Gary "Gazzo" Osbourne (born 1960) is a British street magician. Osbourne moved to the United States in the 1980s, where he befriended Walter Irving Scott, also known as The Phantom. He was entrusted with Scott's biography and life's work at card cheating and sleights.
Gazzo suffered a stroke on 21 March 2023 while performing at Mallory Square in Key West, Florida, two days before his 63rd birthday.
At the 2025 FISM World Championship of Magic in Turin, Italy, Gazzo was billed to perform street magic, deliver a 90-minute lecture, and serve as a guest judge for the Street Performer Competition.
He has published several magic-related books, manuscripts and DVDs. * â a book co-authored with Simon Jackson and Gazzo Macee (2004) focused on Gazzo's street performance techniques. * â review of The Art of Krowd Keeping, a book about Gazzo's crowd-management methods by Danny Hustle and James E. Wells.
Gazzo has released several instructional videos and lectures on magic performance, many of which are distributed by Penguin Magic and Vanishing Inc.: * â a 2016 lecture including live footage from his performance at the Magic Castle. * * * *
Gazzo appeared on the seventh episode of ', where he performed his rendition of cups and balls for Penn & Teller to win an opportunity to open their show in Las Vegas. Though the duo knew how the trick was done, they praised Gazzo for his rendition of the trick, stating that he did it "perfectly" and "better than us".