04x13 - Hanging Out with Penn & Teller

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel
in Las Vegas,

here's our host Alyson Hannigan.

[applause]

- Welcome to "Fool Us"

when Penn and Teller's job

is to try and bust
the world's best magicians,

and we get to sit back
and watch them sweat.

I hope they wore deodorant.

Now let's turn the heat up
on the hottest act in Vegas,

Penn and Teller.

[applause]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

Starting now, Penn and Teller
are putting their magic minds

on the line.

If they can't bust
tonight's magicians,

they will give that performer

a slot in their Vegas
magic extravaganza.

Let's meet our first
potential fooler.

[exploding]

- Hi, my name is Patrik Kuffs,
and I do risky magic.

Yeah, I create my own tricks,

and I draw them
in my book of ideas.

It starts with a small drawing,

and it forms over the years
from there.

Like mentalism,
like escape magic,

even sideshow stunts.

[squealing]

You must force yourself to try
something that nobody do.

It's risky,
but it's worth it.

In 2009, I was in Vegas

to see the Penn and Teller show.

And after the show,
I snuck on the stage,

and I was alone,
and I was dreaming

how it would be incredible
to perform here

one of my magic tricks.

Be careful what you dream
because it could happen.

[fluttering]

[applause]

- Please welcome the fast mind
of Patrik Kuffs.

[applause]

- Hi, my name is Patrik Kuffs,

and I'm here to mystify you,
Penn and Teller.

Not with my French accent.

[laughter]
With a card trick.

The most dangerous
card trick ever.

[laughs ghoulishly]

[laughter]

And, for this,
I need an assistant.

Yep, I need someone fearless,

someone who is not afraid
to be onstage,

and most important
someone who smells good.

[laughter]
So, I choose...

Alyson Hannigan.
[applause]

Please join me for an adventure
you will never forget.

Thank you.
Just there.

First of all, thank you
for your confidence.

[laughs]

And, please, take place
on this very humble throne.

Oh, okay. Hmm.

We are ready for action.
Let's begin.

- With...the helmet.
- Ooh.

It's for your safety.

[laughter]

You will do it yourself.

Is it too tight?
Too slip--

- No, it's good. Yeah.
- Perfect?

- [laughs]

- This is a card trick,
so obviously...

- [laughs]

- From that deck,
I want you to take a card.

So I will drop the card
this way.

Say "Stop"
whenever you want.

- Okay.

- And because I know
some people

will accuse me of cheating...

[laughter]
I will turn my head away.

I don't want to see your card,
even by accident.

- Okay?
- Okay.

- So say "Stop"
whenever you want.

- Stop.
- Perfect. Take your card.

Oh, you got--you got
to take two.

- Okay.
- Yeah, it's no problem.

Take two. I have a solution
for everything.

- Okay.
[laughter]

- I have an idea.

Shuffle both cards.

- Okay.
- Mm-hmm.

- Take one, throw it
behind your back.

You still have one card
in your hand?

- Yes.
- That will be your card, okay.

Look at your card.
Don't show it to anyone.

Please remember your card.

Okay?
- Yes.

- Perfect. Put your card
there, please.

Yeah, this way,
and shuffle like that.

So your card will be
lost somewhere.

- Okay.

- To find Alyson's card,

I need...

the magic mixer.

[laughs]

And...

The tape.
[laughter]

I will put the mixer
on your head, okay?

And I will fix it
with a piece of tape.

That's the fun part.
- Okay.

[tape ripping]

- [humming]
Just a little bit this way.

[muffled]
Perfect.

Don't move, don't move,
don't move, don't move.

Don't move, don't move.
We got it.

Thank you. Oops, sorry.

[tape ripping]

Perfect. We're ready.
- Eeh.

- Give me the deck, please.

Let's feed the beast.
- Eeh.

[laughter]

Can I hold onto the helmet?

- Bon appétit.

So, question.

Are you left-handed
or right-handed?

- Right-handed.

- Perfect, let's work
with the other hand.

[laughter]

[humming]

- [groans]

- Your job is easy.

In a moment, I will count
one, two, three, go.

- Mmm.
- At "Go," only at go.

You put this in that.
- Hmm.

