02x06 - Now THAT'S Bunny!

[bunniefuu]

From the Penn & Teller Theater
in Las Vegas, Nevada,

here's out host, Jonathan Ross.

Thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.

You're very kind.
Thank you so much. Thank you.

Welcome to Penn & Teller, Fool Us.

The show with more smoke and mirrors
than Snoop Dogg's dressing room.

Tonight, we have some
of the best illusionists in the world

trying to earn a spot on Vegas'
longest running magic show.

To earn that prize,
they have to fool the stars of that show

and indeed, this one as well.

They've been working together
for over 40 years,

which makes them older
than the combined age of One Direction.

Will you please welcome
the fabulous Penn and Teller.

Gentlemen.

- Teller, as always, such a pleasure.
- Sir.

Take a seat, gentlemen.

The show can begin.

Okay, let's get this started.

Now, it's time to meet
our first potential fooler.

I'm Jay Sankey,
and I'm from Toronto, Canada.

I think, like a lot of illusionists,
I'm a bit disillusioned.

And I find that one
of the best ways for me to get in touch

with, you know, wonder and mystery
and all that is teaching magic.

If we don't share the real secrets
with anybody,

magic will be dead in a generation.

And so that's when I really started
producing instructional videos

for my magic fans all over the world.

I've also been really influenced
by the surreal artists,

people like Magritte,

Banksy, Salvador Dalí.

I think it would be great if everybody
who watches this show

ultimately is inspired to learn
more about the art and science of magic.

I also hope I don't die onstage.

Will you please welcome,
Mr. Jay Sankey.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you.
What a treat to be here.

Good evening.
My name is Jay Sankey,

and I've been lucky enough
to be performing

and creating magic for more than 30 years.

And people often ask me what are
the influences behind the tricks,

where do I get my inspiration.

And I get it from everywhere.

But one thing that has inspired
a lot of my illusions over the years

is the real magic of fire.

I love fire. I love the way it looks,
love the way it smells,

the way it tastes maybe not so much,
you know.

I learned that the hard way once,

but fire can do
so many really cool things.

Here's a very simple example.

We know that off the flame comes heat.

And with heat,
if I hold the pack over it,

watch what happens, just a little bit,

a card will float right up out
of the pack.

Now, that's just a very simple example.

Let's up the ante here.

We're gonna go from cards
and cardboard to something, to metal.

And for this,
I'm gonna be using a stapler,

or as we call it in Canada,
a lethal weapon, okay.

I'm gonna use this.
I'm gonna use this in just a second.

Now, how many people here,
a show of hands,

how many people have ever seen,
maybe in an old movie,

a set table with a tablecloth

and forks and knives
and spoons and everything,

and somebody yanks out the tablecloth
and everything stays on.

How many people?
Yeah, of course.

I'm gonna try to do that now
in a very kind of down-to-earth way.

But instead of a tablecloth,
I'm gonna use a couple of cards.

The cards I'm gonna use are
gonna be the seven of hearts,

okay, and I'm gonna use
the queen of clubs.

I'm also gonna use a dollar bill,
all right.

A dollar bill here.

Now, I'm gonna put the dollar bill
between the two cards

and I'm gonna do this very slowly
'cause I know magicians

have a way of moving very quickly,
and it's suspicious.

I want you to see the bill
is truly between the two, okay.

To make it... Now, of course,
if I tried to pull the dollar bill out

from between the two, it'd be easy now.

But if I take the stapler and put
a staple between all three,

now it's gonna be a lot harder.

Jonathan, would you come
over for a second?

And if you can come on my right side,
please.

I think you're gonna find
that a slightly better view.

Thank you so much.

I know the people at the back...

I know the people at the back,
they can see everything,

but of course, they can't see the staple,
so I'm gonna have you help me out here.

Would you please feel the staple?

- Is that a real staple?
- That is a real staple.

Okay, now watch.

A little heat, this is again
the magic of fire.

A little heat and I'm hoping
I'll be able to take the bill and...

- Wow.
- Just like that.

- Now look, are there any tears?
- There are no...

- Any tears?
- There are no tears at all.

And are these two cards... Look at this.

Are they truly... Examine that.
You can take it in your hands.

