RIP to James Randi/The Amazing Randi who played himself in a 1978 episode called "The Magician".

He had a career of being a mainstream magician in the 50s. By the 1970s, he started a new career of exposing psychics and TV Evangelicals as frauds. Among his most famous adversaries were Uri Gellar and Peter Popoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html

I was saddened to hear this.

He was a brilliant magician and escape artist in his day. One of the greatest at exposing scams, frauds and fakes. I enjoyed his spats with Sylvia Browne with her dancing around accepting his $1M challenge to prove genuine psychic abilities.

I was a huge fan of his. I loved his fake psychic busting and his appearanced on Johnny Carson.

Toward the end of his life he got mixed up in some twisted personal stuff which sickened me but I try to ignore that when I think about his legacy.