- Ready, one, two, three, go.
Boom, you plug in.

- Oh, good.
- When you do this--

- Uh-huh?

- The mixer will sh**t
the card to the air.

- Oh!
- I will try to catch your card.

- Okay.
- Not with my hand.

- Hmm.
[laughter]

- With my magic wand.
- Oh, dear.

- The pièce de résistance.
- Hmm.

[laughter]

[laughter]

- Don't worry.
Don't be scared.

You're protected, okay.

Don't worry, it's almost
finished, thank you.

- Okay.
- [humming]

Let's do this.

For the people
that just joined us,

my name is Patrik Kuffs,

and this is the most dangerous
card trick ever.

[laughs ghoulishly]
[laughter]

Alyson, are you ready?

- Uh, if I say no,
are you gonna stop?

- Okay, thank you.

[grunts]

Okay. Let's try the laser.

Kids, don't try this at home.
It's dangerous.

[laughter]

Alyson, be ready
and please think of your card,

and listen carefully
for the signal.

- Oh my God,
I forgot my card.

Okay. Yeah. All right.
[laughter]

- One, two, three.

Go!
- [groans]

- Perfect, perfect.
Unplug it.

I don't want it to explode.

[laughter]

Perfect.

This look familiar?

- No.
- Perfect.

[laughter]

Let me help.

It will do a sound,
a dangerous sound.

[makes rip sound]
Okay.

Sorry for that.

Okay, first question,
Alyson.

Let me help you.

Do you see your card
on the floor?

- Uh, no.

- This is a good sign.

[laughter]

For the first time,
name your card.

- Jack of Diamonds.

- Seriously?

- Yes.

- Sometimes, I miss,
but not today.

[applause]

[whooing]

My name is Patrik Kuffs.

And this is the courageous
Alyson Hannigan.

[applause]
- Wow! Patrik Kuffs.

Nice.

Thank you for not k*lling me.

- That was part of the deal.
[laughter]

Yeah, and the funny part is

it's the first time ever
I perform it.

[laughter]

[loud laughter]

- I don't think
that's quite funny.

- No? It's French.
- No.

- [laughs awkwardly]

So, this is not
your first time on the stage.

- I snuck out,
and I came back onstage alone.

I was feeling the place
and was dreaming.

Wow, imagine if one day
I can perform here.

So, it happened. Wow.

[applause]
- And look at you.

That's so cool.
Your dream came true.

- Yeah, my dream came true.

- I'm glad for that.
[applause]

- Thank you.

- All right, well, let's see
what they have to say anyway.

- All right?
- I'm ready.

- Penn, Teller?

- Boy, you know, I'm going
to talk about

a lot of things
that it's not.

- Okay.

- Most times,
if you do a trick like this,

we're looking very carefully
at the target.

Everyone else is watching
the trick.

We're staring at the target,

expecting that card
to pop out of the target

in some sort of
mechanical way.

It did not do that.

That made the trick
really, really good.

Also, you always look
for the card

to not really be
on the arrow,

not really be through
but some sort of--

usually, it's a piece
of elastic

that pulls it up into place.

Not that.

That arrow is going
through that card

that was selected
by Alyson.

All that stuff was
really, really great,

really, really funny act.

And I just thought--
and forgive me

because I do not speak
any French at all.

But we thought that
the waterfall

was a tour de force.

Am I saying it right?
- Yeah.

A tour de force.

And we think the little subtlety
you did on selecting the card

as just brilliant,
was just fabulous.

And I think you should have
a slight idea

of what I'm talking about there.

The whole routine
was just wonderful.

- They caught it,
but I don't care.

[laughter]
Thank you.

- Well, thank you,
Patrik Kuffs.

Thank you so much.
- Bye-bye.

[applause]

- Penn and Teller
weren't fooled,

but I bet you were.

We'll give you a few more shots

at figuring things out
when we come back.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[applause]

♪ ♪

[applause]

- Welcome back.

This is "Fool Us,"
so let's bring out

our next fool-er.

[laughter]

[exploding]

[siren wails]

- When I was 13 years old,
I was lifting weights.

I had 95 pounds
up over my head,

and my knees buckled,
I fell, hit the floor,

and it snapped
both of my arms.