They are stapled together.

They are completely adjoined.

A small miracle,
thanks to fire, a small miracle.

Now, let's take it a step further.
I'm gonna show you a card trick,

but it's not a card trick.

It looks like a card trick,

but it's actually
a public service announcement.

It is. The announcement's very simple.

It's simply this, do not...

When you're gonna work out, always make
sure you warm up before you work out.

Now, do me a favor,
separate the two cards.

- Pull 'em apart?
- Pull 'em apart.

This proves once again that they are...

I need to work out more.

- Okay.
- There we go.

They are... And I'm gonna
actually remove the staple as well,

because I'm gonna have the two cards
for your entertainment pleasure,

they're gonna exercise together. Watch.

Both cards, they go down,
they touch their toes.

Kinda weird, I know, I know.

I'm a Canadian, what can I say?
They go back, they touch their heels.

They bend in half, kind
of going cross-eyed, I guess, Jonathan,

you could say, and back this way.

Now, notice they're working out,
but they forgot to warm up.

So this is the risk of tearing muscles.

Sometimes, even the risk...

I don't like this part,
of tearing ligaments.

Now, my job as a magician
the way I see it, Jonathan,

is to try to restore things,
to put the pieces back together.

So look, I'm gonna take
a bunch of the pieces

and I'm gonna just heat them up,
little bit there.

And in fact, I'm also gonna use
some static electricity.

Luckily, I've got enough hair
on my arms, like a baby gorilla,

so what I can do is hopefully take
the pieces,

take about half in each hand,

rub a little bit there,
a little bit there,

and we should see that now, yes,

the cards are still scarred
and they're still hurt,

but, ladies and gentlemen,
you can see both cards are now

totally back together
and completely examinable.

- Wow.
- For you.

- Wow.
- Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you, most kind.

Thank you so much, guys.

Thank you.

Now, the last trick I'm gonna do is a bit
of a psychic connection between you and I.

- Well, I felt it.
- Okay, I know, it didn't last very long.

Sorry about that part.
I know, I know.

But, and I'm gonna use something
that's kind of unusual.

Along with the cards,
I'm actually gonna also use...

I got it down here.
Sorry, where'd I put that?

Oh, here it is here.

- It's a sparkler.
- Okay.

Now, I don't know if you...

Where did you just pull
this out of, before I touch it?

I know.
Let's say somewhere in the back.

We'll just leave it...
Leave it very generic like that.

Well, I say you've got to get it through
customs somehow, haven't you?

Oh, nice, nice.

Don't even bring up
the customs thing, please.

I'm gonna have them take
a peek at the card.

Now, very important.
A lot of magicians do this.

I want you to notice two things.

Number one is the cards are all different.

I want you to see that they're
all different, my cards.

It's a lot easier
if they're the same card.

A lot less practice, believe me.
It really is.

Okay, so look,
I'm gonna spread out the cards.

- Okay.
- I want you to touch any one you want.

- Any one?
- Any one, doesn't matter.

- Okay, how about that one there?
- Okay, now I'm not even gonna remove

the card from the pack.

I'm gonna leave it sticking
out of the middle of the pack.

We're not gonna take it out,

but I'm gonna ask you
to take a quick peek.

- Okay.
- A quick peek at the card.

- Remember it, keep it in mind.
- Okay, got it.

- Will you remember it?
- Yes.

- The suit, the number, everything?
- Yes. Yes, all of it.

- Okay, all...
- I remember everything about that card.

Now watch, let's try this.

I'm gonna take the sparkler.

- He's thinking about the card.
- Yes.

They were all different.

Here we go.
There we go.

I know you want to sing
Happy Birthday, right?

You immediately want to sing.

Let's see, I'm gonna try to find his card.

I'm gonna take and stick it right through.

Oh, we're doing it.
We're... Yes, yes, look.

It's going through the middle of the deck,

and I'm gonna try
to see if I can pull his one,

it's burning...
It's burning my fingers.

It's right... Like this, look.
Look, look, look.

Burnt, burnt right through every card
except for one card.

One card.
What was the card?

The card was the jack of spades.

- You're sure?
- I'm pretty sure.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think I found...

