01x02 - Teller Sucks... Helium

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Here's TV's very own
Mr. Magic, Jonathan Ross!

Thank you, well, hello and welcome
to Penn and Teller: Fool Us,

the show where hopeful magicians try
and win a chance to perform in Vegas

by hoodwinking two masters
of the magical craft.

We have got some spectacular illusions
lined up for you.

Over the next hour,
you will be breathless with excitement.

We will have you gasping
like Anne Widdecombe's dance partner.

And I can assure you the acts tonight
are very special indeed.

I've seen them at work.

Backstage one of them made
my watch completely disappear.

Don't worry, I've found it again.
It's on eBay.

But frankly it's not me they have to fool,
because I'm no professional magician,

I've never pulled a rabbit out of a hat.

I did pull a hair out of my nose once,
but that's an age thing.

It was so long it made my eyes water
and I felt a twinge in one of my buttocks.

No, the men they have to fool have spent
the last decade lighting up Las Vegas

without ever needing to be plugged in.

They are, of course,
the fabulous Penn and Teller.

Hey! Welcome to Vegas!

My name is Penn Jillette,
this is my partner Teller,

we're Penn and Teller.

We've been performing here
at the Rio Hotel for ten years.

Vegas loves magic!

Thank y'all so much for coming along
and being here this evening.

Drop! Mazel tov!

Our job is fooling people,
but now we want to be fooled.

No, Teller! Teller! Teller!
Teller! Teller! Teller!

Even for professionals,

there's noting like the thrill
of being bamboozled by a great trick.

So we're challenging magicians

to come up with their favorite tricks
and perform them for us.

We'll be in the audience
and we'll watch it live,

and only once, just like everyone else.

No camera tricks, no funny edits.

And if anyone can fool us,

we'll pay for them to come and perform
here, on our stage in Las Vegas.

But be warned!

If we can figure out
how the trick is done,

we're gonna say.

Well, I'm gonna say.

So to get here and play the big stage
in Las Vegas,

all that tonight's performers
are going to need is lots of guts.

But the risk will be worth it,

because the winners
will get to experience this.

No, no, no, no, no!
You've got to go around that way!

The winner will get to experience this!

So come on, guys, give it your best shot!
Fool us!

That's the show right there.

And I know they might seem like
a weird combination,

but it's an American thing,
like peanut butter and jam,

or bacon and syrup, it shouldn't work,
but it does brilliantly.

Will you please welcome
the majestic Penn and Teller!

So here we are, we're ready to go,

we've got some incredible acts,
incredible performers lined up for you.

Can I ask you though,
are you at all nervous,

is there a kind of professional
pride thing at stake here?

Scared to death!

You know, this seemed like such
a good idea when we thought of it.

And then we walk out here
and I'm terrified.

I'm so afraid that every single person
is going to fool us.

We're going to ask you to sit down now.

The guys are going to
be sitting right there,

they're going to be
watching the whole thing,

and you're going to be communicating
with each other throughout the kind of--

- Yes we will.
- So we'll find out whether--

Because, you know, the whole trick
is to fool Teller, not me.

- Yeah.
- I have to, I have to listen to him.

- He's the brains of the outfit?
- He certainly is.

Okay. Guys, would you like to go
and take your seats?

Okay.

Mr. Penn and Teller, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Are you comfortable?

So Penn and Teller will talk about how
they think the trick has been done,

but in such a way that they don't
necessarily give away the secrets.

Obviously I'm not really qualified
to judge if they're correct,

but luckily upstairs we have a magician
who has spent the last sixty years

working with the biggest names in magic,

helping them work on illusions,
designing some himself.

He's kind of the Simon Cowell of sorcery,

and his word will be final,

so let's meet
our first contenders this evening.

I'm Michael, I'm 20.

I'm Tamsin, I'm 23.

We are High Jinx.

An illusionist double act
from Huddersfield.

Tamsin joined the act
about three months ago.

