Juggler Michael Rayner thrills young audience members at LCF Library

1/16

Comic juggler Michael Rayner balances a wheel barrow on his chin while knocking a tennis racquet between two sticks to the amazement of a room of young children at a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

2/16

Very expressive comic juggler Michael Rayner spins a cheeseburger on a spinning umbrella during a performance for a group of young children at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

3/16

Children laugh a lot during a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

4/16

Comic juggler Michael Rayner, who asked 3-year-old Isabelle Lee, of La Canada to toss him his tennis racquet to juggle it, submits his juggling stick to her as she reaches for it instead of tossing the racquet at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

5/16

Comic juggler Michael Rayner uses two sticks to knock a wooden tennis racquet back and forth without dropping it and finishes a trick running it under one of his legs La Cañada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

6/16

Olive Lee, 9, of Montrose, is given an opportunity to try and juggle a diabolo and tries to spin it through her legs at a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

7/16

Using the World Cup as a theme, comic juggler Michael Rayner for the first time juggles soccer balls at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

8/16

For a child very unhappy she didn’t get a chance to be a guest performer during this act, comic juggler Michael Rayner asks her to help him pull a big straw from the hat of Biggy Small at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

9/16

Young children watch comic juggler Michael Rayner balance a wheel barrow on his chin at La Cañada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

10/16

Comic juggler Michael Rayner balances one of the shoes of the children from the audience on his nose at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

11/16

A hatchet, bowling ball, and a Pillsbury Dough Boy is juggled at a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

12/16

Comic juggler Michael Rayner performs for a group of children at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

13/16

14/16

Betsy Bourckel, 3, of Montrose, tells comic juggler Michael Rayner her name before she tosses a cheeseburger onto a spinning umbrella at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

15/16

Ava Choi, 7, of La Crescenta, with her twin sister Kayla watching, tries to catch a small bucket with another small bucket with hopes of winning a prize at a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

16/16

Audience children sit in amazement at a performance by comic juggler Michael Rayner at La CaÃ±ada Flintridge Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Rayner, who describes himself as a post-modern vaudevillian, has been on the David Letterman Show, the Late Late Show, and Sesame Street/ (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

By Sara Cardine

June 20, 2018 3 PM PT

Children were treated to a moving spectacle Tuesday as juggler-comedian Michael Rayner — who’s appeared on “Late Night with David Letterman,” “America’s Got Talent” and “Sesame Street’ — brought his kinetic talents to the La Cañada Flintridge Library.

Performing before an enthusiastic crowd, Rayner balanced a dizzying array of found objects on his chin, including a wheelbarrow, and juggled a hatchet, bowling ball and plastic figure of the Pillsbury Doughboy.

“One of these could bruise me, one of these could cut me and one of these could be a biscuit,” Rayner joked.

Kids big and small were called on to assist, invent new tricks or try their hands at activities like tossing and flipping plastic ice buckets into one another. Books and DVDs from the library book sale became coveted prizes for those who successfully completed challenges, or gave it their sincere best.

For the pièce de rèsistance, the North Hollywood father of two handed a cheeseburger to 3-year-old Betsy Bourckel of Montrose and asked her to throw it at him as he spun a parasol. Catching the burger vertically, Rayner made it spin around the parasol’s exterior circumference before flipping the parasol upside down and repeating the trick on the inside.

“Betsy, I’ve done this on ‘The Late, Late Show with James Corden’ and I’ve done this on ‘America’s Got Talent,’” the juggler told his assistant. “You and Heidi Klum have me in common.”

Rayner’s show “Two Milk Minimum” plays at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank on Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.

sara.cardine@latimes.com

Twitter: @SaraCardine