Pretty painful.

While I was in the hospital,

one of my mom's friends
bought me some books on magic.

Close up magic is definitely
what I feel passionate about.

I just like the one on one
or small group interaction

where the magic is happening
right in their hands.

I got to perform at
the Presidential Inaugural Ball

for George W. Bush.

So, yeah, I fooled them,

but the real challenge is going
to be fooling Penn and Teller.

Let's see if I can
pull that off.

[applause]

- Please welcome Missouri's own
Todd Lamanske.

[applause]

- Thank you.
Thank you very much.

Alyson, would you mind
joining me over here?

Penn and Teller, would you mind
joining me as well?

Let's hear it for Alyson
and Penn and Teller.

[applause]

Give it up, give it up.
Please sit down.

- Hi.
- Hi.

- I'd like to give you
a chance to win some money,

and you guys are going--

you're here to keep me honest.

- Okay.
- So, a little bit of money.

- Ooh, all right.
- Twenty bucks.

It would have been more,

but I make my living
doing card tricks.

[laughter]
Sad.

No, let me tell you
what's going to happen here.

First, they're all
randomly mixed, yeah.

If this trick doesn't work,
Alyson,

you get the twenty bucks.

- Okay.
- Okay?

Do they look okay?
- Sure. Yeah.

- Okay. Here's what's
going to happen.

I'm going to hand you
the cards in a moment,

and you're going to deal them
one at a time

face up
from the face down deck.

Whenever you decide to stop,
just stop dealing.

But, when you do,

the very next card is going
to be the Ace of Diamonds.

I know that's a bold statement,
right?

But that's exactly
what's going to happen.

And it doesn't matter.
I know there's an ace here.

But that's the heart.

I don't want to know
where the Ace of Diamonds is.

I don't want you to know
where it is.

So I'll mix 'em up,
and you guys can keep me honest.

Does that look pretty thorough?

Yeah? Do me a favor.

Take the deck,
and you know what to do.

You can stop whenever you want.
It's up to you.

But deal them face up
off of the deck, yes.

- Okay.
- Fantastic.

You look like
you've done this before.

- Uh.
- And it is up to you.

So I'm not trying to get you
to, yeah.

You can go as long--
[laughter]

That's good.

- I guess.
This is exciting.

- Ooh, I saw the Ace of Clubs.

- Cool.
- The tension is mounting.

- It's so good.

All right, well, it's getting
a little boring so I'll stop.

- Ah.
[laughter]

That's where you're stopping?
- Yeah.

- Are you sure? Because I--
I'm not going to do anything.

You didn't see the Ace of
Diamonds go by, did you?

And you didn't either?
- I didn't.

- Okay, I'm just going
to square them up a little bit.

Uh, are you sure
that's where you want to stop?

Because I don't want you
later on saying,

"Man, I wish I would've gone

one more
or two more or five more."

- I don't think I'll say that.
- This is where you're stopping?

- You might say it, I won't.
- I won't say that.

Because I know
what's going to happen.

So you're satisfied
this is where you're stopping?

- Yes.
- Okay, the very next card--

I want to see it,
but just deal it

face down right there.

Don't look at it yet.

Perfect, and we all want to see
the rest of the cards too.

So continue dealing them
face up.

And, in fact, you can
deal that, yep.

You can just--you--I'm just
going to turn them all over.

Because now it doesn't matter,
we can see them.

- Right.

- Continue dealing them
face up one at a time

and make sure there is
no Ace of Diamonds seen.

And, if you see one,
tell me.

We'll stop, I'll give you
the twenty bucks.

We'll call it a night.
- Perfect.

- And, if you guys see
the Ace of Diamonds,

you can say something.

Actually, you can say something.

You can just sit there
looking adorable.

[laughter]

And you do bring the adorable.

Don't--don't mistake that.

Okay.
- I did not see it.

- No, you didn't see it, okay.

I'll let you square 'em up.

- Bing!
- Yep.

- Bing.
- And you can turn 'em over.

So now they're all facing up,

and whatever the card
was facing down.

Okay, I'm just going
to move them over here.

I won't do anything tricky.

So, just to recap,

I stated at the beginning

I was going to get you
to stop on the Ace of Diamonds.

