2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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Pete Firman - the man who put the magic back into Comedy - returns to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with a brand new show blending the coolest illusions with pitch perfect comedy to make a faultless hour's entertainment.

With a mind-boggling mastery of magic and illusion, and a consummate capacity for perfectly formed gags, Pete has rapidly become one of the UK's most eminently watchable and totally unique performers both on TV and in his live shows.

Pete Firman first burst onto our television screens as cheeky Northerner 'Tufty' in Monkey Magic (Channel 5). Since then he has travelled the world meeting his magic heroes and performing his own brand of anarchic magic in The Secret World Of Magic (Sky One) and amazed viewers by performing disgusting tricks with animals, cigarettes and big spiky things in Dirty Tricks (Channel 4).

Guest television appearances include The Culture Show (BBC2), Saturday Live Again! and For One Night Only (both ITV1), and helping Justin Lee Collins become a conjuror on The Convention Crasher (Channel 4).

Pete most recently starred in primetime magic show Don't Miss A Trick (BBC1), Derren Brown's 3D Magic Spectacular (CH4) and Jason Manford's Comedy Rocks (ITV1).

He also presents the game shows Stake Out and Wait For It...! for BBC1 and has toured the UK twice, in 2008 with Flim-Flam and with Jokes & Tricks in 2010.

Pete is a published author and his first book, Tricks To Freak Out Your Friends was also released in the USA and is about to go into its second printing.