Amazing Kreskin Dies at 89

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Mark Jeffries

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Dec 11, 2024, 12:34:59 PM12/11/24
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The veteran mentalist made 88 appearances with Carson, along with over 100 appearances each with Mike Douglas, Merv and Regis and Kathie Lee, appearances on many other shows and his own Canadian/syndicated series "The Amazing World of Kreskin"--he claimed that an incident on his first appearance with Steve Allen where he slipped and fell on stage was taken by Carson as a running gag in his Carnac the Magnificent bit (which was a rewrite of Allen's Question Man and a similar bit comedy writer Bob Arbogast did on LA disc jockey DIck Whitingill's show)--died at his Caldwell, NJ home:

Tom Wolper

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Dec 11, 2024, 1:21:54 PM12/11/24
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When I was a kid I had a toy set called Kreskin’s ESP which came in a board game box. It had toy versions of tests parapsychologists were doing at the time.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:35 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:
The veteran mentalist made 88 appearances with Carson, along with over 100 appearances each with Mike Douglas, Merv and Regis and Kathie Lee, appearances on many other shows and his own Canadian/syndicated series "The Amazing World of Kreskin"--he claimed that an incident on his first appearance with Steve Allen where he slipped and fell on stage was taken by Carson as a running gag in his Carnac the Magnificent bit (which was a rewrite of Allen's Question Man and a similar bit comedy writer Bob Arbogast did on LA disc jockey DIck Whitingill's show)--died at his Caldwell, NJ home:

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Doug Eastick

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Dec 11, 2024, 8:38:11 PM12/11/24
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When I was a kid growing up in Canada, kreskin was prime time TV and we watched too much of it. 




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Tom Wolper

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Bob Jersey

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Dec 12, 2024, 8:08:21 PM12/12/24
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His near-me connexion... extended family in the Christmas City (2011): https://www.mcall.com/2011/09/17/the-amazing-kreskin-honed-skills-in-lehigh-valley/ (link)
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