2013-04 Duck Dynasty with your Card Duck!

I want to share with you a routine that I have been doing for the past few months.  My Card Duck has mostly sat of the shelf for years, only to be used at an occasional birthday party or event where I want to make a person’s name magically appear.  Harry Blackstone Sr. was said to have loved the trick . I first saw it on an old Magic Land of Allakazam show performed by Mark Wilson.

The currently popular TV show Duck Dynasty has breathed new life into this old and enchanted prop!  I want to share my routine with you and if you have a duck, I hope you can use my routine and improve on it.   

Just stick a little black fake fur on the side of the bill of the duck with some double sided tape. Make it look like a wide beard.  Use the toe-end of an old black sock for the toboggan hat.    I guess that you could also wear a beard and a toboggan hat!

Use a Kazoo instead of a Duck call and build the skit around training the  duck by using your “duck call”.

Force a 3 of Hearts and have  them whisper it into your ear and show the audience.  Hold your hand over the ducks ears.

“No Peeking Duck!”  (To the audience) “I am telling him that so he does not think that he is headed for a Chinese restaurant.”

Hum the Kazoo to the beat of the sound of “3 of hearts”.

Duck pulls out a blank card… (To audience) “What do you expect, he’s a duck!”

“Listen better, Willie! Don’t be in such a ,huh, fowl mood.”   Duck pulls out a Tree of Hearts Card.

“Come on, this should be duck soup! Oh sorry!  Try again.”

Hum the Kazoo to the beat of “3 of hearts”.

“Come on ,duck…. ‘duck’!   Ha, he just quacks me up!”

“Let’s see. Do I have my ducks in a row?”

“This one is a sitting duck”

The duck comes up  with a three of hearts!

I have drawn a Z-Z-Top type beard on each of the hearts with a Sharpie. I manipulate this card with the “Tree” and the black card to the bottom of the deck  before it is put in the holder.  Give it to the volunteer as a souvenir.

I am sure you can come up with funnier and better lines… The premise is absurd and audiences love it.

Dennis

Here I am with the “Clementine” country duck

version of Joanne the Card Duck. I was told that this

was made by Warren Hamilton in the early 1960s.