Since Tamsin has joined us,

I've been teaching her
how to perform the illusions.

I'm just trying to teach her
as much as I possibly can.

Being part of High Jinx has just been
absolutely brilliant so far.

I'm loving it.
I'm loving working with Michael.

In the short amount of time
that Tamsin's been with me,

she's been doing absolutely brilliant.

And she's wanted to take part in
all the other things, the circus skills,

the stilt walking, the juggling.

She's just wanted to
really have a go at everything, really.

Working as a double act
can be quite difficult at times,

you've got to rely on the other person
and they've got to rely on you.

It is quite common that two magicians
that work together are a couple,

but me and Tamsin aren't a couple.

Not yet!

Please welcome the delightful,
the spectacular, High Jinx!

High Jinx, Ladies and Gentlemen.
That was great, that was fabulous.

I've just noticed,

did you notice the uniform is all ripped
from where the things went in?

That's great. I love the whole look of it,
I love your outfits you're wearing.

So the guys are going to have a think now

about whether they know
how it's done, of course.

So how confident do you feel?

Um, I mean, they're pretty hard to fool.

I reckon it's going to be pretty hard
to fool them.

You know, you mentioned
in the film beforehand

that you were kind of hoping,
maybe, you would start going out.

Just discreetly,

and I promise to keep it quiet
if the answer's no,

but are you, are you going out?

- Yeah, we are.
- Yes! Come on!

We're bringing people together!

Teller's drawing something there,

so either he's got a pretty clear idea
what's going on,

or he's just bored and doing the Sudoku.

No rude pictures please!
Okay, do you want to come forward, fellas?

Does it mean that because you've become
a couple in the short period of time,

we're going to become a couple?

Because that's a horrific idea!
A horrific idea!

Teller's got a little something
to show you.

No, no, no!

We ought to show that to
the audience, Teller? Or...

That's a definitive no.

That was great, it was a great act, man.
Thank you so much. Congratulations.

Thank you.

You know, I looked at the drawing you did,
I still don't know how it's done,

so that's really,
it's a great performance!

It was great, but they nailed you,
you didn't fool them?

- No.
- No, we didn't fool them.

We haven't been able to fool them, no.

It's a great performance, though,

and it's so nice
that you're together as well,

so it's, you know, it's a nice,
warm feeling for all of us.

Lovely to meet you, Michael and Tamsin.
High Jinx, Ladies and Gentlemen!

It's time now to meet our next performer.

My name's Jon Allen,
I'm a professional magician

and creator of magical effects!

The style of magic I do
is close up magic, mainly.

I always try to do magic
with everyday objects

and things that people can relate to.

The trick I'm gonna be doing tonight
is very dangerous.

I don't think anyone's died yet
from doing it,

but it has caused a lot of injuries

and hopefully
I won't be added to that list.

I'd say this trick works 99 times
out of a hundred.

To date I've probably done it 98 times.

Tonight it's probably going to be 50-50.

If I look nervous
it's because I really, really am!

The sort of reactions I get
when I perform this,

I've had people screaming,
people just not wanting to look,

and some people wondering
if I'm actually a sane human being.

That I never let on.

Now, the trick you are about to see
is definitely risky.

If it goes well, if it works,

our next performer
could be going to Vegas,

if it goes badly,
he will be going to casualty,

and then almost straight on to YouTube.

Would you please welcome Mr. John Allen!

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Are we in control of our own fate?

Clearly for me tonight,
the answer to that question is no.

But are any of us in control
of our own fate?

Because every single day we rely
on other people for our own safety,

whether it's other drivers on the road,

the chef who cooks our food
in the restaurant,

or even the person who secured

the studio lights
to the ceiling above your heads.

So let me explain what I have here.

Inside the first three bags,
I have a block of wood.

Now the reason for the block of wood
will become apparent in a few moments.

In the fourth bag
there's another block of wood,

but as you can see,
I've drilled a hole through it.

