Andrew Ferguson
Rejecting Your Reality and Substituting My Own Since 1986
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Stevie Starr, the amazing regurgitator was at Mines tonight. Rather cool actually since he was literally just on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. From what I could tell, he really was swallowing all the objects he put in his mouth.
I am by no means a medical professional, but I with a bit of logic and knowledge of human anatomy I suspect that Starr simply has the ability to control his pyloric sphincter, a muscular valve between his stomach and duodenum (a digestive region between the stomach and start of the small intestine), and his lower esophageal sphincter. In short, he can trap object in his duodenum, his stomach, and perhaps even his small intestine and esophagus. Again, this is only my opinion. Regardless, the show was very amazing I would recomend that everyone see it, if given the chance. Starr is very entertaining and knows how to work with the audience. He swallowed everything from a small lightbulb, to a small 8-ball, tacks, rings, a locked lock (which he unlocked after removing the key and swallowing it seperatly from the lock, then relocked with a ring inside, removed the key and brought back up), sugar (which he brought back up dry), and even gold fish (which were still alive). Check out the gallery for more pictures of this truely amazing man from Scotland!
To all of you who replied posting you saw him do these acts and how amazing he is, please understand you are witnessing nothing more than a trained act, done by a trained performance artist. Your theories of this man having extra control over his stomach/esophagus muscles proves nothing more than the fact that you really are not a medical professional. I on the otherhand am a doctor and for those of you who are trying to attempt this with reference to these types of “wild” speculations, please don’t. There is simply no way you can control these types of muscles from a medical point of view. They do not have smiliar structures as voluntairy muscles we are able to control. you cannot “develop” these muscles in the same way either and cannot control them.
But even if you weren’t a medical professional, You must realize some of his acts give away the nature of the authenticity, solely by the types of act alone. If all he did was swallow and regurgitate the object back up, I’d be inclined to believe he was really regurgitating. However, his acts include a variety of mixing and bring back up marked objects on call, and he even swallows a rubics cube, and brings it back up solved. Those types of acts should clearly indicate to you that he really doing what you think he’s doing. Do you honestly think he can swallow a rubics cube, solve it in the dark with out looking at it with what happens to be just s tube of contracting muscle with limited movement biologicaly and brought it back up in under 10 seconds? Please people… Stop making me doubt the intelligence of our kind.
Well, for the rubick cube trick, it is impossible that it solve it, but it is maybe possible that he swallowed a solved cube before the trick and regurgitated it instead of the unsolved one, altrought it would be a hard feat to do, its maybe possible.
So you just slated one theory with what sounded like intelligent rabble, are you not going to offer a theory? Or is it magic!
[...] Posted: Aug 7, 2006 6:27am Quote: On 2006-08-03 08:37, Roslyn wrote: Does he have a website? Website: http://www.ukstars.co.uk/stevie-starr.php Fan site: http://www.steviestarr.com/ More videos: http://www.steviestarr.com/videos_and_photos/stevie_starr_videos_and_photos.php More info/videos: http://www.andrewferguson.net/2005/02/23/stevie-starr-the-regurgitator/ Good Article: http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_11.06.97/theatre/comedy6.html Another good article: http://www.andrewferguson.net/2006/02/22/stevie-starr/ Quote: On 2006-08-03 08:37, Roslyn wrote: Where is he performing these days? Tour dates: http://www.ukstars.co.uk/starr-dates.php There are a few stunts that he does that to me point to a trick somehow being involved instead of a "talent," such as the swallowing of a mini rubik’s cube and regurgitating it solved, or swallowing a ring and a padlock and a key and having the key come back on the padlock. There is obviously no way to make your stomach or any internal muscles do those feats, so there must be a switch somewhere or something – don’t ask me what it is or how it happens because I have no idea, but I think there is more here than meets the eye. It’s a fantastic act, but I have to wonder what is up his sleeve, or down his throat or whatever… [...]
[...] Back to Stevie Starr, found this cool review of his act: http://www.steviestarr.com/stevie_starrs_regurgitation_act.php http://www.andrewferguson.net/2005/02/23/stevie-starr-the-regurgitator/ (goes a little into how he does it) I’ve seen the smoke and coin trick he does but not the full version of either. [...]
No, he obviously swallowed a solved Rubix cube prior to going on stage.. then he swallowed the unsolved cube and regurgitated the solved one.
After watching the video a bunch, I dont think he’s swallowing anything actually. Watch when he swallows the baloon.. you see it on the right side of his mouth for a split second.. like he pushed it there and somehow can store it in his cheek.