Comedy Magic
4 magicians who defined comedy magic, listed in order of birth.
- 🇯🇵 1896–1982 Adachi Ryūkō アダチ龍光 — born Nakagawa Hajime A conjurer who worked the yose variety halls rather than the theatre, rooting magic in a form of entertainment particular to Japan.
- 🇺🇸 1897–1962 Dell O'Dell born Odella Newton She performed in rhyme, and was among the first magicians anywhere to have a television show under her own name.
- 🇺🇸 1915–1992 Fetaque Sanders Fetaque Sanders Twenty-five years touring the segregated American South — the most successful Black magician of the Jim Crow era.
- 🇺🇸 since 1975 Penn & Teller Penn Jillette & Teller One who talks and one who never does — magic's pre-eminent double act, together since 1975.