02x07 - Penn's Favorite Card Trick

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

here's our host, Jonathan Ross.

Thank you very much.

You're very kind.
Thank you so much.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome to Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

Now, tonight we will see some
of the best magicians in the world,

and the fun part is you'll see it
all exactly as it happens.

It's like Miley Cyrus twerking.

It's all out there for everyone to enjoy.

So you can see everything,
but the eyes that matter most

belong to the stars of our shows.

There are four beady eyes
and just one booming voice.

Here they are.
It's the fabulous Penn and Teller!

Teller, great to see you.

Penn, fabulous, as always.

Now, people who've seen this show

will know that when you talk to the acts
after they've performed,

you talk in a kind of code.

It's a sort of a magician's language
you're using,

so you don't give away
too much for the rest of us

and spoil some of the tricks
in the future, I guess.

How many of these kind of secret little,

kind of ways of describing things,
do you know?

Well, we're kind of making
them up as we go, you know?

My goal...
Our goal is to give an amateur magician

or maybe children who are studying magic

enough information that they
can search around and dig around

and go in their libraries,

and then go back and watch it again
to figure out what really went on,

but those who want to just watch
a live magic show done real

can also do that
without having the illusion crumbled,

so we're trying to
walk a little bit of a tight wire there.

And you're doing it fantastically.

Teller, I would ask you a question
but you know what it's like.

Once he starts talking, he never shuts up,

so maybe, maybe we'll talk later instead.

If you'd like to take your seats,
gentlemen, this show can begin.

Penn and Teller, ladies and gentlemen.

It's time to start the show.
Let's meet our first magician.

Hi, I'm Kostya Kimlat.

A business-focused magician
specializing in sleight of hand magic.

My company trains and books
magicians around the world

for all kinds of corporate events.

Over the years, I started to see
the connections between the art of magic

and the craft of business.

A sale, just like a magic trick,

happens in the customer's mind.

It's all about perception, and
that means human interaction.

How do we communicate?

Those are the real secrets of magic.

Great magic doesn't start to fool you

so that you believe in something.

Great magic reminds you to be careful
about what you believe in.

And that's why it can be so
helpful to think like a magician.

Our next performer has been known to teach
businessmen to think like a magician,

like they need any help in
making people's money disappear.

Will you please welcome Kostya Kimlat.

Thank you very, very much.

It's an absolute pleasure to be
here with all of you in the theater

and everyone watching at home.

Penn, Teller,
I'd like to show you something special

using a pack of playing cards.

Will you please join me
so you can watch closely?

Everyone welcome Penn and Teller.

How are you gentlemen?

What a pleasure. So nice, so nice.

So please have a seat and relax.

In a moment, you're going to
help me shuffle these cards.

Now I've found
that how people shuffle cards

depends on which part of the world
they've come from.

Now we have 52 playing cards.
We've taken the jokers out.

Now I don't know if you have a
preferred way of shuffling the cards

but I'd like to give you
about half of the cards.

I'd like you to mix those up
as much as you like.

And you can mix them up, too.
Maybe you can help me do this.

Can you wash them here on the table?
Like this, yeah.

Now the hardest part, of course,
is collecting all those cards,

so we're going to square
all of these cards up.

And you feel those are pretty
well-shuffled for yourself as well?

Thank you, Teller.
I'm going to spread these face up.

And then I'm going to do kind
of a crazy shuffle, okay?

I'm going to turn these face down,

and I'm going to shuffle them together,

but before I push them in,

I want you to see the state
that they're in.

All right? Very well mixed up.

And then, Teller,
if you would take your hand

and place it like this
for me if you would.

Yeah. And then can you place your hand...

Place it above.
And press the cards together.

That way you not only see them
all the way down the line,

you actually feel them being shuffled.

And all the way, all the way, working
so effortlessly as you do together.

- Awesome.
- We're such a team.

You are, I love it.

