He was very personable, did big comments and then little asides making light of any thing that seemed not going right, such as a volunteer being really young and not knowing the different suit of the cards. Made light of it without making fun at the persons expense.
He did a running joke of “where are you from” “Oh I was just there yesterday” which seemed real but then when the third person was from somewhere completely different he still said the same thing. This wasn’t one sentence after another but 15, 20 minutes apart with new guests, so you kind of accepted it was just a throwaway line at first but then you realized it was a joke.
Also when he did reveal of a magic trick sometimes he would say, oh wow I nearly always get it right (as if he hadn’t got it) and I did tonight (revealing he got it perfect), so he lead you to believe that he was really close but then you see he was spot on