I was driving home the other day, and I was thinking about the strait jacket escape. In the past I’ve done the Strait Jacket Escape with 50 Feet of Chain. Many routines are done against a clock but I like the idea of doing it against someone else doing something (completing a task). It sets up a head to head sort of challenge. My buddies Scotty Walsh and Steve The Pretty Good both did that in their routines.
The routine I was thinking about would be:
- There’s a box or container of some sort that has a lock in it.
- $100 is put into the container and locked.
- The key is mixed with other non-working keys.
- I’m put into the strait jacket.
- I have to get out before someone from the audience find the correct key and opens the box.
- I get out when there it one key left.
- The final key that they didn’t try opens the box, and I get to keep the $100
- I offer them a 2nd place prize, which is another box with a lock.
- They pick any key they already tried and it opens that box, inside is $5 that they can keep!
I think it reads a bit more convoluted than it flows, or how I think it will flow.
I need to go out and try it out and start figuring out if it works or doesn’t.
-Louie
PS: There’s an essay in one of my older lecture notes about how I created my comedy escape The Straight Suit.