David Blaine is at it again. The “Magician” just broke the Guinness World Record for holding one’s breath. The previous record of 16 minutes 32 seconds was set back in February. Blaine used the “Oprah” show as his stage for the record-setting feat, holding his breath in a water-sphere for 17 minutes 4 seconds and forcing the studio-audience to sit through this boring event.
Blaine is the biggest joke. At first he was kind of a cool magician, now he just specializes in endurance stunts - floating in water, laying in a frozen box of ice or living in a box. What’s next? Is he going to force himself to watch a marathon of Hallmark movies on the Lifetime Channel? Blaine even said that breaking the breath-holding record was “a lifelong dream.”
Well, Blaine has inspired my lifelong dream, it involves Blaine holding his breath forever! I will say that the best thing that ever came as a result of Blaine, was this hilarious video of his Street Magic on YouTube.
Original Story: Associated Press.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Mitch Martin // Apr 30, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Isn’t brain damage supposed to set in after 4 minutes without air?
Maybe that doesn’t apply if the brain is already damaged to begin with.
2 Mr. Wonka // Apr 30, 2008 at 10:03 pm
not gonna call bullshit outright, but Blaine has been proven (not my opinion, absolutely proven) to blatantly reedit and manipulate video for his bullpoop street magic shits.
when the AIDA certifies this, then we’ll talk, but I’m willing to bet they don’t.
he has to choose. if he’s a “magician”, then he does tricks, which (wait for it) trick people! if he’s some yahoo performance artist, then he can rightfully claim to pull this garbage. but he isn’t really. but he’s a mediocre magician who found success with doctored videos, and if he claims to hold his breath for 3 hours, I’m gonna be a little dubious…
why don’t you “float” above a sidewalk, and just keep going up, up and away, you fucking hack…
Leave a Comment