(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep) I was saying ‘there's fifty quid under the phone book. Just pretend. You're on TV'. (Derren Brown)

(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep) I was saying ‘there's fifty quid under the phone book. Just pretend. You're on TV'.

Derren Brown

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