- The jack of spades.
- Wow.

- Thank you so much.
- Jay Sankey, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you.
Thanks a lot.

- Thank you.
- Okay.

So, you know how this goes, Jay.

Penn and Teller
are gonna have a little chat.

They're gonna think about it.

And while they're thinking,
some of the things we just saw you do

aren't like your standard tricks.
They're things that you have invented.

Yeah, inventing is a...
I mean, I love performing,

but ever since I was a very young kid,
inventing has been a big part of who I am.

So, yeah, everything here
is one of my original tricks.

I'm not a big fan of sort of using
other people's magic.

If you were to fool Penn and Teller,
what does that do to your standing?

Well, it super exciting. It's awesome.

You go... I mean, these guys,
yeah, they've seen it all,

they've done it all,
and they even have a show where,

you know, they see so many magicians try.

So if you can pull it off,

frankly,
I think it might be a bit of a fluke.

Okay, they have a consensus,
whether or not it's right,

we'll now find out.

- Penn.
- Well, you know, one of the things that

magicians hardly ever bother doing,

and it's to their detriment,
is giving an overall theme.

Just putting a candle in the middle
of the table and saying,

"This all has to do with fire,"
is fabulous.

- Already we love you.
- Thank you.

I think you know
that we know a rising card,

although you adding the candle
to it is really, really nice.

The staple thing
of the bill between the cards,

we saw a little bit of larceny
at the beginning of this that...

That helped you do that trick.

"Helped" is maybe too weak a word.

Had you do that trick
but it was beautiful.

I loved the fact that you created it.

One of the things I loved the most
is I love how you look

when you show off the hair on your arm.

You know what I'm talking about.

I loved that very much.

- It's a good...
- Is this...

Is this a private moment
that we should...

Oh, it's a private, yes.

It's a nice pose, isn't it?

He's being very gentle.

You looked very, very good
when you posed like that.

- Thanks.
- It's very attractive...

- Thank you.
- Especially the way

you held it out just like this.

- Remember that?
- I try, brother, I try.

Yeah, I remember that, yeah.

We have an idea that the Jedis
were working with you on the...

- On the final sparkler trick.
- A little bit.

And I'm so happy
that I can say this on TV,

but I'm very happy

and maybe other people
in your life are, too,

with the way you masked the gash.

- Whoa.
- It was beautiful...

- Whoa.
- The way you masked the gash.

- Whoa, there's a phrase.
- We loved the whole routine.

- It was really, really wonderful.
- Thank you.

We don't feel anything completely
fooled us, but boy, we loved ya.

Thank you so much, thank you.

- Wonderful job.
- Very kind, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Penn.
Thank you, Teller.

Wow, so, Jay,
let me just check.

You're fairly confident
that the things that Penn said

culminating in you masking a gash,
he's all aboveboard.

- He knows what you did.
- Right.

And they busted you.

Yeah, my sense is that
he's totally in the ballpark.

You know, we could be more articulate
and more specific,

but my sense is if Penn and Teller feel
they're in the ballpark,

they're probably in the ballpark.

They're probably right there
in the diamond. Ladies and gentlemen.

- Thank you, thank you so much.
- Let's say thank you to Jay Sankey

- for a great performance.
- Thank you.

But you didn't manage to fool them.

- Jay Sankey, ladies and gentlemen.
- Thank you, guys.

Thank you, guys.

Let's see if our next act
is up to the task.

I'm Greg Wilson,
and, well, I literally grew up

in the world of magic and show business.

My mom and dad were the pioneers of magic
on television back in the 60s and 70s.

And I actually started performing
when I was about six years old on TV.

That was the debut performance of our son,

Greg Wilson.

Thank you very much.

Of course, when I was younger I wanted
to be the cutting edge cool guy

doing all the new, hip, new stuff.

And then I realized that the classics
are really cool.

I'm taking the older art form of magic

and the older style
of wardrobe and whatnot

and adapting it to the modern audience.

And giving it a little bit of a twist

to make it fun and entertaining.

Our next magician is a second
generation performer.

His dad performed in a show called
Magic of Allakazam.

A wonderful place,
which today I believe we call Istanbul.

Will you please welcome
Mr. Greg Wilson.

