shuffling the cards randomly. Then elements from these two different tricks are edited together to form a seemingly impossible trick. Notice the keys and pen move positions throughout. Since the two tricks are similar and both good in their own right, once it is broadcast Matt will have forgotten the details and think it looked how it happened. He would have been told only 1 of tricks would be chosen for broadcast whereas it’s elements from both tricks spliced together to form the impossible

They look hypnotized

the second guy looks crazy

8:50 It's the handshake thing he talked about on Joe Rogan!

im sure that when derren explains the how its not but it is convincing and plausible

The trick with Stephen Fry is one of the most wonderful pieces of showmanship I've seen. Personally I'd prefer if Derren didn't explain exactly how he does it because I feel it breaks the spell (tho I can see others feel differently).

He'll convince anyone who's willing to keep listening to him, failing to walk away...

Matt Lucas cards were forced using NLP: 1) 6 of Clubs ---- DB says "pop up into your head" while making the shape of a playing card club with his hands! Then he asks him to remember the worst character he played which is Sir Bernard Stateley that ran for only SIX ten minute shows. Matt's talked before about this. As a comedy show actor you're judge by the networks on how many shows a series can run for so SIX is the most important number to him and is directly tied his character being a flop 2) 4 of clubs ---- DB moves on quick to keep the connection to the last card and while pointing at something solid "keys" nice K sound for cards and clubs, (NLP solid = firm choice = same as before), at the same time he's point he re-enforces it with "very interesting".. NLP pathway locked!.. now he asks what the 2nd card is.. not the NEXT card, but the second card, so he's basically asking tell me a card that is two more that the last one. At this point he's not expecting Matt to answer and almost messes it up cos most people would say 8 of clubs being two more than six but then when he pushes the keys and says you can have those "back" he's trying to switch it to six, however Matt actually says the number four before he stops him but after he says "back' so he quickly shift again to say "oh no i actually do need them".. aka stay with that answer. 3) jack of diamonds --- This ones pretty easy... DB starts off my asking him to confirm that these cards are coming "right out the top of your head as I'm talking to you right now", (plant cards with heads) He then puts those other cards together and pauses, slows down his speech to separate them from the LAST card. Ok the Jack is not LAST but close to the end of the deck to so head, end-of-deck.. King, Queen or Jack... ok so he knows Matt is Jewish and very proud of it and he laughs when Matt mentions Jesus cos it links in nicely to the Jewish question.. J being Jesus and Jewish and Jack, he says "right now" twice more and then asks if he's "Jewish, religiously so or not so religiously so", right then it's Jack and what suit... well the biggest Jewish RELIGIOUS symbol is the Star of David that looks a lot like a Diamond ( more so that any other suite anyway). DONE!

haha the one with Simon Pegg, bike gifts, handle bar none, to saddle. It's crazy how powerful suggestion is.

I watched this years ago but I came back to watch it again. As I was watching it, I said 7 of clubs, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts. Strange. Didn't get them quite right but the last one was spot on for me.

100% not the first time martin kemp has blindfolded somebody ....

did anyone notice that Steve got the last one right he said it would be yes and it was

As Mr. Fry said... ‘quite brilliant’. Thanks so much.

Just realized there is a diamomd shape on the table that fry is sitting, and the card beside the king of hearts is a diamond

12:10 that awkward moment when you miss out the r in leather 😂😂

9:44 "even though two days before they said "I want x" what ever that is, or a really nice car like a BM - or a X-box , something like that. Something they really wanted" lel

The mind boggles 🤣🤣🤣🤣Brilliant

What separates Derren Brown from literally every other magician on the planet is that he absolutely insists on showing the audience how he does his tricks as he's doing them, the clearest example is the sharp camera cuts to Simon Peggs arm every time he taps it, I didn't quite get what it was but I knew it was going to be something that ended in 'x'

I stopped it at 13:09 and IDK if Brown further reveals how he did it, but honest to God, this is the first time I have seen this particular stunt of his and I guessed he was going to say BMX bike because as I was watching it it became obvious to me that he was using NLP and each time Brown tapped him on the arm or wherever, it was to punch up a particular word or part of a word he was saying. I took note of what those words were as it was going along. I also noticed that he was not just babbling nonsense as he held his other hand to the table. He was locking him in and slightly hypnotizing him, and giving him the very clear suggestion that no matter what he had written down on that piece of paper beforehand, what he REALLY wanted was a BMX tat he had been suggesting to him rater overtly. e hypnotized him into simply believing that that overcame whatever he actually wanted. And then, if you notice, he taps him again and says a few key words to snap him out of the trance just prior to opening the envelope, leaving him with the resonating feeling (or in this case, post-hypnotic suggestion) that indeed he wanted a BMX all along. Just read up on NLP and hypnotism. Any of this can be easily done and is all the time. (Despite beliefs that one cannot be hypnotized against one's will). You most certainly can.....and are.

There's just one question - how?!

Am I the only one who had to rewind back to the bike convo after it was explained to see if I could pick out all the words and hints?

No ifs or buts.... Derren Brown is a genius!! Kx

Thank the Lord he's not in sales or marketing.

I'm just curious what age groups watch Derren Brown. Comment the number that has your age group in it. 1-(0-12) 2-(13-18) 3-(19-25) 4-(26-30) 5-(31-45) 6-(46-50) 7-(51+)

I love the kind of effect this has on people. They are all of the sudden in a bizzare >>dream like world

It doesnt work if you are not a native speaker of english. But when he shows the trick its great.