Perfect. Perfect shuffle.

You should see us shampoo together.

Now look, would you agree
those are really well-mixed?

- Yeah, I would, unfortunately.
- Okay.

Now... Now, I'll say this.

There is only one other shuffle that mixes
the cards in a more thorough way.

And this is a shuffle that is preferred
by children and drunks.

Like that. Okay?

Now, look, we even dropped some
on the floor. It doesn't matter.

The cards are completely mixed up.

In fact, why don't you guys get in there.

Feel like a kid again.
I want you to go ahead,

turn them over, mix up, face up,
face down, do whatever you like.

Give them a nice little mix.
You feel pretty good about that?

Actually, it's starting to make me
feel worse and worse.

- I'm just telling you.
- Oh, okay, okay.

Pretty good, pretty good.
Okay, cool, so we'll collect.

And that's fine. That's perfect.
I'm going to gather up the cards together,

and gentlemen, this is my favorite part.

Even though the cards have been
thoroughly mixed...

- Look...
- I'm going to break your hands.

No, no, no, no.
Even though they're mixed,

I'm going to find your two cards

which is really impressive because
you haven't even picked them yet.

- That's true.
- I get excited by the shuffle.

Okay, so...
So let's do this here.

I'll go through here face up or face down.
Here's what I can do.

Reach in there and grab one out,
face up or face down.

It's your choice.

It's absolutely your choice. Face up.
Thank you so much.

I really appreciate that. I got it.

Truthfully, it doesn't matter
what the card is.

- If I know it, it's okay.
- I know.

What matters is which way you take it out.

So would you please reach in,
take take another one for me.

And you've got another one, face up.

- Very nice. The three of clubs. I love it.
- Yeah.

So now, gentlemen,
you can put the card back in.

You remembered it,
you showed it to the camera.

You can put it back in any way you like.

Face up or face down.
It's completely up to you.

Yeah, slide it in there. Absolutely.

So you see it going in, and which way,

do you want to put it
back in face up or...

I'm going face down.

Great. Slide it right in there for me.

We'll even leave it sticking out
so you see it there,

but to the very last moment.
Now, look.

At this point, some cards are face up,
some cards are face down.

- No.
- Look, I'm not even going to touch them.

- I'm just going to let them sit there.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And if I let them sit there,
they start to move all on their own.

They start to turn over,
so now every card is facing the right way.

Every card is now face-up.

Except for one.

Except for two. The only two.

And hopefully, lucky for me,
they are your two cards.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

Kostya Kimlat,
ladies and gentlemen.

Gentlemen, you can take your seats.

Are you taking the cards with you?
Is that okay?

- It is absolutely fine.
- Of course it's okay.

Okay.

Take a few of them.
I think we've got a rough idea

how this might be heading,
but come and join me round the fun here.

- Thank you.
- Let the guys sit down.

Ladies and gentlemen,
how spectacular was that?

And you know, uh,

who doesn't love to see
Penn pissed off like that?

I mean, that's a...

He's in a terrible mood now,
but that was really quite special indeed.

Um, this trick.
Is this one that you've come up with?

- Yes, it is.
- Okay.

Absolutely, yeah, you know,
some magicians, we create the magic.

That's what we love to do. Absolutely.

So really, the chance of them
getting this, certainly,

if they do it'll be having seen it
for this first time not knowing

- some of the tricks in the past?
- Absolutely right.

Now, I'm hoping that you will be
back here on stage performing with them.

Would that mean a lot to you?
Are you a fan of these guys?

Oh, absolutely, I've been a fan
for such a long time and it's a pleasure.

I mean, to be back here in Vegas
on the stage would be wonderful.

I think we're ready to hear your verdict.

Mr. Penn and Mr. Teller?
What do you have to say?

Okay.

I want to say right up front, I hate you.

Let's get that out of the way.

There is a bias here.

