“A gob-smackingly talented
magician…equally good at stand-up and boasts immaculate timing” Mickey Noonan, Metro
“Firman is a delight”
The Independent
"If you are partial to a
bit of magic with your comedy, Firman is the best of the bunch." Bruce Dessau, Evening
Standard
“The audience is caught between guffawing laughter and amazed gasps” The Guardian
“Pete
Firman is putting the pimp back in magic… leave your scepticism at the door and see it to
believe it.” The List
“A
rollicking hour without a dull moment” Chortle
**** Metro
**** The Independent
**** The Herald
**** Fest
**** Three Weeks
**** Chortle
Pete Firman is
regarded as a uniquely gifted magic entertainer, gleefully injecting the genre with his anarchic,
off-beat humour and dazzling array of skills. He starred as cheeky northerner 'Tufty' in Five's
anarchic, hip magic show Monkey Magic, and is re-defining the rules of magic entertainment. Since
then he has made numerous series for British television, most recently Secret World of Magic for
Sky One.
Pete grew up in
Middlesbrough where his parents and sister provided a normal loving family environment. He studied
for an acting degree and was looking forward to joining the family business selling second hand
cars. But somewhere along the line something went wrong. Pete spent his teenage years locked away
in his bedroom practicing magic furiously with just a poster of Pamela Anderson for company.
Seeing an advert for new magicians to present a TV show Pete stripped to his underpants in a snowy
back garden and filmed himself performing tricks. The show was FIVE’s Monkey Magic and Pete's
career as a TV magician started. Since Monkey Magic he has traveled the world meeting his magic
heroes and performing his own brand of anarchic magic in Sky One's The Secret World of Magic, and
amazed viewers with his ability to perform disgusting tricks with animals, cigarettes and big
spikey things in Channel 4's Dirty Tricks.
2006 saw
the release of Pete’s first book for the public, ‘Tricks To Freak Out Your Friends’.
So successful was it in the UK, it was also released in the USA and is about to go into its second
print run.
TV and Radio
2007
The Convention Crasher
Channel
4
2007 Saturday Live Again!
ITV
1
2003 Monkey Magic (series 1)
FIVE
2004 Monkey Magic (series 2)
FIVE
2003 The Greatest Magic Tricks in the Universe… Ever
FIVE
2005 The Secret World of Magic
Sky
One
2006 Dirty Tricks
Channel
4
Press
“You’d have to be clinically braindead not to impressed… the MySpace generation’s
Tommy Cooper” - The Scotsman
“Firman is a delight…all cleverly misfiring tricks and hapless
charm” - The Independent
“Pete Firman is putting the pimp back into magic… leave
your skepticism at the door and see it to believe it” - The List
“A
gob-smackingly talented magician….equally good at stand-up and boasts immaculate timing”
- Metro
“The
audience is caught between guffawing laughter and amazed gasps” - The Guardian
“For magic with your comedy, Firman is best of the bunch”
- Bruce Dessau, Evening
Standard
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