- Hello, Penn.
- How are you?

Hi, Teller. Thank you so much
for having me on the show.

Would you help me out
by personalizing this handkerchief,

by putting your autograph or making
some kind of mark that makes it unique,

one of a kind?
I'll be back and get it in a moment.

- Okay.
- I'm going to show you

my favorite illusion.

It was created by my father, Mark Wilson.

Let me show you my personal version.

Here we go.

May I have the handkerchief?

Thank you so much.

I'll be back.

Wow!

How bout that, ladies and gentlemen?

Wow. Mark, lovely to meet you.

Nani, great, great job.

I saw that when you guys walked
out at the end, which was a lovely end,

Penn and Teller leapt to their feet.

So these guys,
you must have known their work.

Yes, of course.

So fabulous to meet you both.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mark and Nani.

Off you go.
Thank you so much for being here.

How wonderful.

Mark and Nani, ladies and gentlemen.

That went good. We were knocked out,
weren't we, by that performance?

The surprise at the end
and then the other surprise.

How wonderful for you to grow up
with your parents doing that,

and then you go into it
on your own as a career.

Was it daunting at all, though, knowing
you were following in their footsteps?

Oh, certainly.

So I would study different types
of magic then my dad was famous for.

So he was famous for doing
card manipulation when he was a kid,

so I studied the ba*ls,
like you saw in the video.

Yeah, yeah. So you would
deliberately mark out your own territory.

I tried.

We're gonna go to Penn and Teller.

What did you think of the act,
and did he fool you?

Well, you know,


Teller saw that trick

on the Magic Land of Allakazam.



And 50 years ago,
when he was...

Young...

It fooled him absolutely completely.

And there's a few things
that we notice, you know.

When you push a...

Box that's a little bigger
than maybe it needs to be

back against a curtain
that's a little further away

and maybe there's a little extra
time to sign.

And we've done sword boxes before,

and we've seen all sorts of ways
to do sword boxes

and we know...

Lots of ways that people have done tricks

that are slightly inferior to this,

and then at the end of a trick

you produce Mark Wilson

and Nani Darnell,

two of the best magicians

in the United States of America,

and you expect us to say,

that we aren't fooled?

We are not going to do it.

You pull those two people out
of a cabinet,

- you have fooled us.
- Yeah!

No ifs, ands, or buts.

Wow, what a start.

Okay.

Congratulations.

Wow, what a start.
Come on over, Greg.

Wow. Come on over.

But that's not the big prize.

You'll be back here as part of Penn
and Teller's stage show in Vegas.

- So, Greg, congratulations.
- Wow.

Greg Wilson, ladies and gentlemen.

Fabulous success.

Okay, off you go, sir.
Congratulations.

Fellows, back to your chairs.
Wow.

Let's meet our next act
and see if they've got what it takes.

Hi, my name is Trigg Watson,
and I live in Dallas, Texas.

My dad is a research scientist,
my mom is an editor,

I'm a magician.
Go figure.

In college, I studied business
and theater.

I like to call that show business.

As a performer, I'm inspired
by other art forms,

whether it be theater, music,
even stand-up comedy.

In order to be a good magician,
I love to collaborate with

other experts in other fields

because that gives me new ideas.

While a lot of magicians will
buy magic effects,

I like to build my own.

As technology becomes more and more
integrated with our everyday lives,

I want to create magic with these
everyday technology devices.

So can I fool Penn and Teller?

I'll certainly try my best.

If magic doesn't work out
for our next performer,

then he can make a solid living
as a stunt double for Neil Patrick Harris.

Will you please welcome,
Trigg Watson.

Thank you.

Good evening. Good evening, everyone.

Penn, Teller.

A lot of people think

that magicians on television
use camera tricks.

And in my case, they'd be right.

I'll be performing an illusion
that uses a camera,

or rather, a camera app.

I'm going to go to my tablet here.

Open up my camera app here.

Here we go. Oh, that's Angry Birds.

I was playing that earlier.

Let me get rid of that

and go to the camera app.

There we go. Are you ready?

You know what you call this?

It's an eye pad. Get it.

Came up with that myself.
See, the camera on the back here

is really good about
representing three-dimensional reality

on a two-dimensional screen.