I hated the way you looked,

I hated the way you
cleanly handled the deck of cards,

I hated that I knew
the punchline when you started,

I hated that it was
clean all the way through,

I hated that I should have known it.

I hated it from the moment you walked out.

I tell you, when I saw him sitting there

with his beady little eyes...

I wanted you as dead as a hammer.

- I feel the love. Thank you.
- Right there.

No, you don't feel any love.
You feel nothing but hate.

I knew you were going to fool me
from the moment I saw you

sitting there and, yes, you did,
but who cares?

I'm the big dumb dumb.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

No it's not. No it's not. No it's not.
No it's not.

- No it's not. No it's not. Stop it.
- No.

Stop. Shut up. Shut up.
Bring that back into the air.

Hold it. He didn't...
Okay, let's...

- Bring that back up.
- Put it back. Put it back.

You fooled me.

You know for a fact

that it's hard to say the word, "Big"
without covering it with, "Dumb".

You fooled the big, dumb guy.

That doesn't mean jack.

Two-thirds of the people on here
fool the big, dumb guy.

When you bring that thing down,

when you say "Fooler, fooler, fooler",
is when you fool Teller,

and Teller handled the cards,

and he looked at it,
and he thought about it.

And you fooled him.

You fooled Teller.

- Now bring it down.
- Bring it down.

- Now it's a fooler.
- Wow. Wow.

- And here comes...
- Hope you choke on it.

- I don't like him.
- Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen...

The fabulous Kostya Kimlat,
ladies and gentlemen.

He did it. He fooled Penn and Teller.

Nice job.

Great job. Well done.

Now, one act has already
stumped Penn and Teller

and earned the priceless opportunity
to perform alongside them

in their amazing Vegas show.

Do I hear two?
Let's meet our next potential fooler.

Hello, I'm Frederick Falk

and I'm a close-up magician.

The lifestyle of any performing artist
is hard when they're first starting out.

I think having the life experience
of having been in the military

really helped me a lot
to prepare for that.

Everything goes into creating a character.

When I put on the wardrobe,
when I get ready for a show,

I go from being just another tall,
blond, young guy

to this character.

There are a lot of correlations
between the character that I've created

and why so much of the magic

that I create has to do with time.

That's what interests me.

Please welcome Frederick Falk.

Now, before I begin, I will
need the assistance of one volunteer.

Jonathan, I wonder if
you might assist me with this.

- Oh, certainly.
- Thank you.

Well, you know what, I had...

I was going to maybe get someone else
to do this for you. Is that okay?

- That's perfect, certainly.
- I'll tell you why,

because a friend of mine
is over from England,

and I thought it would be fun to have
someone else on stage anyway.

We haven't met.
You didn't know I was going to do this,

but you will know him,
ladies and gentlemen.

He's one of the stars of Star Trek,

Impossible films
with Tom Cruise,

his own film Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz,
so many more.

- Mr. Simon Pegg is right here.
- Oh, my God.

- Come on up, Simon.
- Yes!

- Welcome to Vegas, baby.
- Oh, my God!

- All right.
- I'll leave you guys to it.

- Hello. How you going?
- Thank you so much.

Well, thank you, Simon. This is...

This is a treat. This is amazing.

I'll try to not let this
distract me too much.

Now, Simon,

since I was a little kid,

I've always been fascinated with
the idea of time and how we as humans...

How we perceive and quantify it.

How we measure it
with clocks and calendars.

Not only that but how it affects us.

So I devised this little experiment
to measure just that.

Now, Simon, your job is very easy,

and really, the time on this watch
is completely irrelevant

as you will see in just a few moments.

So, Simon, all I would like you
to do is extend your index and thumb.

I'm going to turn the watch face down.

The reason I'm doing this is obviously
so I cannot see what you're doing,

and I want this to be random for you.

Simon, just spin the stem on
that watch until you are satisfied.

And when you are we will proceed.

