Epinglé - or Pinned is an excellent trick-gag to perform for any audience and it is gauranteed a laugh! It also makes for a perfect set up to performing the vanishing cigarette in a spectator's jacket. EffectYou begin by asking a spectator if you can borrow his jacket...As he reluctantly hands over his garment to you, the untrustworthy spectator you comment on his jacket mentioning that it is a very beautiful jacket and therefore must be very expensive. But as you are looking for the brand on the inside it becomes apparent how he managed to afford such a nice jacket!He didn't buy it ! He obviously stole it, there security tag is still on the back of his jacket! This always gets a huge roar of laughter from any audience.As a favour you manage to remove the tag (as they are notoriously difficult to remove - that is unless you aree a magician!) and you put it in your pocket.
Now, you can end there or you can easily go into the vanishing cigarette routine as you are in the perfect position to do so. A well of material from the spectator's jacket is made within your fist into which you clearly place a lit cigarette, just as the audience and more importantly the owner of the jacket start to FREAK OUT you click your fingers and show that the jacket is completely unharmed and the cigarette has completey vansihed!You can give the jacket back to its owner and take your bow!