I'd like to try and take
something one step further

by creating something in two dimensions

and then bringing it into real life.

Watch.

Now of course, I realize that
the screen is a little small,

and I'm going to be doing something
that involves a few more apps.

So fortunately, I came prepared.

I brought along with me
my own personal phone.

Yes, it's a smartphone. It's the 7-plus.

Although, in Penn's hands,
it would be more of a two and a half.

For what I'm about to do,
I require a little bit of assistance,

and I thought who better to help
than our very own host, Mr. Jonathan Ross.

- My pleasure.
- Are you busy? Do you have a minute?

I'm very happy and excited to help.

Come take a seat right here
if you wouldn't mind.

- Sit here?
- Take a seat, yep.

Now, Jonathan, as host of Fool Us,

I know that you've seen
your fair share of card tricks.

So today, we'll be performing
an app trick.

I'm going to select one
of these apps at random

and place it over here
on the microphone stand.

That will serve as my prediction.

Jonathan will then be
choosing a random app

from a similar set of apps right here.

Hopefully, the app that Jonathan
chooses at random

will match my prediction.

Now, if they don't match,
Jonathan messed up.

Now, Jonathan, I don't want
you to see my prediction, all right,

over here on the prediction stand,

so I am going to...

If you don't mind,

I'm going to blindfold you
for the next few minutes.

I have a blindfold for you to wear.

Go ahead and just slip that on for me,
if you wouldn't mind.

I'm open to new experiences.

Perfect, there you go.

Jonathan, I want you to know I have
your complete comfort

and customer satisfaction in mind.

Relax, take a break.

- Oh, thank you.
- There you go.

Feel free to take a nap.

Time for me to make my prediction.

Let's go with...

Let's see, I think will go
with this one today.

I want everyone to remember it.

Commit it to memory.

I'm going to place it over here

in the stand.

Now, Jonathan...

Is going to be choosing...

A random app

from this set of apps.

All different choices. Jonathan.

Jonathan, you can wake up now.

- Jonathan, wake up.
- It wasn't me.

Welcome back.

Go ahead and remove
your blindfold now, if you don't mind.

- Welcome back.
- Thank you.

Now, Jonathan, I know that

you're probably aware
that some magicians at this point

may try to make you choose a certain card.

You know, try to force you
to make a choice.

I want you to know this is
a completely free choice.

Truly, pick an app, any app.

- Any one of these?
- Just go ahead, reach in there, yep.

Don't look, just take it out.

- This one.
- That one right there.

Now, don't look at it yet,
just take it out.

Perfect. Allow me to recap.

I have chosen one app,

one app only, which has been
resting here on the prediction stand,

chosen from a whole bunch
of different apps on the phone.

Now of course, Jonathan had
a lot of different choices as well.

We've got 24 apps here.

Jonathan, I want you to now say
the name of the app out loud.

Angry Birds.

- Seriously?
- You want to look?

Can I see?

Uh...

Angry Magician.

Just...

Just as well, 'cause I may or may not have
chosen Angry Birds as well,

- ladies and gentlemen.
- Wow.

You really had me there
for a second, Jonathan.

You really... You really had me.

That was good. Thank you, Trigg.

Very good.

Okay, well, let's go front and center here

while Penn and Teller deliberate

and they talk about how you did
what you did and whether they know.

Let me ask you.
I've never met a Trigg before.

Oh, yeah, well, it's...

It's funny, in school,
math was my least favorite subject.

It's a little bit ironic.

But it's a Norwegian name.

So it's your real name,
it's not a nickname.

No, it's literally my real name.

I'll tell you, it's interesting.

The name Trigg in Norse means
trustworthy and truthful,

which is also ironic.

Yeah.

Given that I'm a magician.

It's like the path was chosen
for you there.

I guess so.

I think they had long enough.

Let's go over now to Penn and Teller.

Why don't we start with you, Penn?

Okay.

Great routine. We love...

Love bringing...

Bringing technology in.

I don't know if you're old enough
or lucky enough

to have met Billy McComb.

Never in person,
but I'm a big fan of his work.

We were very good friends.