- Okay.
- Okay, now push in the stem.

That's very important.
Make sure you feel it click.

- You felt it click?
- It went in.

This watch is now set.
I cannot further adjust this watch, okay?

Nobody can.
Now I'm going to show you...

I'm going to show the camera the time
that you stopped at.

Now I realize there's two jumbotrons
on either side of me

so while I do this, I'm going to
face the back wall, all right?

Remember this time, okay?
I'll do my best not to see.

- You've got it?
- Yes.

Okay. Now if you would please put both of
your hands out in front of you like this,

but palms facing each other
like a sandwich, okay?

Like this?

- Yep, there we go.
- Got it.

Lift it up.

I'm just going to sandwich
that right in there.

- Now, you can put them down on the table.
- Okay.

Whatever happens,
do not move from that spot.

We'll get back to you.

Here's where the envelope comes in.
I have one piece of paper.

And all this has on it is a
blank clock face, all right?

Simon, what I would like you to
do, is out there in space,

just imagine this clock, this blank clock,

but about 40 feet bigger. Okay?

- Okay.
- And just project the hands...

The time on the watch that you stopped at,

project the hands onto that clock,
all right?

- Got it.
- And I'm writing this down in Sharpie...

Permanent marker,
so I can't change my mind later.

I'm committed to this. Whatever happens.

You know what?
I got ahead of myself.

I have a little insurance policy.

If this doesn't work, for whatever reason,

sometimes magic goes that way,
you get to keep whatever's in here.

Just as a little consolation prize.

I'm all about customer satisfaction.

All right, go.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's see what we got.

Now, before I go any farther, Simon,

for the very first time out loud,
what was the time that you stopped at

that you saw on the watch for everybody?

Uh, I think...

I forgot.
No, I think it was 10 to 5:00?

Ten to 5:00, I was gonna say,
please remember,

otherwise this will be
a spectacular waste of time.

So, thank you for remembering.

Thank you for remembering that.

- It said 10 minutes to 5:00.
- It was, yeah.

- So it was 4:50?
- Yeah.

Magic is a beautiful thing when it works,

but every now and again things don't
go quite the way you wanted them to.

Thankfully that is not tonight.

Simon, that is exactly what I got. 4:50.

Nice.

Thank you.

Now, Simon, it's interesting that
you stopped at that particular moment

and here's why, and this is where
I'm getting back full circle

with the way we perceive
and experience time.

Simon, time really...

It's all in our heads, really,
and the reason I know that

is because there are no hands
on that watch whatsoever.

Look at it. Take a look.

Thank you.

Thankfully it worked.

So I get to keep my consolation
prize, but just for fun,

this is what you would've gotten.

These are old Morgan silver dollars.

These are a dollar apiece. I have one,

two,

three,

four silver dollars.

And this is a
Walking Liberty 50 cent piece.

This is 50 cents.

$4.50 and you stopped at 4:50.

Thank you to Mr. Simon Pegg.

You can go back to your seat.
Good job, Simon. Nice to see you.

Frederick Falk, ladies and gentlemen.

That was incredible. Fabulous work.

I love the way you're dressed. It's kind
of Victorian or Edwardian gentleman?

Very similar.
Somewhere in the middle, early 1900s.

How long have you been doing
this sort of routine

with that sort of routine?

When I left the military
and I moved to Los Angeles

and became a full-time member
of the Hollywood Magic Castle,

I knew I had to create
some kind of character.

If you do fool them,
what would it mean for you?

You're already, I guess
fairly well established

if you're over there at the Magic Castle.

There are a lot of people
when I was coming...

When I was growing up
and then the military and then they said,

"You want to go move to where
and become a member of what?

So this will be a good revenge on those...

Not that I'm...
I'm not a spiteful person,

but in a way it
would be very internally...

You ought to enjoy, if you want to turn
to that camera and just say

f*ck you to all of them.

No, I won't do it. I'll be a good person.

