Excerpt from Genii Magazine
by David Reed Brown

The Shows
...John Cassidy stole the show with his comedy balloon act. His frenetic character blows up animal balloons by mouth, literally at a Guinness World Record pace (check the 2002 edition if you're not convinced). As an audience we were laughing so hard that breathing necame difficult. Cassidy's comedy and banter is sheer genius -- he's almost a balloon animal himself. His climax of jumping into a giant six foot diameter balloon (blown up by a leaf blower) to find a spectator's chosen card is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. His character changes as he enters the balloon and his many antics are hilarious. John says he nearly scared trick-or-treaters to death this year by staying inside the balloon and pressing his face against it as they came to the door. He brought the house down with a standing ovation. John Cassidy needs to be seen on national television. Comedy Central, PAX, and NBC are you listening? (Late on Sunday, Cassidy turned Hitchcock into a 9-foot high balloon version of Eugene Burger, which McBride cleverly named "Hugene" Can you say Burger meets Ghostbusters' Staypuff Marshmallow Man? He was walking around the hotel complete with "yellow cotton thread" -- truly a sight to behold with Scott's voice booming through the halls.)...