Carroll Baker

Magician, Funny Man & Card Cheat
i like long walks and poking dead things with a stick.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Did you grow up eating at Max & Erma's or Old Bag of Nails around Columbus? The magician at your table was probably me. That's me at Old Bag of Nails in the photo.

If you remember a trick from back then, tell me. Which restaurant, and what do you remember?

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

In Bexley tonight? Come find me at the Bexley Harvest Festival in Jeffrey Park. Two family magic shows, at 6:30 and 7:10. The kids get to help, and Orchid the rabbit is coming too.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Halloween is on a Saturday this year, and the parties start early.

For a family party, a show where every kid who helps gets a moment, fun rather than frightening. For the grown-ups, walk-around magic and mind reading.

Send me your date. 614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Not every holiday party is at the office. Some of my December bookings are in people's homes: magic in small groups, right in your guests' hands, and nothing for you to set up.

The December Fridays and Saturdays go first. Send me your date. 614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

A parent, in a video on my website: "My daughter turned nine and she wanted him because she saw him at Townhall doing all his great magic tricks."

I worked Townhall for a year in 2023. She remembered.

You never know who is watching. Finnegan's Wake, Wednesdays 5 to 7.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Every one of my Ultimate birthday shows ends with a real rabbit. These days her name is Orchid.

The birthday star makes her appear. Then every child at the party gets a turn to pet her. All of them.

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

More than $9,000 in the Queen of Hearts pot at Finnegan's Wake. They draw at 6 tonight.

I'm there 5 to 7, table to table.

Shuffle the deck yourself and I will find your card. The queen on that board is the one card I have no say over. Nobody does.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

For senior center and retirement community activity directors: seated comedy magic and mind reading, about 45 minutes, residents in the middle of it.

"Mr. Baker kept our crowd of 45 folks astounded and laughing." Jayne Vandenburgh, Westerwood Retirement Community

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Both of us are getting ready for December.

He has the better outfit. He is also the one holding the Queen of Spades, which tells you how that went.

December is the busiest month of my year and the good dates go early.

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

My name on the board at the Magic Castle, in the Close Up Gallery. I have worked there twice.

That room is other magicians sitting three feet away trying to catch you.

It taught me what I actually sell. Close-up works because there is no distance. Your guests hold the props.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Wednesday. Finnegan's Wake, 5 to 7.

Table to table and behind the bar, same as every Wednesday for six years. Queen of Hearts draw at 6.

No stage, no mic. You are holding the cards and you are shuffling them. Nowhere for me to hide.

Bring the friend who cannot be fooled.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Four school assembly programs: positive choices, anti-bullying, reading, and math.

Math-a-Magic is the one where I can say what most performers cannot about their own show. I wrote the booklet it comes from.

Forty-five minutes. A room and one outlet.

https://t.co/0wRdMjqKm7

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

How early is too early to book a December party?

December is the busiest month of my year and it is not close. The good Fridays and Saturdays get decided between now and the end of October.

You do not need the whole plan. Just the date.

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

If your guests don't enjoy the show, you pay nothing.

Full time since 1991, somewhere north of 10,000 shows. Nobody has ever claimed it.

Hiring entertainment is a risk somebody takes with their own name on it. That risk should be mine, not yours.

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Wednesday. Finnegan's Wake, 5 to 7.

Table to table and behind the bar, same as every Wednesday for six years. At 6 they draw for the Queen of Hearts. The pot is close to $8,000.

No stage, no lights. Close-up magic a foot from your face.

Bring somebody who can't be fooled.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Every person who comes up to help me gets a moment where they are the one who did it. Not me. Them.

I build every show that way, birthday party or sales conference.

People don't remember tricks. They remember the night they were briefly amazing.

614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Companies are booking December right now.

I know that sounds early. The good Fridays and Saturdays go first, and by October the calendar is mostly decided.

Comedy magic and mind reading. If your guests don't enjoy it, you pay nothing.

Columbus, OH. 614-800-8909

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Schools go back this month, so: I have taught magic in four Upper Arlington elementary schools for more than 28 years. Windermere, Barrington, Tremont and Wickliffe. Plus about 21 years of summer camps at Columbus Academy.

Nobody keeps you that long to be polite.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

Wednesday means Finnegan's Wake, 5 to 7, table to table and at the bar.
At 6 they draw the Queen of Hearts. The pot is over $7,000.
Six years of Wednesdays now. Close-up magic a foot from your face, no stage, nowhere to hide.
Bring somebody who says they cannot be fooled.

[Carroll Baker @MagicmanCB]

That is the show board at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and that is my name in the Close Up Gallery.

Matthew Gray Gubler, after a private show for him and his friends: "A modern day Merlin, only better, because there is no chance of getting eaten by a dragon."