Oh, thanks.
That makes me a bad one?

Oh, well, thank you.

Okay, Penn, would you like to
give us your verdict?

Yes.

What really amazed us

was that you actually had
Simon Pegg onstage.

- Right?
- Which was pretty...

- That was magic itself.
- Pretty great.

Thank you.

We, uh, since Shaun of the Dead, we have
just been out of our minds for Simon Pegg.

He's just fabulous.

Simon's wearing a digital watch,

but I would say if we were able to find

the one person in the
United States of America

that's still wearing
a regular analog watch,

I don't think you would have
been able to do that trick.

Yes, yes, and no. I...

It's the no we're interested in.

- What kind of answer is that?
- Well, it's...

There's a style of watch

- that the bezel can be turned...
- Yes.

And you can set it up
beforehand like that.

You can pull it out
without changing the time,

and you can push it back in.
That's what we're saying.

That...

I mean, I don't want to say this,
but it is a gimmicked watch.

I... That's...

And I really, I'm truly not trying to be
argumentative and push this...

Well, you're doing a pretty bad job.

No, I mean truly... I mean, yes, yes...

But it's within your right to do that.

Well, no. I mean, yes... Yes, the hands...

Obviously the hands vanish. So I...
I mean, you could...

You could certainly could
inspect the watch, but I...

I mean, we're going to have
to go to Johnny Thompson, I believe.

Well, here's the thing.
Number one, you know, he's a Marine.

He's going to put up a fight.

Well, of course. Of course.

Really, I... I'm not...
I'm not trying to be belligerent.

No, no. I know you're not.
You're not at all.

Let's go upstairs, 'cause the
final decision can't rest with me,

and when there's a little bit of a,
kind of a gray area, shall we say,

we have a man in the house
who's backstage called Johnny Thompson.

One of the greats from the world of magic.

He knows everything about this,

so I'm going to ask for them
to give me their decision.

The verdict is...

You did

- not fool them.
- Oh.

- I'm afraid.
- No worries.

But you fooled the rest of us
and that's kind of what counts in one way.

It was a great performance.

Mr. Frederick Falk.

Ask for him by name.
Thanks, Freddy, take care, man.

Good luck.

Let's meet our next potential fooler.

My name is Chris Funk, The Wonderist.

The Wonderist means that
I am a practitioner of wonder.

The things that I incorporate
that make it me would be

my sense of humor, my wittiness, my hair.

And uh, I incorporate live music
into my show

to present the magic in a different way.

It's kind of miraculous
that I'm actually here right now.

In January in the middle of a show,
I was doing the Michael Jackson lean

and I tore my Achilles tendon

and the doctors actually said
that I shouldn't be walking

today.

That moment terrified me.

I had the mindset that I'm walking.

I'm going to suck it up
and I'm going to figure it out,

and I've been walking for about
three, four weeks now.

Just in time to make it on the show.

Please welcome Chris Funk.

Thank you, thank you.

Well, it's card trick time,

'cause what's a magic show without
an abundance of card tricks?

Besides unique and original.

Let's get crazy and have a bunch of you
select a couple playing cards here.

Looks like you three can hardly wait.

Control the excitement.

I'm going to have the three of you
actually just join me right here.

Would you mind doing that?

Round of applause for the three
most spectacular people in this row.

Eh?

Hello. What is your name?

- Shawn.
- What's your name?

- Tina.
- Tina.

- Lexi.
- Lexi.

All right, I'm going to have you
select some playing cards.

We're going to do this
in the fairest way possible.

Shawn, I'm going to have you cut about
half of the cards if you will, please.

Beautiful. And I want you
to turn them face-up like that

with a good little flair of the wrist,
if you don't mind.

Fantastic. And put them down,
face up right on top of this pack here.

- Face up?
- Yes. Excellent.

What we've done is we've marked a spot.

We marked a spot with some face-up cards
meeting some face-down cards.