The reason for that is this.

A solid, six-inch, stainless steel spike.

Technically it's a nail,
but I do like alliteration.

I need someone to verify that this is,
in fact, sharp.

So the lady just on the end there,
your name is?

- Sophia.
- Sophia.

Can you come up and join me please?
Give her a round of applause.

I'd like to thank you
for coming to help, thank you.

Sophia. Could you just slam your...

Actually, don't slam your hand down,
that would be quite silly.

Could you just tap the palm of your hand
on there, very gently?

Is that sharp?

- Yeah.
- Yeah? Good.

Now, the nail goes into the bag. Yeah?

- Happy? Good.
- Yeah.

Now, I need to mix up the bags

so that nobody knows where the nail is.

But so that you don't know,
I have this screen.

Now Sophia, could you just turn around
so that you can't see either? That's fine.

Now I'm just going to mix up the bags

so that none of you know
where the nail is.

But I know what you're thinking.

I don't expect that to fool you.

Well, that's why I'm going to
have Sophia mix up the bags as well.

Sophia, can you just turn around?

And can you just mix up the bags for me?

Just a few times.
And just leave them in a straight line.

And now you can see why
I have the extra blocks,

otherwise it's quite easy to see
which are the empty bags.

- Have you done that?
- Yeah.

Fantastic. Great. Let's take this away.

So.

Tonight I'm going to put my safety
into the hands of somebody else.

You.

It's time to get serious,
because there are videos online

of people doing this type of effect,

and getting it wrong
and badly injuring themselves.

And because of that,

I have to say a couple of things.

First of all, check out the videos,
because some of them are quite funny.

But also, please do not try this at home.

And for legal reasons,

I have to say in front of everybody here,

if this goes wrong
and I end up getting injured,

the fault lies entirely

with Sophia.

Sophia, I'm going to pass my hand
over each bag.

When you get a sense, or a feeling,
that my hand is over a safe bag,

that's one, well, without the nail in,

I would like you just to say stop.

- Stop.
- This one here. Are you sure?

Okay.

Suddenly this looks like
a really stupid thing to do.

One down.

Literally one down. All right.

Two more to go. Sophia, the same thing.

When you think my hand is over
a safe bag, just say stop.

- Stop.
- In this one? Okay.

Maybe there are times
when you are in control of your own fate,

and maybe tonight is just
such a moment for you, Sophia.

Could you take maybe two steps
to your right?

Are you left or right handed?

- Right.
- That's a shame. Okay.

- You're going with your instincts?
- Um-hmm.

All right, just let your...
Just let your arm go loose, okay?

We'll do this on the count of...
Just let it go loose.

Expand the muscles just in case.

On the count of... One!

Are you okay? Thank you.

Sophia, I promise that I will do this one.

- Okay!
- All right.

For the final time...

When you think my hand
is over the safe bag,

you get that gut feeling,

just say stop.

- Stop.
- That's it?

Okay.

How do I do this?

Sorry!

Yes!

Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

Mr. John Allen, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Thank you, Sophia, nice job as well.

- John, that was tremendous.
- Thank you.

Let's go down the front here.
That was fabulous,

it was nerve-wracking,
and it was funny at times as well,

and poor Sophia almost fainted,
I think, on stage.

But that was great, and you're right,
I have seen these clips on YouTube,

there are incidents
of people actually doing this,

and actually getting impaled.

- Yeah.
- I mean, for real,

I've seen these things, I don't know
if they're doing it the same way as you,

I don't know why that happened,
how that happened,

but has it ever gone wrong
or nearly wrong for you?

- It hasn't gone wrong yet.
- Right.

But as I said, there's always that
inherent risk of something going wrong.

Yeah. And when you do it,
when you had Sophia's hand,

and you pushed it down there,

is there a moment where you think,

A, I might have got this wrong,
and B, thank God it isn't my hand?