So you dealt them all
face up.

Then one face down,
the rest face up.

So you handled every card.

We saw every card in the deck
except for one.

- Right.
- What card did I say?

- Ace of Diamonds.
- The Ace of Diamonds.

- [Alyson gasps]
[applause]

- What? What? What? What?

- Wow! Todd Lamanske, everyone.
- Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

[applause]
- Todd Lamanske.

That's really cool.
- I fooled you?

- Yeah!
- I'm gonna call it a night.

Thank you very much.

[laughter]
- No, come back.

- We should wait,
we should wait.

- Yeah, I think so.
- Might have something--

- Because I was like,
"I'm gonna trick him.

I'm going to deal more
than I think I should."

- Right. And?
- And I did.

- And it still worked
like I said.

- It totally did.
- I had money on it, so.

[laughter]
- Felt good about it.

- That was good.
- Good.

- How did long did--
did it take to master this?

- It's really none
of your business.

- Okay.
[laughter]

- No, I'm kidding. Pshh!

Uh, this trick? I don't know.

I've been doing this trick
for, I don't know,

ten years maybe?

- Wow.
- Maybe longer.

- And this is the first time
it worked?

- It's the first time
it's ever worked.

I was like, "Oh, finally, whoo."

[laughter]
- All right, Penn, Teller?

- Boy, it's nice to see
a nice, simple card trick.

- Thank you.

- It was nice and slow
and procedural and simple,

and there's nothing in it.

Just an open prediction

right at the top, right through.

You say what you're
going to do, and you do it.

You're not relying
on surprise or anything.

And I liked that you called
Teller adorable.

You know, he does tend
to be fairly smooth,

and I can be a little bit rough.

But I got to tell you
that in this case,

which is our favorite tricks,

we didn't see anything.

We're doing this
all by deduction.

It's all entirely deduction.
- Good.

- We didn't see--you know,
sometimes we'll see someone

do something
a little bit sloppy,

or we'll catch a glimpse
of something.

Even on ones that fool us
it occasionally happens.

Everything was totally clean.

Nothing but our knowledge
of magic gave us help on this.

We loved it,
we think we got it,

and I hope I give you
a little something in there.

If you need more,
I can lay it on you.

- I think you gave me enough.
- Okay, good.

Because I don't want to give
away more than we have to.

It's a beautiful trick.
- Thank you very much.

- They didn't give me
anything.

[laughter]
But you did.

- You were wonderful, Alyson.
You were wonderful.

- Todd Lamanske.
[applause]

- Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, guys.

Thank you.
[applause]

- Okay, Penn and Teller
busted that last act,

but there is one trick that they
absolutely will not bust.

It's the trick they perform
themselves later in the show.

Stick around.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's meet the next act

who might stick it
to Penn and Teller.

[exploding]

- Most people think
you're either born creative

or you're not, and that is
so far from the truth.

Creativity is like anything,
it's a muscle.

The more you use it,
the better you become with it.

I got into creating magic
about eight, nine years ago.

My claim to fame
is an item called Pyro,

which is a wrist-worn
fire sh**ter.

I think Pyro was a big hit

because who wouldn't want

to sh**t fireballs
from their hands?

I don't create things
to fool normal people.

That can be pretty easy.

My job is to not only
fool laymen

but get magicians
to buy products that I create.

Well, tonight it's me
bringing Penn and Teller

something I'm positive
they've never seen before,

and it's just about
me standing there

trying to fool them.

[applause]

- Along with a randomly
selected member of our audience,

please welcome
the inventive magic

of Adam Wilber.

[applause]

- Thank you, Alyson.
Thanks so much.

What's your name?
- Tony.

- Tony, I'm Adam.
Pleasure to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- Can I borrow a dollar bill
from you?

- I do have a dollar.
- Beautiful.

You from Chicago?
- I am.

- All right, that's where
I would keep it too.

Perfect, perfect.
[laughter]

Tony, I'm going to have you
do me a favor.

I'm going to have you
sign this.

And I'll put a little box

so you know exactly
where to write for me.

So, if you put your name
right there,

that would be excellent.

- Okay.

- Now, a lot of people ask me
why I do magic for a living.

It's a kind of an honest
and interesting question.

