How did a self-professed refugee from the Summer of Love wind up entertaining the biggest movers and shakers in Corporate America?  “I have no idea,” Larry is quick to admit.  “But every time I appeared on I.V., people would ask me to perform at their corporate events.  Then I realized that I have a lot in common with the Captains of Industry—we’re the same age, we grew up in the same times, we relate to the same things.”

He began his performing career at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, a private club for magicians.  He was somewhat apprehensive about presenting his mix of comedy and magic at such a dignified forum for magicians, but, his satirical advertising pitch for the "Famous Magicians School" was an immediate success with even the most diehard magicians.

In no time at all Larry found himself in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and Lake Tahoe, performing with the likes of Sammy Davis, Jr., Ann-Margret, and The Pointer Sisters.  This led to television shows with his zany assistants, the Flying Cavettis, and it was an appearance with this stage troupe which garnered Larry his first Emmy nomination as a performer.

“Eventually, I realized that if I wanted to do a show I thought was funny, I was going to have to produce it myself,” Larry says.  He formed his own company, Sleightly Askew Productions, and PAXtv jumped at the chance to have Larry as their “magic franchise”.  The first episode of “Madcap Magic” garnered the highest ratings the new network had ever received for an original program.

Larry is delighted that Corporate America has so enthusiastically embraced his peculiar mix of magic and comedy.  "Stand-up comedy was the big thing in the last century; the new millenium is going to be about visual performers.  I’ve got stuff in mind that’s unimaginable."  Does this mean Larry Wilson is going to be the next Houdini?  "Oh, no," he's quick to say.  "All that stuff with handcuffs and chains I leave to the pros... like Dennis Rodman."