Well, I'd prefer to just use
someone's hand for all of it.

That's the easiest way out of it.

But no, I do, I do worry for the person,

and thank you for doing something
you didn't know you were going to do,

so I appreciate that.

And can I just ask,
have you performed in Vegas before?

Have you visited Vegas before?
Have you done shows over there?

I'd love to go to Vegas.

Well, you haven't done it yet.

Okay, well, Penn and Teller
are still talking.

Do you think I've given them
long enough, Ladies and Gentlemen?

- Yes.
- Yes!

I think I have.

Because what they have to do,
of course, is get it right.

They can't just give me
three possibilities,

they can't give me two possibilities,
I'm going to make them settle on one,

and that's what I'm going to do right now.

Penn! Teller! Hello! How can you
just ignore me? Okay. Mr. Penn.

First of all, I want to address
a moral issue.

What you said about the videos
on YouTube... is absolutely true.

There people that have done tricks
similar to this,

who have been injured doing it,

and I want to just state very strongly
that magicians that do things

that are truly dangerous are immoral,
that's wrong to do,

and I'm hoping that the producers
would never allow this on this show,

and I believe they would not.

That having been said,

we don't think there's any chance
involved in this whatsoever.

Teller was expecting
through the whole trick that you had nails

in all four bags and you were going to
pull it up from the bottom

and hook it up from that,
you didn't do that.

I believe, and I could be wrong,

that I saw, after you did
the kind of faux praying gesture,

on the last bag that came down,

I believe your right hand
went out of sight,

and I believe you copped the prop
to load it into the final bag.

Is that right or is that wrong?

Because if that's right,
you didn't fool them.

- Yeah.
- If that's wrong, you're going to Vegas.

Much as I'd love to go to Vegas,

that's close enough for me
that you got it.

- Well, thank you!
- Wow.

Jon Allen, Ladies and Gentlemen,
great job.

Thank you.

In our first show, not one but two
magicians came on and confounded Penn,

no surprise there,
but they also fooled Teller.

So that meant both John Archer
and Ben Earl

were whisked off to light up Las Vegas.

Vegas baby!

Here's a bit of advice,
if you can't see Vegas in a helicopter,

see it in a red Chevy.

Or do both.

If somebody else is paying.

When we first talked
about doing this show,

it was, let's see
as much great magic as we can

and see who fools us,

and nobody really knew
where the dial was set.

Mr. John Archer!

John Archer will always be special to us
because he was our first.



This is just silly!
It's not really supposed to fool us.

To fool any magician takes a bit of doing,

but to fool Penn and Teller,
it's up a level.

Mr. Benjamin Earl.

I was confident going in
that I could fool Penn and Teller.

But I was also very nervous
that anything could happen.

He's not only skilled enough to fool us,

but also his knowledge
of the culture of card magic

is much more sophisticated than ours.

- Wow!
- It's big.

Stepping out on stage today was amazing.

It felt a little bit gladiatorial.

You just look up and you just think
it's going to be full of Romans

deciding whether to
put their thumbs up or down.

- You feel good about the show tonight?
- Yeah, excited. Very much.

Yeah, excited.

Every friend I have in Vegas
will be here to see you guys,

because they're just dying to know
who the guys were that fooled us.

- No pressure!
- Yeah.

They'll speak to you afterwards,
they'll say, they fooled you?

Right, yeah!

I've got a few minutes now
until stepping on stage.

Pretty nerve-wracking!
But I'm massively excited.

I mean how often do you get the chance
to perform in a huge Vegas show?

Possibly the biggest Vegas show there is.

All of a sudden you're coming into
their world on their stage.

And all of a sudden it's game face.

Please welcome Ben Earl!

I'm going to attempt to find
four of a kind from a shuffled deck.

High as a kite. Just absolutely pumped.

Welcome to the United States of America,
John Archer!

You might go for envelope number four,
envelope number four is mine.

And you will notice, Ed,
that mine is much bigger than yours.

