Wes Barker: Stunt Magician

“Why don’t you want to have sex with me?” ~ Wes Barker

This past Saturday night (March 8th), the Trueblue Magazine team went to Vancouver to see the amazing Wes Barker live in action.

It was such an amazing night! For those unfamiliar, Wes Barker is a very original and entertaining Magician Comedian act that we were lucky to experience.

Opening up for Wes was John Cullen, school teacher! Don’t think for one second that John had lame PG jokes; John made the whole audience laugh at the expense of his students and drunk girls that like McD’s pizza and phone games. When Mr. Cullen left, the audience was roaring for more.
What A Class Act!
When Wes came out, the audience went wild – something I just have never seen before. Wes had to wait nearly an entire minute for the applause to cease.

He thanked everyone for coming and noted how it was a packed theatre – 1200 people – and his biggest show yet! Wes started off with a joke about men with big trucks. Specifically, the ones who think they are tough macho men and how they believe they should have every girl who they set eyes on.

It was not only funny because it was true, but also because he used various voices to perfectly illustrate his point.
One of Trueblue Magazine’s guests, Heather, was chosen to do one of Wes’ tricks. It was a combination of ‘ask the audience‘ and ‘ask Heather‘.

Wes asked 5 questions: 1) Would you sleep with me? (Heather said no, she wants to be married), 2) What would it take to sleep with me? (the answer was 10 shots of whiskey), 3) Who would I have to be for you to sleep with me? (Will Farrell), 4) Something about condoms (answer: pink Durex), and finally, 5) What position should we do it in? (doggy)

Such a great act by Wes!

Mr. Barker went on to tell jokes about his times in Australia and his drunk adventures in a hostel. Embarrassed as he was, the audience loved it! He spoke about his pink “fight me” tshirt which got him in lots of trouble over the years and his lust for travel.

“Wes was absolutely hilarious, I wasn’t expecting such a great time.” ~ Me (at the end of the night!)

The Verdict!
The venue was laughing the entire night and asking for an encore, unfortunately Wes had to end the show which he received standing ovations. The 5 of us had the time of our lives, and can’t wait to be invited to another event by:

Mr. Wes Barker, Magician Comedian Extraordinaire!

On behalf of the Trueblue Team, I want to thank Wes for the high quality entertainment and of course for the press passes and great seats..

Thank you, Wes!

Check out our Interview with Wes Barker from ‘Issue 3′ - TrueBlue

On a scale of one to ten, how hot would you say you are? Based on that, what’s you’re pick-up success rate? If you’ve tried and tested the validity of your answers, come out and share your results with a roomful of disbelieving viewers in exchange for some seriously questionable stories, relatable adult humour, mystifying magic tricks, and kind of kooky stunts.

Having recently appeared on The Comedy Network and sold out the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, Wes comes to Fringe with an endearing and slightly indecent act. As an audience member, there is no way you can avoid getting involved! He’ll try to bond with you by sharing personal anecdotes about women, bar nights, and the pros and cons of being a magician. He keeps the banter conversational, softening up the crowd by flirting with the ladies and taunting their dates. At times he tries to act the tough guy before belittling himself for a laugh, always successfully winning you over.

Last night took some ice-breaking effort on his part as it seemed the crowd was slow to react to his tricks and some of his jokes, but he didn’t give up and eventually they all got used to his pace. He doesn’t give much of his trickery away–it would have been nice to get an explanation as to some of what we saw, especially with regard to the stunt he pulled on me after dragging me on stage. I let it slide, happy to keep a souvenir for it and get out of the spotlight quickly, but he sticks around afterwards if you insist on needing answers. If you just want to slip him your number, he won’t mind–seriously, male or female you’ve got a 10/90 chance am I right Wes? - CVV Magazine