Here's a great act…"great," in part because he's the only guy who does it. His name is Tom Noddy and he invented what he calls Bubble Magic. He comes out and blows soap bubbles.
His first appearance on TV with his Bubble Magic may have been on a show I wrote in the early eighties. I recall that we had a lot of tech problems figuring out how to light him so that his handiwork was visible on camera…and it was also necessary to rearrange the studio air conditioning so that none of it blew onto the stage. The crew rigged little panels to funnel the air towards the studio audience and away from the performance area. Shortly after, The Tonight Show booked Tom — because they'd seen him on our show, I think — and their director called our director to find out how we'd handled it. This clip may be that Tonight Show appearance.
In any case, it's just a sampler of a much longer act that Tom still performs all around the world. I need to drop the guy a line and find out when he's blowing this way because I'd love to see it again and, of course, see how he's built on it in the last quarter-century. And now, we are proud to present a little more than two minutes of Tom Noddy and his Bubble Magic…