Get over it, Ed! I'm a big fella,
it's genetics.

Any group of four numbers,
you can have four of those,

four of those, four of those,
four of those.

Over 75 combinations of 54,
in 26 seconds! Now!

It worked, I did it.

I think you could put John
almost anywhere,

and he would absolutely k*ll.

It just makes you think,
why can't I be doing that every night?

They've got the best job
in the world, those guys.

John Archer.

Ben Earl.

Beautifully done.
They fooled us in the UK.

I've been to Vegas before,

and I've had fun in Vegas before,
but this has been insane.

I've had a lot of nice experiences,

but I think this,
at this point in my life, tops it.

So, from that you can see

the price on offer tonight
for all our magicians

is second only to
meeting the real Harry Potter.

Now you know all the rules,
so let's meet the next challenger.

Oh dear!

Hello, my name's Graham Jolley.

I'm probably one of the world's
oldest mind readers, or mentalists.

Yeah, bloody marvelous.

You're probably wondering
what the word mentalist is.

Well, it's different from a magician,
but we all come from the same background.

Four. It is four?

But when I got to about fifteen,

I thought it was rather childish
doing this sort of thing.

It doesn't feel right, you know,
and so I stopped.

Hello, ladies. Thank you.
Would you help me?

I've been doing this now
for about 40 years, I think.

Two of those years have been successful.

The rest, well, it's been downhill really.

I used to be the world's
fastest mind reader,

but now I've sort of slowed down rather,

I've now become one of the oldest
mind readers in the country.

I'm nearly 66 now,

and people think I should pack up, retire
and spend more time with the family.

Thank you.

I don't want to. Have you seen my wife?

The problem is,
I've got to fool Penn and Teller.

I've got to do something

which Penn and Teller couldn't even be
bothered to try and work it out.

In that way I can sort of short circuit
their thinking process, I hope.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't care
whether I fooled them or not,

I would like to fool them.

Goodbye.

If you ever wonder what would happen
if Basil Fawlty had gone into magic,

I think you're about to find out.
Would you please welcome Graham Jolley.

Thank you.

Well, good evening, everybody,
good evening.

Tonight I'd like to try
and read your minds.

I have two experiments.

The first one would definitely
not fool Penn and Teller.

The second experiment,
I very much hope will.

There's no guarantee.

The theme of the experiment is color,
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Five different colored snooker ba*ls.

I hope you can see them clearly.
Red, brown, blue, yellow, and white.

And I'm sure each one of you in the room
has a particular preference

for one of these colors over the others
according to your personality.

Jonathan! Would you help me?
Would you come up, please?

A nice round of applause for Jonathan.

- Thank you.
- Good evening.

- Hello, Graham, nice to meet you.
- Just over there.

Jonathan.

Don't touch anything just yet, Jonathan,

but in front of you
are five different colored snooker ba*ls,

- is that correct?
- I see them.

I have my back to you,
I can't see what you're about to do.

Jonathan, would you look at the colors
and think of one of them now.

And would you remove it?

Would you remove it and place it
in your right hand trouser pocket?

Your right hand trouser pocket, please.

- Done.
- Does that look better?

It's comfortable.

Four remaining, is that correct?

Yes.

Think of one and then remove it.

Would you place that in your right hand
jacket pocket over here?

Visual clue,
your right hand jacket pocket, please.

- Have you done that?
- Yes, sir.

You have three remaining, would you think
of one and then remove it?

Would you place that
in your left hand trouser pocket?

Your left hand trouser pocket, please.
Have you done so?

- Yes.
- And you have two left?

Would you think of one of them
and remove it.

Would you place that over here
in your left hand jacket pocket,

your left hand jacket pocket, please.

- Have you done that?
- Done.

And, Jonathan, you have one left.
Is that correct?

There's just the one left.

Would you take it and would you place it
in one of your inside breast pockets,

right or left hand side,

and let me know
when you've done so, please?