I'm going to have you
take that first face-down card.

I want you to memorize it. You're going
to take the next card, memorize it,

you're going to take the last card,
memorize it.

Go ahead, memorize the cards.

There's a little camera
lurking behind you.

What I'm going to have you do
is show that camera.

I'm going to turn my back.
I don't want to see a thing.

Ready? Do it.

Have you done it?
Are you still there?

- We're here.
- Okay, good.

I want you to place the cards back
anywhere in the deck that you would like.

Go ahead, Tina.

Lexi, go ahead. Very good.

Shawn, I'm going to get you to give them

a quick little mix up just like this
if you don't mind.

Beautiful. Round of applause.

You can take your seats.

Didn't always know
I was going to be a magician.

No, I thought I was
going to be a musician.

Let me re-phrase that.

I was told I was going to be a musician.

Anyone feeling my pain? Anyone?

Couple of you? Yeah.

Parents broke the news to me
at the age of six

when they told me
I would be taking music lessons

on the violin.

Pretty awesome.

Anyways, I'd always wondered
what it would have been like

if I'd combined my love of music
with my love of magic.

Well, now's the time,
and this is the place.

I learned that music was powerful.

Music have the ability to move hearts,

minds,

booty,

and this evening, playing cards.

Starting with you, sir, I'd like you
to name the card that you selected

out loud for everyone to hear.

Four of spades.

Four of spades. All right.

Uh, that's a small number,
a little number, a fun number.

Sounds like a job for uh, Mozart.

We're going to play Name That Tune.

Get your phones out and Shazam it.

Tina. The card you selected was?

I had the king of hearts.

The king of hearts.
Ooh, hearts, love... Love romance.

Penn, I'd like you to name a composer.
Any one at all.

- Uh, Scott Joplin...
- Bach? Perfect.

Let's do something with Bach.

Um, Teller, what I need you to do
is name a song by Bach.

Bouree D major? I couldn't have
picked a better one myself.

Good choice, my friend.

Bourree in D major by Bach,
king of hearts.

Romance.

The king of hearts.

Last but not least,
the card you selected was?

- Ace of spades.
- Ace of spades.

Ooh, nice!

We got to do something special
for the most special card in the deck.

[SINGLE PIZZICATO

Chris Funk, ladies and gentlemen.

Great piece of work.

Chris Funk.

Awesome.

Uh, so Penn and Teller are going
to chat to each other,

see if they know what's going on.

But first of all we can't start
without talking about your

magnificent pompadour up there.

Thank you, did you want to try it on?

It's fantastic.

Where do you look for inspiration when
you're developing something like this,

when you're working on a new illusion?

What inspires you?

Uh, I try to look for my inspiration
in the most unusual places possible,

so, uh, it could be

the way I see someone dressed one day
might spark an idea in my head,

or a song that I listen to on repeat

just might make me
think differently about a concept, um...

That's where this violin routine
actually came from.

I was listening to a piece
and I just felt inspired on the road,

and all of a sudden
this popped into my head.

I got home, I quickly tried it out,
it worked, and I was fired up.

Well, I love the ending when
you were balancing the violin as well.

That... That alone I think
was worthy of a round of applause,

but certainly the whole effect
was fantastic.

Thank you.

It looks like P and T
have come to the end of their musings.

- Penn.
- You know, I started out,

Chris, as a juggler

and there was a time we went on Broadway

and my father came to see the show
and there's no juggling in the show.

And my father said, "You know, uh,

"it's nice to do all that magic stuff,

"but you should have one place
in the show where you juggle

"so the audience knows
you know how to do something."

Um, it is so wonderful

- that you can really play the violin.
- Thank you.

It's great to see someone
who can really do something.

Uh, you know all this.

What a nice routine.

- Uh, we know about rising cards...
- Yes.

It's nice to see a vanishing birdcage

being used to vanish something
besides a birdcage.