And the answer is pretty simple.

For the money.

[laughter]

See how easy that is
when you're a magician?

Now, Tony, we're going

to get back to your bill
in a moment,

but first since we're
on this beautiful stage

I figured I'd show you
something cool.

Would you like to see magic?
- Yes, sir.

- Perfect.

Coincidentally, you have
exactly the right amount

[laughter]

Welcome to Vegas, my friend.

[laughter]

Now before we get to that

I want to tell you
a little bit of a story

about how I got interested
in magic when I was a kid.

- Okay.

- See, I used to live down
the street from a magic shop,

and the guy behind the counter
was an interesting dude,

but he used to do
the most incredible things

with money.

I'll show you
the very first thing

he showed me
when I walked into his shop.

He had this
little wooden paddle.

It didn't look like
much to me.

It had pieces of paper

on each side
with money signs on it.

That's three here,
three here.

Again, it doesn't
look like much

until he did the magic shake.

Watch careful, Tony.
It looks like this.

And now those paper
have turned into pennies.

That's three here
and three here.

I was stunned to silence myself.
I get it.

[laughter]

Now this was at the time

the most incredible thing
I had ever seen

in my entire life.

Keep in mind
I was six years old, right.

But so incredible
that I bought the effect,

I went to my house,

and I spent the better part
of a week

changing paper into pennies

and laughing to myself
like a crazy person

the entire time.

[laughter]

Now at the end of a week
when I had enough money

I went back to his shop
and I said to him,

"What do you have
that's a little more substantial

than maybe pennies?"

And he brought out
little colored sheets of paper

and four of them
to be exact.

At this point,
I wasn't too impressed.

But he said, "Wait till you see
what they can do."

So, Tony, watch careful.

We're going to take
four of these pennies.

I'm going to place them
right in the middle

of this trash paper--
we'll call it that for now.

Very fairly, all I'm gonna do

is fold them
into a little bundle

of trash paper, essentially.

Now, at this point,
as a little kid

I wasn't too impressed.

Much like our audience
here today.

[laughter]

Nothing happened just yet
until...

he did the magic shake.

[scratches]

At this point,
he opened this up

and, to my surprise,

he had five times
the money he started with.

Watch careful.

Because those pennies
have turned to nickels.

- Wow.
- Poof. Right?

Mind was blown.
[applause]

So, of course, I said,
"Ring me up."

I went back to my house,

and I spent the better part
of two weeks

changing paper into pennies
and pennies into nickels,

laughing to myself
like a lunatic the entire time.

Now this time
when I went back to his shop,

I didn't even have to ask him
what was next

because he had this
little brass cap

already sitting there
waiting for me.

Didn't look too impressive,

but for this can I have
your hand to demonstrate?

Put your hand right in here
and a little higher.

I'm going to take
the four nickels,

and I'm going to place them
on the back of your hand.

Now it's important
you keep your hand steady

because if you don't those
nickels fall off into my hand.

- Okay.

- Now I'll do this
as slow and fair as I can.

Tony, can you see the nickels
on the back of your hand?

- Yes, I can.

- Can you feel the nickels
on the back of your hand?

- I can.

- And can you see this empty,

weird looking brass cap?

- I see that weird cap.
- Watch this.

We'll put the cap
over the nickels,

and we wait.

Now, of course,
we need that magic shake.

This time, I do it.
- Oh.

I was going to shake for you.
- Perfect.

[laughter]
Now, Tony, be honest.

Does your hand feel a little bit
lighter than it did?

- Not so much.

- See, it should...

because dimes
are lighter than nickels.

- Get the--
[laughter, ahhing]

- Four dimes from four nickels.
[applause]

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

[applause]

So, I went back
to the magic shop,

and I asked the guy,

"Do you have anything
with foldable money?

Something I could actually
make a living with?"

And what he showed me next
changed my life.

This thing right here.

At this moment
not too impressive,

but let me show you
what it does.

- Tony, is this your bill?
- That is.

- The one that you gave to me?
- Yes, it is.

- I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.

Now we're going to put
this right here.

Now watch careful.

All we do is slowly
roll this,

and you'll see that
one dollar bill

change from a one
to a hundred.