- It's done. The box is empty.
- Are they all gone?

- They're all gone.
- Now, Jonathan,

most people think of those colors
in a particular preference,

according to their personality
and character.

I'm going to try and judge your character
and try and work out how your mind works.

- Good luck.
- Are you by nature

a fairly extrovert,
outgoing kind of person?

No, I'm quite shy.
I don't like the spotlight.

I am!

Do you have difficulty
in making decisions?

- Um...
- Yes or no? You are...

You're a complex person.

I don't want you to deny or confirm
my next remark.

Don't nod, smile, or give me any clues,
but I have a feeling you went for red,

and I think you placed the red
in your right hand trouser pocket,

Would you have a look?
This should be the red.

It is the red!
Thank you very much indeed.

That...

I've left you with a choice
of just four colors.

You're the kind of man, I think you are,
you're the kind of man

who after a hard day at the studio
likes to get home,

put on some music, pour yourself a drink,
and put on women's clothing.

Sometimes, yeah!

You used to, and...

I'm not sure,
but I think you went for brown.

I think you place the brown
in your right hand jacket pocket.

Could you have a look?

- It is the brown.
- I did!

Thank you very much indeed, Jonathan.

Thank you for that round of applorr.
Now that left you...

- with a choice of just three colors.
- Yes, sir.

Have you, in the last two or three years,
ever seriously, and I mean seriously,

considered committing a criminal offense
against Piers Morgan?

Well, on a daily basis. Who hasn't?

Interesting response.
I think you went for blue.

And I think you placed the blue
in your left hand trouser pocket.

Could you have a look?

- It is the blue.
- Blue it is!

Thank you very much indeed.

And...

That left you with a choice
of just two colors.

Jonathan don't tell me which is which,

but just tell me yes or no.
Can you remember your next choice?

- Not really, could I have a little--
- You can't.

- Let me have a look.
- No, don't look.

Don't look?

Obviously I can't read Jonathan's mind
because he doesn't know what it is,

so I'll have to use a different technique.

Guessing. I think you
probably went for yellow.

And I think you placed the yellow
in your left hand jacket pocket.

- Could you have a look?
- Yellow it is!

It is the yellow!

- I didn't even remember.
- And the white...

The white's in your breast pocket!

- There it is! Wow!
- And the white.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

You're a star. Wow, that's incredible.

Thank you. Fabulous. Incredible.

Well, I don't think
that will fool Penn and Teller.

My Aunt Mary can think
of three possible solutions.

So may I invite Penn and Teller
to join me?

A nice round of applause
for the gentlemen if you would.

- Graham, sir.
- Hello, Penn.

- Very good.
- Thank you very much indeed.

Teller. Thank you.

I'm obliged to give you my card,
I'm a financial adviser, and...

I'd like to show you a card trick
if I may, gentlemen.

I'll just give the pack a shuffle.

- Now, Penn.
- Yes.

Would you kindly cut off about a third

and hold it against your chest
if you would?

- Do I look?
- That's right, hold it like that.

- That's it, perfect.
- But do not look, is that right?

You can look, but not me.

Teller, just cut about a half, would you?
And hold it against you?

Would you now, gentlemen,
both look and remember your cards?

And would you just drop
yours back please, Penn?

And Teller?

- It's hard, it's a long reach!
- I'm sorry, it's a long stretch.

- Just drop yours back.
- And I'm huge!

Teller, I hope you don't think I'm rude,
but is it okay to call you Teller?

It seems awfully familiar.

It's okay. Well, what I was trying to do
is a little bit of misdirection there,

I was trying to distract Teller to look
away from my hands but it didn't work.

I find it quite irritating actually and...

I don't like your attitude. No, no.

I'm only joking. Forgive me.

I've reversed two cards in the pack.

The jokers, were they your cards?
Did either of you choose the joker?

- No. Okay.
- I did not.

