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Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

The hippest stars of stage, screen and TV bring their hilarious magic and comedy act to book form—and teach readers how to con, do magic and generally trick close personal friends into looking like helpless idiots. The authors, who appear regularly on "Saturday Night Live", "The David Letterman Show" and "Tonight", will tour 11 cities.

Genre
humor
Themes
art
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 203 pages

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