- Yep.
- And in all your classical music studies,

you know, you mentioned Mozart,
you mention Bach,

but you didn't mention our favorite,
you know, who is, uh...

Who is Balducci.

Does that ring any bells with you?

- One or two.
- Okay.

Or perhaps three.

One, two, or three, yeah.

So, uh... So I think we have
a pretty good idea how you did it.

Beautifully done.

We tell you enough on that?

So, for the rest of our sakes,

who really don't kind of understand
what's going on here,

Balducci was enough of a reference

and the other things he said to
make you accept that you didn't fool them?

- I didn't fool them. No.
- You didn't fool them.

You didn't fool them, but you gave
the rest of us a tremendous show.

It was fabulous.

The fabulous Chris Funk.

Thank you Chris. Amazing job.

Let's meet our next contender.

My name is Nate Dendy.

I am from New York City.

I consider myself both a
magician and an actor.

I always come at magic from an
actor's point of view.

If something needs to be dark,

I go to that dark place.

If it needs to be buoyant and happy,
I go to that place.

It needs to be creepy and weird,
I go to that place.

An empty stage is full of possibility.

Anything can happen,

but art in general is very fragile.

A lot can go wrong.

A lot does go wrong,
but the audience isn't aware of that.

Good magic should make you forget
the price of milk.

Just even for a second.

It just captures you for a moment
and then once it's done,

you're back where you started.

Now, as everyone knows,

the hardest thing in magic
is to perform without uttering a word,

because let's face it, any idiot can talk,

but to perform without words
is a real challenge.

Am I right, fellas?

Will you please welcome,

proving my point, Mr. Nate Dendy.

Thank you.

Wow, wasn't that something,
ladies and gentlemen?

Excellent, thank you.

- That was spectacular.
- Thank you.

- I might... Can I put these down?
- Yeah, put them down.

- I'll put these down.
- Take them home.

There you go. I adored that performance.
I just loved it.

That was wonderful, wasn't it?

What a joy.

What a joy. Thank you.

- Thank you.
- Is this a traditional act?

Is this an old kind of routine that the
guys might have seen or is it new?

This trick is based off of
a very old trick,

and I just decided to use it
with confetti instead of sand.

Which is what it normally is used with.

So they might know the history of it,
'cause they're pretty well-versed there.

- The plot, they definitely know.
- Yeah, yeah.

But the trick itself is something
I came up with.

And is that a substantial enough wrinkle

to pull the wool over their eyes,
do you think?

I don't know.
They're very smart, both of them.

Okay, well,
let's go over to the guys, then.

A beautiful, beautiful performance.

And you mentioned the sands of the desert.

- Yeah.
- I happen to be,

I believe, the only magician
in this country that likes that trick.

I love that trick.

Uh, we did not all the way
through, of course,

see the hat empty and one of the
techniques that's used in magic

that I just love

is when you need to get rid
of some evidence,

to get rid of that evidence in a mistake.

Uh, and that's a wonderful use of that.

It makes it really, really pretty

and makes it so you
are completely clean at the end

whereas you wouldn't be
without that mistake.

Now normally,
when magicians do a mistake like that,

it is pretty clear they're doing that,

but you had so much comedy with it,

it was tied so much with the magic wand,

and so beautifully done

that that would have blown by anybody

unless you were a little smarter
than the average bear.

Um, but it was a wonderful, wonderful act.

I don't want to go into it too much more,

if you feel that's enough,
because I don't want to bust it,

because this is an act that could become a
classic and you should be doing it the...

I tip my hat to both of you.

Uh, Nate, that was just
a beautiful thing to watch.

I enjoyed it.
Wasn't it gorgeous, ladies and gentlemen?

It was a wonderful piece of entertainment.

Thank you very, very much.

- Thank you, Nate Dendy.
- Thank you.

- Thank you so much, sir.
- Thank you.