- Terrific.
- Back in the 90s,

we used a thing he did
called the McComb-ical deck,

- which is what you're doing mostly here.
- Yes.

But a very magnetic version of it.

And you did...
The double punch lines

are always great in a magic trick,

to give one punch line
that completely sells it

and then turn it around the other way,
bringing out a failure.

But the thing I liked most about this,
I think,

is the fact that quick-change

is a really, really magical thing

and it's never used enough in magic.

And using a principal of quick-change

in order to do a...

Another punch line on top of it,
was a wonderful thing.

But I think we got all the...

All the details, what you did,

and I like to see it as kind of a tribute
to the great Billy McComb,

who, for those of you who don't know,

is one of the greatest comedy magicians
who ever lived.

- A fabulous guy.
- I hope I did him justice.

Let me just check.

What Penn said there,
was that enough for you

to accept that they do know
what was going on up here?

- Yes, I think so.
- Okay.

Well, you did it phenomenally.

They know their stuff.

- Thank you, Penn.
- Thank you.

You were great. It was a great show,
wasn't it, ladies and gentlemen?

Join me in saying thank you
to Trigg Watson.

- Thank you.
- Okay, thank you, sir.

Thank you. I'll have all these.

Let's meet our next potential fooler.

Hi, my name is Jen Kramer,

and I live right here
in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.

So when I went to Yale,
I became a theater major

because they didn't have a major
in witchcraft and wizardry.

I figured Yale is basically Hogwarts.
I'll join the magic society,

and I show up on campus and it turns out
there wasn't a magic society.

So I decided to start one,

and I'm proud to say,
it's still going strong.

So when I was 14 years old,

I was dreaming of being in Las Vegas
one day performing on a big stage.

Now, that I'm doing my show here,

there'll be girls who come up
after the show and say,

"You know, I never considered magic,
but then I saw the show

"and, you know, now,
I think magic is so cool."

And that, to me, is so rewarding.

I love that about magic.

This next performer went to Yale,

which is an adorable American version
of real colleges,

like Oxford and Cambridge.

Will you please welcome, Jen Kramer.

Hi, everyone.

Thank you so much for that warm welcome.

It is wonderful to be here with you all.

I did just graduate from Yale University,

and now I'm doing...
Thank you.

Now I'm doing magic full time.

Or, Mom and Dad, if you're watching,

I am a brain surgeon just like I told you.

I do these card tricks
to keep my fingers nimble.

Thank you.

And I'd like to show you right now
one of my all-time favorite card tricks.

Jonathan, would you join me on stage?

Let's hear it for Jonathan Ross,
ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you very much, Jonathan.

So great to meet you.

Jonathan, I have a deck of cards
here in random order.

I'd like you to please take
a look at that deck of cards

all mixed up there.

Now, Jonathan,

I'm going to give you some
very explicit instructions.

I need you to do exactly
what I tell you to do.

- Can you do that, Jonathan?
- I will try my best.

Excellent. I know you can do it.

- You're married, right?
- Yes.

- You know how to follow instructions well.
- Yes.

All right.

Here's what we'll do.
We'll divide the cards

so they're half-and-half-ish.

You're gonna take one half.
I'm gonna take one half.

Which half would you like?

This half.

That half. Go for it.

Give that half a shuffle, if you would.

Really mix it up well there.

- More shuffle?
- However much you'd like.

- It's up to you.
- They're fully shuffled.

Great. Now, I'm going to turn around

so that I can't possibly see what
you're doing, Jonathan,

but what I would like you to do

is please spread the cards out,

you can see, just like this.

Spread the cards out so that
you can see all of the options.

Yep.

And then I'd like you to think
of any one of those cards that you see.

- Okay.
- Have you got one in mind?

I've got most in my mind right now,

but I'll go back to just one.

Okay, I've changed it.
I've got one in my mind.

You've got one in your mind
and you'll remember that card?

I'm gonna try my best.

Terrific. All right, Jonathan.

I'll grab back the cards.

We'll shuffle them all together, in fact.

And are you ready
for your next instructions?

- Yes.
- You've been doing very well

- following instructions so far.
- Thank you.

Make sure they're nice and mixed up.

Would you hold out...
You're right-handed, yes?

