You've Got David Blaine: Magician Submerges In A Tank, Spits Out A Goldfish (VIDEO)

David Blaine first gained recognition with his levitation tricks on "David Blaine: Street Magic" on ABC in 1997. He's caught the attention of pedestrians, and television viewers with his illusions and endurance artistry. Now, AOL has captured the well-known escape artist for the latest installment of "You've Got," in which Blaine performs a stunt in the New Jersey Liberty Science Center fish tank while talking about experiencing the "best side of humanity" at local museums.

Not short on tricks itself, the video features Blaine submerged in the tank with fish swimming around him while he "smokes" a cigar and even spits out a goldfish.

"When you're doing things that are real that seem impossible; that's a different kind of magic. It's-self gratifying," Blaine says.

Comments

[Blissfully ignorant 2012]

09:51 AM on 02/23/2012

Not sure about the promoting of cigars for school-aged kids but, the tricks were cool....

[the81kid]

04:54 AM on 02/23/2012

And the world's most superfluous magic act award goes to...!

[ReealOne]

04:38 AM on 02/23/2012

David Blaine is amazing. You have to admire someone who is fearless and keeps pushing the envelope of "magic".

Has anyone ever seen his trick where he lifts himself off the ground and suspends himself in the air? I did. How do you explain him doing this, with no invisible lifters.... and then you touch the space where he's lifted himself up..... and there is nothing there except space.

[the81kid]

04:54 AM on 02/23/2012

I don't know. And I don't care.

[ReealOne]

05:23 AM on 02/23/2012

But yet YOU took the time to post a SA comment.... besides, you don't know anything about anything. Unbelievable.

[RButler]

04:06 AM on 02/23/2012

At my job many back in the 90s, I got an order for a person named 'Copperfield, David'.  I thought, "Who would name their kid that".  Well, it was the magician.  I was so tempted to ask how he made the plane disappear and so on but I didn't say a thing.  But, I did ask the person in charge to ask but he didn't either.  He was really funny and great by the way.

[beenzrgud]

03:55 AM on 02/23/2012

David Blaine is very good, but I don't think he's as good as Steven Frayne, AKA Dynamo. His tricks are similar to those of Blaine just taken a stage further.

[Tonydeeee]

03:38 AM on 02/23/2012

I will pay you to make the tea party disappear.

[hottingers]

03:01 AM on 02/23/2012

This guy is weirder than Doug Henning.

[Mr Crabs]

02:35 AM on 02/23/2012

Still better than Criss Emo.

[Larkhill]

01:03 AM on 02/23/2012

A fake glowing cigar and a mouth full of milk... just magical.

[SocialNote47]

02:52 AM on 02/23/2012

Never thought about that..Good one. I thought it was a water proof cigar like the cig's that blow out vapor..Of course the it would blow out to water and you would not be able to see it. Your prob, right.. Makes sense...

[SocialNote47]

02:54 AM on 02/23/2012

But wait what about the fish that he spit out first??

[Etropalld]

03:05 AM on 02/23/2012

It was in his mouth?

[Ducktaper]

03:08 AM on 02/23/2012

Um I am guessing here.... shoved in his mouth before he went in. Odds are it was eaten by the other inhabitants of the tank making it kinda creepy and really an f'ed up thing to do.

[Chucky Sly]

12:41 AM on 02/23/2012

Always liked this guy. A little weird. Didn't much dig the weird endurance gags (encased in a block of ice, buried alive) but he's always managed to capture attention and intrigue. And smoking a cigar underwater IS pretty cool (poor fish subjected to secondhand smoke LOL).

[OrleyHuxwell]

12:24 AM on 02/23/2012

Wait'll that fish swims by with your name spray painted on its side.....

[rongway1]

12:05 AM on 02/23/2012

Milk or some kind of white fluid...

[mch321]

11:49 PM on 02/22/2012

That was pretty awesome.

[PMJ79]

10:03 AM on 02/22/2012

Smoking a cigar underwater ... that was cool! :-)