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Comedian? Magician? Ask the audience

Snubfest booked him as a comedian. The Chicago Magic Lounge booked him as a magician. The crowd just calls him awesome — and after a decade on both sides of that line, Tyler Korso has stopped picking one.

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People ask Tyler the same question everywhere he goes: is he a comedian who does magic, or a magician who does comedy? The honest answer is that he trained hard at both and never saw a reason to rank them. Over ten-plus years that split focus turned into a single, unmistakable act — one that gets booked to headline comedy festivals and to close out magic lounges in the same month.

Onstage that means witty stand-up folded into a genuinely unexpected magic show: objects vanish, stunts get a little dangerous, and the impossible keeps happening to people who swore they were just watching. Voted Magician of the Year by APCA, he has taken that mix through talk-show greenrooms, The Improv Comedy Club, and The Chicago Magic Lounge, and now performs it regularly in theaters and comedy clubs across the country.

He shows up with two tight 45-minute comedy-magic sets and a full 90 minutes of standalone standup, and he reads the room before he decides which version of himself the crowd gets — corporate-clean with a wink for a company dinner, or let-loose and detailed when a club asks him to push it. Same jokes, same tricks, different volume.

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Tyler Korso
10+Years on the road
150Shows in a busy year
2Cases the whole act fits in
0Bits that need an apology
Where Tyler's Played

APCA Magician of the Year · Snubfest Comedy Festival · The Chicago Magic Lounge · The Improv Comedy Club · National talk shows