Wooden finger chopper, full routine, script and props
Here’s my fifteen minute routine with four volunteers. Includes all the props and full script with ideas for development. Included is one of the hats (the ‘Finger Catcher’) which over the years I have used in the routine. It may not be the one shown in the photo. The finger chopper is from Mission Magic (https://www.missionmagic.co.uk/) whose mission may differ slightly from mine but we are climbing different paths up the same mountain.
The chopper prop is identical to the one I use in the show. Ther are cheaper plastic imitations out there bu this is the real McCoy! Difficult to find these days…I also will include a bell (sorry not my Show bell which is too precious to part with) but should be used with great solemnity as you lead the procession. If you want to save a bit on postage you can use your own Cushion of Doom, but this is one of the audience cushions and has absorbed all the atmosphere of a lifetime of happy bottoms.
Set to Scott Joplin’s ‘Luther’ (funereal) rag (links included) and played with intentional hyperbole and bathos. I always chose the smallest little urchin for the ‘Health and Safety Officer’ who donned an enormous pair of rubber gloves “in case the finger lands on the floor and not in the catcher’. The four volunteers and I then parade to the funeral bell to ‘Luther’, before building up to the climax with jokes and an audience countdown.
There are several videos out there of the performance. Easy to do, great fun. Build it up big! Enjoy.
Here’s my fifteen minute routine with four volunteers. Includes all the props and full script with ideas for development. Included is one of the hats (the ‘Finger Catcher’) which over the years I have used in the routine. It may not be the one shown in the photo. The finger chopper is from Mission Magic (https://www.missionmagic.co.uk/) whose mission may differ slightly from mine but we are climbing different paths up the same mountain.
The chopper prop is identical to the one I use in the show. Ther are cheaper plastic imitations out there bu this is the real McCoy! Difficult to find these days…I also will include a bell (sorry not my Show bell which is too precious to part with) but should be used with great solemnity as you lead the procession. If you want to save a bit on postage you can use your own Cushion of Doom, but this is one of the audience cushions and has absorbed all the atmosphere of a lifetime of happy bottoms.
Set to Scott Joplin’s ‘Luther’ (funereal) rag (links included) and played with intentional hyperbole and bathos. I always chose the smallest little urchin for the ‘Health and Safety Officer’ who donned an enormous pair of rubber gloves “in case the finger lands on the floor and not in the catcher’. The four volunteers and I then parade to the funeral bell to ‘Luther’, before building up to the climax with jokes and an audience countdown.
There are several videos out there of the performance. Easy to do, great fun. Build it up big! Enjoy.
Here’s my fifteen minute routine with four volunteers. Includes all the props and full script with ideas for development. Included is one of the hats (the ‘Finger Catcher’) which over the years I have used in the routine. It may not be the one shown in the photo. The finger chopper is from Mission Magic (https://www.missionmagic.co.uk/) whose mission may differ slightly from mine but we are climbing different paths up the same mountain.
The chopper prop is identical to the one I use in the show. Ther are cheaper plastic imitations out there bu this is the real McCoy! Difficult to find these days…I also will include a bell (sorry not my Show bell which is too precious to part with) but should be used with great solemnity as you lead the procession. If you want to save a bit on postage you can use your own Cushion of Doom, but this is one of the audience cushions and has absorbed all the atmosphere of a lifetime of happy bottoms.
Set to Scott Joplin’s ‘Luther’ (funereal) rag (links included) and played with intentional hyperbole and bathos. I always chose the smallest little urchin for the ‘Health and Safety Officer’ who donned an enormous pair of rubber gloves “in case the finger lands on the floor and not in the catcher’. The four volunteers and I then parade to the funeral bell to ‘Luther’, before building up to the climax with jokes and an audience countdown.
There are several videos out there of the performance. Easy to do, great fun. Build it up big! Enjoy.