Would you hold out
your left hand actually,

because I'm going to have
you deal some cards.

Okay.

All right, terrific.
This is so that the cards are entirely

out of my control right now.

Jonathan,
you've got the cards right there.

I have the power.

Now, what I'm going to ask you to do

is please deal the cards facedown

- onto my palm...
- Okay.

Starting from the top of the deck,
until I say stop.

All right, and by the way, now that the
cards are completely out of my control,

you can let everyone know,
what's the card you're just thinking of.

I thought of the eight of diamonds.

- The eight of diamonds.
- Yes.

All right, well,

please go ahead and I'd like
you to start dealing down cards there

until I say stop.

Oh, stop.

It was quick,
but it was good while it lasted.

I've...

I've heard that far too often in my life.

Now, Jonathan, just to recap
here for a moment.

You looked at the cards,

you were thinking in your mind
of a single card.

You shuffled the deck.

You dealt the cards.

Absolutely.

Right here, the card you're
thinking of, Jonathan.

The eight of diamonds.

Eight of diamonds. Let's see how we did.
Go for it.

Wow! Holy moly.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you, Jonathan.
- That was fabulous.

No idea how that...

'Cause I had hold of them
all the time there.

So Penn and Teller are gonna talk

and work out if they can work out
how you did that.

I was kind of on top of it there.

I couldn't see anything. I had no idea.

Let me ask you about
you're schooling, though.

- Sure.
- You speak four languages, is that right?

- I do.
- What are those languages?

I speak English, French, Spanish,
and Swahili.

Wow. Well, I can see why you'd want
to learn some of them,

but why French?

- I know. Nobody speaks that language.
- That's crazy.

What's the situation for you
being a woman in magic?

What are the advantages,
and what are the disadvantages of that?

You know, I think there are
advantages and disadvantages.

You know, advantages being that,
I guess, you sort of stand out

just by nature of being a woman.

Disadvantages also being

that things can be a little bit more
challenging.

You know, the magic books are written
for men

and men's clothing and that type of thing.

Yes, because if you're wearing
a big jacket,

then you could conceal stuff more easily
than coming out with bare sleeves.

Exactly, exactly.

Okay, well, I think they're ready now.

They've deliberated long enough.

- Penn?
- Well, you know, the temptation,

because women in magic are so rare

is to talk about how refreshing it is
to see someone with a couple of

X chromosomes up there,

but I don't think that's
the most interesting thing about this.

The most interesting thing about
this is not your gender

but rather that...

What you did is a trick, and the audience
probably can't tell the difference.

What you did is a trick

was predominately intellectual.

And a lot of the people that
come out here and do tricks

it's finger flinging,

it's what I would call juggling.

It's a huge amount of physical practice.

What you were doing there

is a huge amount of mental practice.

As a matter of fact, when you got
to the place when you had to do

a shuffle that...
Well, you had to do your shuffle...

- Yes.
- You could see

that your handling of the cards

was not as smooth as
your handling of your mind.

I'm gonna say a couple of names to you.

There's a great Spanish magician

named Juan Tamariz

and there's another great Chicago magician
named Aronson.

And I bet that either of those two guys

have a pretty good idea
of the capacity you have.

Now, I wanna tell you, my favorite kinds
of card tricks use this technique,

'cause I love it when it's up here
instead of here.

- Okay.
- We got a pretty good idea?

- Absolutely.
- Okay.

I'm assuming that that kind of...

The codes and the names mentioned there,
that's enough

for you to believe that they
know what you were doing?

- It is.
- It was all done up here,

Jonathan, all done up here.

That's why I was so good to work with,

'cause nothing was being done up here.

But you were fantastic.

It blew us all away for sure,
even if you didn't fool them.

Jen was wonderful, wasn't she?

Jen Kramer, ladies and gentlemen.

That was fabulous.

Jen Kramer.

Thank you very much.

Out of all of our acts tonight,
I feel confident in saying,

our final one is without a doubt our most
famous and definitely our best looking.

It's also their show, so they may or
may not have made me say that last part.

Okay, it's time to see them do a trick.

Ladies and gentlemen,
go crazy for Penn and Teller.

We'd like to...