Now let's finish with a bang.

Here's a trick from the most magical
pairing since chocolate and peanut butter.

Of course it's Penn and Teller.

Thank you.

And after doing Fool Us for a while,
I get asked now and again

what trick that I've seen
fooled me the worst.

People want to know
the baddest trick I've ever seen.

And the trick that fooled me the worst...

The trick was done for me by Teller.

And Teller's agreed
to do it again for me tonight,

but he won't do it for me,
'cause I've already seen it.

I want him to do it for somebody else.
I want somebody to play the part of me.

Someone to be Penn Jillette
up here onstage.

How about you, sir?
What's your name, please, sir?

- Charlie.
- Charlie.

Okay, I'm going to call you Penn.

It doesn't matter. Up here, Charlie.

I picked a good choice.
Look just like me, Charlie.

Right up here, Charlie. That's, uh...
That's Penn there.

And you'll stand over there
right next to Teller.

And just face off stage,
right there, would you please...

Right there, face off stage.

Let's you get you being
a little more Penn-like.

We'll give you some glasses
and we'll give you a ponytail right there,

and there you are.
Perfect match, isn't it?

Now, I'm not going to leave you
hanging here, Charlie.

- Okay.
- We're going to give you a headset.

Put that headset on.

Give it a try. I'll be able to talk to you
through this microphone over here.

Tell you what to say and do.
Is that microphone on?

- Hello?
- Yeah, that seems okay.

I'm going to talk to you right over here.

- Okay, um, can you hear me?
- I can hear you.

Good, say, "Good evening.
My name is Penn Jillette".

Good evening, my name is Penn Jillette.

I talk louder than that. Lean into it.

Move your arms a lot when you say it.
Give me my name.

Good evening, my name is Penn Jillette.

Beautiful. Now point to Teller.

"And this is my partner, Teller."

And this is my partner, Teller.

- We're Penn and Teller.
- We are Penn and Teller.

Now flash a peace sign.

There you go.

Ladies and gentlemen, and now the trick

that Teller uses that always fools Penn...

Ladies and gentlemen, Penn and Teller!

Say, "Teller pulled out
a perfectly ordinary deck of cards".

Teller pulled out an
ordinary deck of cards.

"He fanned them out
and I took one at random".

He fanned them out,
and I'm going to take one at random.

"I looked at it and memorized it."

I looked at it and memorized it.

"It was the queen of hearts."

It was the queen of hearts.

"But there's no way Teller
could have known that."

But there's no way Teller
could have known that.

"I put the card back in the deck."

I put the card back in the deck.

"And Teller shuffled them up real good".

And Teller shuffled them up...
Shuffled them up really good.

"Teller then bragged
he would pull my card out of thin air."

Teller then bragged he would
pull it out of thin air.

"Teller walked over and got into that
thing with the fans underneath it."

Teller walked over to that
thing with the fans in it.

"He put the cards on the floor."

He put the cards on the floor.

"He turned on the fans."

He turned on the fans.

"The air was filled with cards."

The air was filled with cards.

"How would he find my
queen of hearts in pitch darkness?"

How would he find my
queen of hearts in pitch darkness?

"Then suddenly, the queen of hearts!"

And suddenly, the queen of hearts.

"My name is Penn Jillette."

My name is Penn Jillette.

"And this is my partner Teller."

- And this is my partner Teller.
- "And we're Penn and Teller".

- And we are Penn and Teller.
- Take a bow.

Beautifully done.

Beautifully done, Charlie. It was like...

It was like looking into a mirror.

You were just wonderful there, Charlie.

- Thank you so much, that's Charlie...
- Thank you.

...playing the part of me.
It was like looking in the mirror, Teller.

It was like looking in the mirror.

Perfectly done. Perfectly done.

For Penn and Teller

and all of us here at Fool Us,
we thank you so much for watching

and I hope you have a magical night.
See you soon.