Magician's Insurance Policy can be a very entertaining trick if you dress it up and play the "Magician in Trouble." Talk about how the card trick you are about to attempt is so hard that you had to buy insurance in case it fails. Show the folded up policy and place it on the tale or give it to a spectator to hold for you. You are proficient with cards so you can easily f _ r _ e
a card. For the person you bring up on stage to select the card I would choose someone with lots of personality, maybe a bubbly female. You can bring several people up to help to make it all play bigger. Try to choose friendly people with personality, but not anyone who people know is a close friend of yours. Ask the crowd to give your magical assistants a nice round of applause. Ask their names. Talk to them and ask them about themselves. Maybe joke with them. Give them each something to do. (One chooses the card, another shuffles the deck after the card is "chosen", a third holds the insurance policy.)
Then go into your act. You can fail to get the right card several times (e.g. try reading the spectator's mind, but fail; try cutting to the card or doing a hot shot or some other move to pop it out of the deck, but fail to get the right card; pull a card out of your shoe, and it's the wrong card; palm off a card and reach into the spectator's pocket and "pull out a card," but it's the wrong card). You can really milk it - just use your imagination. For example, when you try to read the spectator's mind and they tell you that you failed to name the correct card, ask: "Are you saying that the _____ of ______ is the wrong card?" When they say yes, you could ask, "Well - If I promise to give you 50 bucks after the show, would it still be the wrong card?" You could have book up there and pretend like you are trying to remember how to do the trick, by picking it up and looking in it, saying something like, "Hmmmm, let me see, the secret to this trick was on page 105 I think..." etc. Finally, after failing several times, act like you have completely failed and have the spectator who "selected" the card to announce to everyone what the card was. Then ask for the Magician's Insurance Policy, open it up part way and read some of the funny lines that are written on it, or have the spectator who was holding the policy read them. Finally, open up the insurance policy all the way to reveal a big color picture of the card. Act relieved and say something like you sure are glad you bought insurance. Ask the crowd to give your helpers a big round of applause for helping. This routine could last up to 5 minutes or even more if you play it up. You can purchase these Magician Insurance Policies for cheap online.