Okay. Because the jokers will tell me
where your cards are.

To be quite honest, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I don't know how this is possible.

I don't know the cards
Penn and Teller cut to,

I obviously wouldn't know where they are,
but they do, they talk to me.

You'll find this interesting, and...

They will tell me where the two cards are.

Hello? Can you speak clearly, please?

It's not Channel 4, and...

It's where?

The 18th card from the top?
Thank you so much.

And Teller's joker will tell me
where your card is.

Ah, that's clearer. 43rd?

Okay, the jokers tell me
that the two cards

are at the 18th and 43rd card
from the top of the pack.

I'm sorry,
I've got to do this fairly quickly.

I know it's dull. I'm just going to
count down to the eighteenth card.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, 11, 12,

thirteen, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

I never forget, Ladies and Gentlemen,
what Sigourney Weaver once said to me.

She said, "Who are you?"

I'm trying to
make this entertaining, and...

eighteen, 19, 20, 21,


twenty-eight, 29, 30, 31,


thirty-eight, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43.

Gentlemen.

Well, here are the cards.

Penn, please,
what was your card, if you would?

- King of spades.
- The king of spades.

You were so close.

The king of spades!

Teller, you'd better just nod.

Was your card the five of spades?

Yes? Thank you so much!

But! But! But...

But...

I know what you're thinking,
Ladies and Gentlemen.

You're thinking this is
quite a lot of procedure

for what is really a very minor miracle.

Obviously the jokers don't talk to me.

But the jokers do have
the power of prediction.

Because before the show

Penn's joker predicted 18,

and Teller's joker
predicted the 43rd position.

Thank you so much!

- Thank you.
- It's a pleasure.

Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.

Graham Jolley, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Graham, wow! Lovely, lovely show.
What a great show.

Have they, uh...

I think they've had long enough
to discuss it, don't you?

You think we should go back in now?

- Yes, all right.
- Just a second more, Graham.

- Sorry!
- That was great work.

You know what I love was
sitting from there and watching.

I'm trying to see what you're doing,
I can't work it out.

But the audience's reaction when
you pulled some of those last things out,

they were looking at each other,
completely dumbfounded,

- that must be a lovely thing to see.
- It's very satisfying. Yes.

They look genuinely mystified to me.

If they get it or they don't,
we've had a great show.

That was tremendous,
wasn't it, Ladies and Gentlemen?

- Let's go back in.
- Very well.

I think we should.

I think they've had long enough,
they're still chatting about it.

Mr. Penn, Mr. Teller.

Just ignoring me
won't make him go away, you know.

I mean you're going to have to talk
to us sooner or later.

He's still...
How rude are these Americans, eh?

They come over here, they take our shows,
they ignore our hosts.

Gentlemen. You look a little perplexed.

Well, let's start with
a few things it's not.

You did not do a card force.

We had a real choice of the cards.

- Could we look at that deck now?
- Yes.

- We could? We could look at the deck.
- I hope I haven't given you a clue.

So there was not, as you can see,
this is a, as far as I can tell--

I haven't eaten. I'm...

This is a...

This is a regular deck of cards,
there's not a bank.

You could have had a bank
of king of spades,

- a third of the way down, and then.
- I was going to use that method actually!

- But you didn't.
- Cor, strewth!

- But you didn't. So you had--
- I get the feeling, are you...

- Are you just fishing here?
- No, I'm not fishing.

Or do you know where you...

- Are you going somewhere with this?
- I'm telling you what it couldn't be.

- Yeah.
- I'm building him up.

- Are you? Okay.
- Because it's so great.

So I think by doing all of that
with no force and no deck switch,

you might know
what my next words are going to be.

I believe, Graham,

you fooled us. You're coming to Vegas.

Wow! Fantastic.

Graham, congratulations.

He fooled them!
Graham Jolley's going to Vegas.

Great work, Graham. Take care!

Nicely done. What a great trick.

A great trick, yeah.