[crowd gasps]

- Thank you.
[applause]

Tony, can you verify that
your name

is written on the back
of that hundred?

- Wow. That's my name.

That is my name.
[applause]

- Now, Penn, Teller,
I have a feeling

you might think I'm using
some sort of wordplay

or trickery,

but I can assure you I'm not.

See, this is Tony's bill

because this is
Tony's signature.

So, Tony, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.
[applause]

Tony, I'm going to have you
take this home--

- Right.
- Compliments of me.

Don't worry, I can make
many, many more.

Let's all give Tony
one big round of applause.

- Thank you.
- Thank you, sir.

- Let's hear it
for Adam Wilber!

- Thank you very much.
- Whoo! Amazing.

So an inventor?

- I love that creativity process

of trying to make a problem
that's both entertaining

and fun to watch but also
fooling at the same time.

- Yeah, and so this is
one of your inventions?

- Yes, yes.
- Yes, wow.

Do you have more tricks
in the pipeline

that you're sort of--

- I do have a few
that are far-fetched ideas,

but I think that's where
the best magic comes from.

Thinking way outside of a box
of impossibility

and then whittling it down
to something

that's a happy middle ground,
you know.

- Do you like wake up
in the middle of the night

with like an idea?

- I do, I do.
- "Oh, I got to try it!"

- Yeah, anyone here
always keep a notebook

by--by your bedside.

It's one of the biggest keys
I can give you.

- Okay, looks like the guys
are ready. Guys?

- I want to say before anything

that magicians
are never classy.

They always do these things

where they change a dollar bill
into a hundred

and they change it back

and do some sort
of lame joke

about keeping the money
or keeping it to themselves.

Giving the guy
the hundred dollar bill

as a souvenir is classy,
the way to go.

We've never seen a magician
do that.

Really, really good.
- Thank you.

[applause]

- Now, we all know these words

we're just going to rattle off
really quickly.

We all know paddle moves,
cap and pence,

and Buddha money mystery.

We all know those.

And those are done beautifully
in a really nice routine.

But the question is:

How did you get the signature
on the bill?

- [laughs]

- And there are two solutions
that we can think of.

And I want to ask you
one question before that,

and that is...

Can we look into that
Alberton case you have there?

- Please.
- Okay, we're not gonna.

[laughter]

We just--we just want to know
if we could.

We have a huge amount of
information once you said that.

And if you were bluffing
on that, you're a genius.

[laughter]
Just a genius.

So I think that that
little question and answer

gave us a little window

into how you might
have done this trick,

a little bit of a way
to frame the whole thing

and get a very clear idea

of how you ended up giving
that guy a one dollar bill,

turned it into a hundred

with his signature
right on there.

It's a wonderful, wonderful act.

- Thank you very much,
but no window whatsoever.

I know where you're going.
Absolutely not.

- No window at all?
- In any shape or form, no.

- And we can look in the case?
- Yes.

- Seems like the wrong guess
even though I don't know

what they're talking about.

[applause]
Wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, this is exciting, people.

Oh...oh, there's
no window in there.

- No.
- I don't know what that means.

[laughter]

Oh!

[laughter]
Oh. Oh!

I think we have a fooler!

[applause]

Whoo!

- Thank you so much.

- Great job.
- Thank you very much.

- Winner! Congratulations.

[applause]

- We had two choices.
Both were wrong.

- Wow, I did not see
that coming,

and clearly neither did
Penn and Teller.

Let's see if we have
another fooler on our hands

after the break.

[applause]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's get to know
our next magician. Take a look.

[exploding]

- I'm Hector,
and I'm originally from Spain.

I perform with big props

making people disappear
and reappear.

That's what I like the most.

I've got a lot of

visual games for the eyes.

♪ ♪

I'm very wacky.
I travel all around the world.

The most powerful language
that I can speak is magic.

Wow.

Without saying one word,
I can totally move people.

[applause]

- Give it up
for the magic of Hector!

[applause]

- Hi, everyone,
I'm so happy to be here,

but I would like
to share this

with someone really special.

So, Alyson, let me ask you.
Are you wearing a ring?

- Yes.
- Will you join me here?

- Sure.
- Alyson, ladies and gentlemen.