We'd like to address a classic of magic,

or actually the classic of magic.

As a matter of fact,
it's the cliché of magic.

It's a cliché that when someone
does something impossible

they've pulled a rabbit out of their hat.

And it is the icon of magic

to have a 19th-century magician
with a top hat and a wand, a little tap,

and a live rabbit coming out.

And every magician does this.

Every magician we've had
out here, as part of their routine,

they will pull a rabbit out of their hat.

Every birthday party magician you see,
every backyard magician,

every magician on Broadway,
or on the strip... No.

No.

It's a really rare trick.

It's the cliché of magic, and yet,

I may see more magic than you,
and I've never seen it,

never once seen it.

Teller sees more magic than I do,

he's never seen it either.
We've never seen that simple trick

of a top hat,

a wand, a couple of taps, and out of there
comes a live rabbit.

There's a few reasons you haven't seen it.

One is it's become an anachronism.

In the 19th century
when this became a cliché,

many men wore top hats to the theater.
They're called opera hats.

They fold up to go under the seat,

but now, it's very, very rare
to see a man or a woman

wearing a top hat
in 21st-century Las Vegas.

Maybe when there's cosplay in town

or maybe there's somebody
who's into steam punk,

we'll see one or two.

Mostly we see a cowboy hat now and again

and a baseball hat or a cap.

I'm just gonna...
I'm just gonna loan this to you, if I may.

And just, you know, make sure
you fold it up, open it up,

fold it up, open it up,

put it on your head,
kinda make it your own for a little while.

I'm loaning it to you right here.

So since they can't borrow a top hat,

they'll use something else.
They'll use what magicians call a silk,

which is really just a handkerchief.

They could do a lot of routines
with those.

There's a lot of magic developed for this.

And they'll have a picture of a top hat
on a silk

and they'll pull out a rabbit.

But it's a rabbit pulled out
of a picture of a top hat,

not a top hat,
and it's also not a real rabbit.

This is what's called a kicker.

It's sold in magic stores, very expensive.

It's a spring covered in fur,

and if you puppeteer it properly,
which Teller does,

at least in a long shot,
kinda looks like a...

Like a real rabbit.
Makes the magic much easier,

'cause you can compress this.

You can kind of palm it.
You can also hide it up your sleeve.

It's easier to handle this,

and it also deals with another problem,
another anachronism,

which is in the 19th century

we didn't really care very much
how animals were treated.

But the sphere of compassion
for humanity has grown,

and in the 21st century we insist,

magicians and audiences alike,

that a life is treated with compassion,

dignity and respect.

So it makes it really hard
to do the rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick.

Does anybody here have a top hat?

Anybody have a top hat in the audience?

Is there a top hat?

You have a top hat.

Could you come up here please?
Right up here, yeah.

Bring your top hat with you
right up here, please.

Thank you so much.

- What is your name, please?
- Kat.

Hello, Kat, my name is Penn.

This is Teller right here.
Kat.

And, Kat, take a look at that top hat,
huh?

May I borrow the top hat back
for a moment, please, Kat?

Thank you so much.

And now, Kat, did you get a chance
to fold it up like this?

- I did.
- And you opened it up like that,

you did all that?
Did you look around on the inside?

- Yes, I did.
- It's completely empty,

'cause I'm gonna show this to the camera,
but it's black on black.

So I take a magic wand.

Here's the trick that
you wanted to see, the cliché.

Borrowed top hat, borrowed from Kat.

Couple of taps right here.

Circular gesture,

and then out of that top hat
comes a live...

- You can touch her.
- Really?

He's so cute.

That's Wossy the Rabbit right there,
Wossy.

- Say hi to Wossy.
- Hi, Wossy. Hi!

Is that a real rabbit right there?

- Hi, it is, oh, my God.
- There it is the classic of magic,

a live rabbit out of a borrowed top hat.

- Thank you so much, Kat.
- It's so cute and fluffy.

Right there, watch your step.
Right back there.

That is our rabbit Wossy.

Wasn't that great, ladies and gentlemen?
Penn and Teller.

Phenomenal close to the show,

and that's it. Join us next week

when we see who else can trick
the magnificent Penn and Teller.

See you then.