MARC AND LINDSAY'S CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT


I think the monkey should come out onstage for each trick wearing a different outfit.

I think the fact that you would have to have an assitant backstage to help your assistant with quick changes complicates matters.

Well, there should definitely be someone backstage to help the monkey with his quick changes.

I think they would resent not being first assistant...you know...since it's being filled by a monkey.

She'd understand.  She would respect the chimp's role.

Very understanding of her.  I hope you pay her well.

I will pay her exceptionally well.  Not as well as the monkey, but she wouldn't have to know that.

What is the monkey going to do with a paycheck?

BUY BANANAS, OF COURSE.

You've got this whole thing figured out.

Could you imagine someone explaining what they do to the DVD documentary crew?  "I am a quick change assistant for the monkey in Marc van Bulck's magic show."  That's just layers of humiliation.

And you enjoy it.

Yes.  I would be sitting in the back room, counting money, and giggling evilly.

And every night the monkey locks the assistant in her cage with some hay and a bowl of water.

I think the assistant should get locked in the water torture cell while the monkey parades around in a dress, looking a little tarty, and the assistant is panicking and looking angry while she's holding her breath, pounding on the glass.

Okay...I think you just wrote yourself out of your own magic show, but I appreciate the use of the word "tarty."

No, I would be the one talking to the audience while the monkey parades around and occasionally mimics my flamboyant arm movements.

And you still want a boy monkey?

Yes.  I think that's absolutely necessary.  Monkey in drag.  For the magic show.

So, now all you need is the monkey...to go out to breakfast with you tomorrow.

I know.

:-(

-Marc

(and Lindsay)