[applause]

- Very nice meeting you.
- Nice to meet you.

- Don't worry about your ring.

Nothing is going
to happen to it.

Well, actually, your ring
is going to go through a journey

that you and your ring
will never forget.

- Hmm, okay.

[mystical music]

♪ ♪

[clinks]

[applause]

[applause]

[applause]

[clock ticking]

[clinks]

[crowd gasps]

[applause]

- Yes! Yes.

[applause]

Oh.

[clattering]

[loud applause]

- Hector!

Hoo-rah.
That was so cool.

- Thanks.
- That was really my ring.

- You will remember that
forever.

- Okay, I certainly will.

- I'm happy you liked it, yeah.
- Yes.

So is this like
a dream come true

to be here in Vegas?

- Absolutely, I'm from
a little city,

a little country in Europe,

and I'm here in Vegas
performing before all of you.

So this is absolutely
amazing for me.

- Yes, aw.
[applause]

Have you always wanted
to be a magician?

- I wanted to be a magician
since I was a little kid,

but I didn't think that I could
make a living out of this.

So, what I really wanted
to do as a profession

was to be a chef.

- Oh, really?
- I wanted to be a chef, yeah.

- Oh my gosh, you can
cook for me then.

- Absolutely.
[laughter]

- All right, well, let's see
what the guys to have cooking.

Penn, Teller?

- You know, we,
especially Teller,

are very fond
of shadows as a magical cause.

We like that,
we like that very much.

It's also really hard.

A lot of magicians try to do
like a romantic plot,

and they either go over the top
or they fall too short of it.

You seem to have it
really nailed there.

It was really nice.
- Thank you.

- And classy and romantic.

You know, I'm not a drinker,

but you had all different
kinds of glasses there.

You had a highball glass,
you had a shot glass,

and I love the different sizes
of those,

but we know a little bit
about them.

I want to speak a little bit--
where are you from?

- Spain.
- Spain, oh.

So [speaks Spanish]
is probably a word

that's familiar to you.

Also in Teller's production
of his show "Play Dead,"

you have the problem of he
actually used that same chair.

- All right.
- Set up.

So we know how that's done.

But a wonderful,
wonderful routine.

It was electrifying
with the chair.

It has the ending
and the whole thing.

It was really--
it was really great.

So, we think we have
a pretty good idea.

- I'm pretty sure you do,
yeah.

- So they're using
a lot of code words,

which I don't understand,
but I'm sure you do.

- I did, yeah.

- Are you convinced they know
how you did your tricks?

- Absolutely. I just hope
they had a good time.

- We had a great time.
It was really nice.

- All right, Hector,
ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you so much.
Thank you.

[applause]

Coming up, the fooled
become the foolers.

That's right,
Penn and Teller perform

when we come back.

[applause]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Well, Penn and Teller
are geniuses,

and they have been
for quite some time.

In fact, they've invented
and performed

so many original illusions

that occasionally
they hand one of them off

to two up and coming magicians
and see how they like it.

For more, here are
Penn and Teller.

[applause]

- There's one thing--

There's one thing everyone
in magic agrees on,

and that is women
are the future of magic.

All the great magicians
of the future

are going to be women.

And the two you're going
to see tonight

are going to prove
that they're better

than all the men
who've come before.

Now, what you're about to see
is so amazing

that people at home
might think we're using

some camera edits
or something like that.

Now all the acts
that we do here

are done in front
of a live audience.

But just to make sure
during this

our two performers
are going to yell out,

"Are we live?"

And if everything
you're seeing here in the studio

is the same as is
going on video,

you yell out, "Yeah!"

Let's try it once.
Are we live?

- [crowd]
Yeah!

- Are we live?
- Yeah!

- And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the future of magic,

Jen and Amber.

[applause]

- That's right.
We are the future of magic.

Women can do everything
men can do.

We're proving
that we can do it better.

This is my partner Jen.
I'm Amber.

Together, we're Jen and Amber.

- Why don't you start out
by doing a rising card?

That's a standard trick
that all male magicians do.

Can you give that a try?

- You know what, the rising card
definitely is a beginner one.

So it's no problem for Jen.

Jen, let's make
that card rise.

- [snaps]

- Once again...
[applause]

- Pretty good, it's true.