That was fabulous.

- Can we go back to our seats?
- You go back to the seat.

Later on I'll tell you how he did it.

- Please do! Please do!
- It was magic!

So far tonight we have seen
some tremendous acts,

and one person is going to Vegas.
That's incredible, isn't it?

Now, they may have been
working together for over 35 years,

but they've never stopped
inventing new tricks,

new acts and now we're going to see
their very latest.

Will you please show your appreciation
for the magnificent Penn and Teller!

As Jonathan said,
this is a brand new trick for us,

we've never done it over here,

we've also never done it
anywhere on television.

It's an escape trick and we haven't done
an escape act in years.

It's also a stupid trick.

It's really stupid, but there's one moment
in it that's kind of boss.

And we do the whole trick
just for that one moment.

And I'm going to pick somebody
from the audience here.

Let's see who we've got.

How about you, sir? With the tats.
Yeah, right up here.

- What's your name, please?
- Steve.

Come up here, would you, please, Steve?

And just walk up here on stage.

Now, when you're brought on stage
for an escape act,

it often turns into
this kind of macho competition thing.

Because usually when you're brought
on stage for an escape act,

you're essentially, Steve, you're like...
you're like tying a guy up,

like putting rope on him,
or straitjacket,

or handcuffs, or leg irons,
or there's telephone booths

and Niagara Falls and helicopters.

We're not doing any of that, Steve.

What Teller's going to do is
he's going to escape from this trash bag.

That's the whole trick,
he's going to escape from the trash bag,

something that you could do.

And we're also going to
fill the bag with helium.

Which makes the trick even stupider.

Because helium is a deadly gas.
It displaces oxygen.

The amount of time
you can stay in a helium environment

is only the amount of time
you can hold your breath.

It's a deadly gas.
But it's also a fun and happy gas.

When you think about helium,
you don't think about it being deadly,

you think about it blowing up balloons
for children's birthday parties.

So it's really stupid to do a dangerous
trick that looks happy and fun.

We're going to fill this bag with helium

and Teller will escape from the trash bag
without letting the helium out.

Steve, just cinch this shut,
would you, please?

When you get this shut
just let go for a second,

I'm just going to give this a tie up.

And then if you would please, Steve,
bring your hand in here.

Yeah, right in here, left hand,

right up close
so the gas doesn't get out very much,

and you also be very careful
of your rings.

- Okay.
- And your watch,

because you don't want
to puncture the bag,

or you'll ruin the whole trick.

I'm going to start filling this up now.

Many of you...

...could get out of this trash bag,

and that's another thing
that makes it stupid,

we're filling it up, be real careful
of that watch there, Steve.

Filling it up here.

I just want to check,
I want to check on Teller,

make sure he's doing okay in there.

You okay in there, Teller?

Yes, I am, Penn!

Well, you've heard Teller speak on stage.
Fill it up a little more.

Now just keep holding,
I know you're bending over,

try not to get it with your watch there
and then let go for a second.

I'm just going to get another tie in.

Now you're hold it
a little bit differently,

take your left hand, hold it in near
the end, don't let go.

- Okay.
- Hold that tight, keep it right there.

Don't let go. Like I said,
it's a really stupid trick,

but there's one moment in it
that's really boss.

We do it for this just one moment.

One. Two. Three!

And that's the moment right there

when the audience sees
that you're out of the bag

and the helium is still in it.

That's right there.

- Thank you so much, Steve.
- That was brilliant.

Watch your step there.

That's Steve right there, that's Steve!

And that's a brand new trick!

That's one of the noble gases!
That's helium flying up there!

Helium.

Penn and Teller, Ladies and Gentlemen.

- Fabulous!
- Thank you, Jonathan.

What an ending!

We should have done it with hydrogen.

It should be hydrogen.
Oh, the humanity!

Join us next time as we try to fool them
here on Fool Us.

Good night, everybody,
thanks for watching.