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To find out more about PWs site license subscription options please email pwpubservice. If you have questions or need assistance setting up your account please email pwpubservice. U. S. or 1 8. 18 4. Monday Friday between 5am and 5pm Pacific time for assistance. Keith Barry Wikipedia. Keith Patrick Barry born 2 October 1. Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly. Early lifeeditBorn in Ferrybank, Waterford city, Ireland, Barrys interest in magic began at the age of 1. Magic for the Complete Klutz. Barrys television career began with a series entitled Close Encounters with Keith Barry, which ran from 2. The show originally aired in Europe and has since aired in 2. In 2. 00. 4, Barry performed in a MTV television special entitled Brainwashed. Barry performing a live Christmas special in Europe. Keith Barry Live With Friends featured various celebrities such as magician Billy Mc. Comb, Jim Corr of The Corrs, and The Conway Sisters. Barrys success throughout Europe coupled with his MTV special led to a four year multi special deal with CBS. His first special with CBS debuted on 1. May 2. 00. 6 and was entitled Keith Barry Extraordinary. The special later aired on New Years Eve 2. The CW and on New Years Day 2. TV3 in New Zealand and the Arena channel in Australia. In the Keith Barry Extraordinary special, he performed various illusions and mental feats. In one trick, which he referred to as Black Ops Hypnosis, he made a host from Entertainment Tonight forget that he had torn a specific page from a book and sealed it in an envelope in the span of roughly five minutes. In another, he made a blindfolded man lift his arm when he thought others stopped touching him. Barry first used suggestion to make the man concentrate and lied that he was touching the man. The man imagined the touch and lifted his arm, but Barry and another member of the audience only moved their hand afar. Following a successful Irish tour along with a week in Dublins Vicar Street, Barry and his longtime manager Eamonn Maguire were badly injured in a car crash on the Belfast to Newry road on 1 March 2. Barry suffered severe trauma to his left leg and only returned to the stage later the same year at Vicar Street. A blindfolded Barry performs during a TED Talk in 2. Barrys TED talk is in the top 2. TED Talks of all time and follows from his first ever live stage performance which was at TED in Monterey, California in 2. He returned to TED in 2. On 2. 9 December 2. Barry performed in a live Saturday night prime time special on ITV in the UK titled Keith Barry The Escape Live. The finale of the show featured an escape from a shed rigged with explosives. Barry was tied to a chair with thick ropes by two members of the audience. One of these was Glen Gathard, noted for hoping that Keith Barry would not make it out of the explosion. Participants lit a fuse, started a two minute countdown, and carried the chair into the shed. Workmen hammered additional wood to cover the door and windows from the outside, then left the scene when one minute remained on the countdown. After the countdown was complete, the shed exploded, then the camera changed to reveal Keith safely on top of a gantry some distance away. Barry has performed live on The Ellen De. Generes Show four times and The Paul OGrady Show four times. In February 2. 01. Barry finished a pilot for a new series on The Discovery Channel in the US. The show is called Deception with Keith Barry and the pilot aired in July 2. The show was picked up for a season and premiered on 3. May 2. 01. 1 with 4 one hour shows, Black Ops, Used Car Salesman, Cops and Robbers, and Daring and Dating. The show premiered on 6 October 2. Taiwan, 1 November in Japan, 3 November on Quest in the UK, on 7 December in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, 1. December in Australia and New Zealand and in India February 2. Also in 2. 01. 0 and 2. Keith toured extensively with his live show The Asylum, which finished its run in May 2. On this tour, Keith set the record as the most successful solo act ever to play The Olympia Theatre in Dublincitation needed. On 1. 3 July 2. 01. Keith Barry 8 Deadly Sins show opened to critical acclaim and a standing ovation at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin and ran for 5 weeks, setting new box office records during the runcitation needed. It was followed by a national tour in JanFeb 2. Samsung Installer. Ireland. In June 2. Barry stated his disapproval of TVs late night anti intellectual offering Psychic Readings Live and challenged one of its presenters, Psychic Wayne, to prove his psychic powers. Wayne declined. Barry advised Woody Harrelson for his role as a mentalist in the 2. Now You See Me, and again for its 2. Now You See Me 2. Barry prepped Harrelson for a successful performance on the Late Show with David Letterman during the marketing of the first film. Keiths hit show The Dark Side launched with a 3. JanFeb 2. 01. 3 and continued with a 1. Olympia in Dublin in July 2. On 2. 3 July, Keith took time out to give a talk at the Science Gallery in Dublin and demonstrated the techniques of cold reading and explained how psychics can convince so many people that they can read minds. Keith currently is on TV3 with his show Brain Hacker. Between 2. 01. 5 and 2. Barry starred as the hypnotist on the ITV game show Youre Back in the Room hosted by Phillip Schofield. He is also the hypnotist on the Australian version on Nine Network hosted by Daryl Somers and will also be the hypnotist on the U. S. version later in 2. FOX hosted by Taye Diggs. As an actor, Barry performed in the Open Water episode of CSI Miami in 2. PresentingeditIn 2. Barry hosted the Irish version of Deal or No Deal on TV3. Activism against elderly abuseeditBarrys grandfather, 8. Waterford by burglars in 2. Barry and his father launched a high profile campaign to stamp out abuse against the elderly in their homes, said the government was insulting the elderly and said he would bring the country to a halt1. Pundits referred to the incident in discussions of laws about the actions people can legally take to defend themselves in their homes. ReferenceseditExternal linksedit.