Born and raised in South Brunswick, New Jersey, Denny More was so shy and introverted as a youngster, his parents thought there was something "wrong" with him.  Well, they were right.  
     There IS something wrong with him, but that's beside the point.  At the age of eight, Denny came across a copy of his older brother Frank's Johnson-Smith catalog.   Johnson-Smith was a mail-order house out of Chicago and still exists today.  At the time, they specialized in novelty and gag items.  You know, whoppee cushions, joy buzzers, fake vomit, classy items like that.  But the section of the catalog that caught Denny's attention was the magic section.  Yep, there was a whole section of magic tricks you could send away for.  So, he'd save his allowance and send away for a trick.  He'd practice it over and over again until he could do it blindfolded.  When he perfected it, he'd send away for another one.  At a time when most of his friends were outside playing baseball, Denny would be locked up in the basement of his house practicing his magic.  But something else was happening.  It's no fun being able to perform magic unless you can show it to someone.  So, Denny was coming out of his shell.  He now wanted to show the magic he had learned to everyone.  He was becoming more outgoing.  In fact, he was becoming annoying. 
     Five years later, at the age of thirteen, Denny was showing his latest tricks to friends of the family's, Tony and Rose Delre.  All of a sudden, Tony said,  "Hey, I just got a great idea.  My Elks lodge is holding a Christmas party (you could say "Christmas" back then) in a couple of weeks for a group of orphans.  Why don't you come and perform a show for them?"  Well, for one thing, Denny didn't have show.  He just had a  bunch of neat tricks he could do.  But he thought about it.  He did have a couple of weeks to put a show together....hmmmmmmm.  He agreed.  
     So, on December 7, 1967, Denny More performed professionally (he was paid fifteen dollars) for the first time at The Elks Lodge in Kendall Park, New Jersey.  The kids AND the adults loved it, and so did Denny.  He was hooked.  He knew at that moment that this is what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
Denny picked up a nice little following quickly and continued to perform for fraternal organizations and small corporate events. A year later, he made his first television appearance on The Alan Burke Show.  Alan Burke was sort of the Bill O'Reilly of his day, a foul-mouthed, acid-tongued, cigar-smoking, no-holds barred kind of TV host.  He was fascinated by this little teenage boy who could make a selected card vanish, only to reappear inside an orange...who could "swallow" a small ball of twine and five razor blades, only to regurgitate them, now threaded on the twine...and who could escape from a regulation, heavy-canvas strait-jacket.   The appearance was a success and led to other New York TV shots including The Skitch Henderson Show and The Joe Franklin Show.
     A segment of his show back then included so-called experiments in E.S.P., Extra Sensory Perception.  Denny was amazed that although nobody in the audience thought the magic tricks were real, many believed that the E.S.P. feats were.  Grown people actually believing that he could reads minds and project thoughts.  It became obvious that this was where the market was.  So, Denny phased out the magic tricks and started dedicating his entire show to these mental illusions.
     In his senior year of high school, Denny signed up for a night course which promised to teach it's students the art of hypnosis.  The teacher was Norman Ross.  At the beginning of the first class, Ross asked each student (there were only about eight of them) why they were taking the course.  Everyone was more interested in self-hypnosis for reasons like quitting smoking, overeating, fear of flying etc.  However, when Denny stood up, he announced that he was taking the course because he wanted to be a stage hypnotist.  Norman Ross' face lit up, because that's what HE was, a stage hypnotist.  After class, the two of them talked and hit it off instantly.  Ross agreed to teach Denny the true workings of stage hypnosis, but informed him that it wouldn't be easy.  Denny would have to attend every one of Ross' shows for a two-year period.  For the next two years, Denny followed Ross around like a lost puppy.  He attended every show.  After each show, they'd both go to a local diner where Ross would dissect the performance, explaining every detail to Denny.  It paid off.  Before he was twenty years old, Denny More had developed his own hypnosis show, and was on his way with, what proved to be, his most popular show.
     In the mid-seventies, Denny was hired to work a club in East Brunswick, New Jersey called Charley's Uncle.  He was hired to do his hypnosis show for a month of Sundays.  He was held over for three years.  There was a band that worked at Charley's back at that time as well.  It was The Richie Sambora Band.  Yep, the same Rickie Sambora who went to Bon Jovi fame.
     One night, at the club, a fellow by the name of Joe Miller came by to see the show.  Miller was a musician in an oldies group called Remember When.  After the show, Denny and Joe were introduced to each other by a mutual friend.  The two spoke briefly and that was pretty much it.  About twenty years later, Denny's phone rang.  Amazingly, it was Joe Miller.  Even more amazingly, Denny remembered him.  Miller informed Denny that he was now an entertainment agent, and that he believed he could get him a lot of work.  Miller told Denny he should really be working comedy clubs.  Denny was like, "Yeah, whatever", never really expecting Miller to actually come through with any work.  But, about a month later, the phone rang again.  It was Miller calling with a slew of dates.  The two worked together from that day on, also becoming good friends.  They are still good friends today, and in fact, still often work together.
     Denny took the comedy clubs by storm, becoming one of the top specialty acts on the circuit.  He was soon working the top clubs in the country including The Improvs, Rascal's, Bonkerz, Funny Bone's, Zanie's, and was the first comic-hypnotist to ever work Caroline's on Broadway.
     A dying breed today, in the mid-eighties, trash talk shows were the rage of daytime TV.  One of the wildest of them all, The Jerry Springer Show called Denny to come in and be a part of an episode entitled "The Springer Sex Circus”.  Taped in his Chicago studio, Springer was thrilled with Denny's cavalier, devil-may-care attitude toward hypnosis and immediately invited him to be a part of his Spring Break With Jerry Springer Show taped in Jamaica.  It was a wild one.  To this day, considered a Springer classic.
     Over the years, Denny has shared the stage with people like Anthony Newley, Malcolm MacDowell, Emmy Lou Harris, Melissa Ethridge, Pat Cooper and others.  Today, he has combined his years of experience onstage into one big show.  An evening with Denny More includes stand-up comedy, astounding feats of E.S.P., hilarious and amazing magic and off-the-hook hypnosis.  He currently keeps busy throughout the year working for casinos, corporate events, colleges, theatres and comedy clubs.