[applause]

But, once again,
we are the best.

So Jen's going to actually
make that card rise

all the way to the ceiling.

- [snaps]

[applause]

- What about the whole deck?

- No sweat.

[whooing, applause]

- Now Harry Blackstone, Jr.,
a man,

was famous
for the dancing handkerchief.

Can you do that?

- The dancing handkerchief
is a classic,

but, once again,
simple and easy for us.

Jen.
- [whistling]

- Uh, yeah, uh, Jen,
we can see--

we can see the thread, Jen.

We can see--
it's like a rope.

We can see the--
- It's true.

Jen was just showing you
not only does she have skill,

she also has
a great sense of humor.

Take it on up, Zeke.
- [whistles]

- My goodness.
- Still dancing.

Still boogying.
[applause]

- Harry Blackstone also did
the floating light bulb.

How are you guys on that?

- The floating light bulb?
What a great idea.

I've got this one covered, Jen.

[blows]

Look at that.

[applause]

- We loved it.

Well, you can't talk
about magic, uh,

without talking
about David Copperfield.

How are you on him?

[spits]
Copperfield Schmopperfield.

You know what, he's best known
for the disappearance

of the Statue of Liberty.

He did that on TV.

We're going to do that in front
of a live studio audience.

Are we live?
- Yeah!

- Jen, take it away.

Not so bad, not so bad.
But...

[applause]

But you know what?
We're better than that.

We're going to actually
make the Empire State Building

disappear with only
a piece of paper

and three seconds.

One, two, three,
and it's gone.

[applause]

Are we live?

- Yeah!

- Well, you know,
after Copperfield

kind of comes David Blaine.

He did that levitation
and stuff.

How are you
on the David Blaine things?

- You know what, David Blaine
is known for levitating.

Jen can make David--

[laughter]
Mini.

Levitate any way she wants.

Look, look.

[laughter]
Watch, watch.

Twa!

But we can do even better.

Let's make David
levitate all the way--

[snaps]
To space.

[laughter, applause]

Are we live? Yeah!
- Yeah!

- You know, David Blaine
was known for the levitation.

But now he's mostly known for--

well, he's famous for puking.

He pukes up frogs.

He swallows stuff,
barfs it up.

Can you do any of that stuff?

- You know, I thought
you might bring that up.

So, before the show,
I actually swallowed

two tanks of helium.

So I could regurgitate for you.

Let's see how this goes.

[blowing]

[high-pitched voice]
Okay, Mr. Blaine,

explain to me how I did that.

[applause]

Are we live?

- Yeah!

- Well, you know,
I hate to bring this up,

but also Teller and I have done
some pretty good magic.

How are you
with the Penn and Teller stuff?

Are you better than us?

- Well, there's
one big difference

between Penn and Teller
and Jen and Amber.

- That's right.
First of all, I can talk.

[laughter]

- That's right.

[applause]

Jen, you can talk,
and that is a big difference.

Speaking of big differences,

recently, Penn, didn't you
just lose 100 pounds

in three months
eating only...potatoes?

- Pretty much, yeah.

- You know, I think
that might be

the most remarkable
transformation I have ever seen.

[shuffling]

[laughter, applause]

And, if you don't mind
me saying,

you're looking pretty good.

- Thank you.

- But clearly that's
not an effect

that we can recreate

because we're handicapped
with already being thin

and good looking.

But something--
[laughter]

Something we can definitely,
definitely recreate

is your world famous
cups and ba*ls.

- Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But we did it
with clear plastic cups.

That was the whole gag
in the way we did it.

- Clear plastic cups
like this?

- Just like that, yeah.

- Clear plastic cups,
tinfoil ball,

and an effect
not even you guys attempted.

- Wow.

- But--
[applause]

But the thing Penn and Teller
are best known for

is the reveal.

- And we have a few things
to reveal ourselves.

[laughter]

[splashing]

[cheering]

[loud applause]

- Nicely done.

Loved it, beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful.

Fabulous, fabulous job.

- And now for the saddest
part of our show, the end.

We'll turn that frown
upside down

with more mind-blowing magic
next week.

From all of us at "Fool Us,"

thank you
and see you next week.

[applause]