05x12 - Never Trust A Magician

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[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host,

Alyson Hannigan!

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome to "Penn & Teller: Fool Us!"

Tonight, we've got
a magical antidote

for whatever's ailing you.

I hope you're all prepared
for a healthy dose of wonder

and a tall glass of amazing.

Please welcome the cure
for the common show,

Penn and Teller!

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

- Should we go and sit down?
- I think you should sit down.

- We're going to sit down.
How you doing?

- I've got seats saved for you!

Yes!
[laughing]

Any magician who can fool
Penn and Teller

wins an all-expenses-paid trip
to perform

in their amazing
Las Vegas magic show.

So let the games begin
as we meet

our first potential fooler.

[fireworks crackling]

[lively music]

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- That's better!

I am Alexandra Duvivier,

and I am a French
close-up magician.

You have invented many things--
I mean Americans--

but Houdini--
your famous Houdini--

his name is inspired
from Robert-Houdin in France.

My dad was a magician.

In 1991, my dad bought
this magic shop,

Mayette Magie Moderne.

It is the oldest shop
in the world--



My dad never show me magic
when I was little.

I had to beg, and ask him
again and again,

"Please show me a trick,
please show me a trick."

Because he didn't want me
to be a magician.

And when he saw
that I had studied by myself,

worked on my own,
then he helped me.

The trick I'm going
to perform today

is one of my Dad's trick.

I'm very, very proud,
because my Dad trust

my talent enough

so I can perform it by myself.

So, um, that's it.
[laughing]

[cheering and applause]

- Say bonjour
to Alexandra Duvivier.

- [laughing]

[applause]

Wow.

I am so thrilled to be here

among all of you tonight.

What an experience.

I am so glad to be here,
and especially because

I have here, two of my heroes

just right in front of me.

It is--you can't imagine
what it is inside.

Wow.

Can I ask for your help,
gentlemen?

Would you join me onstage?
- Oh, with pleasure.

- Oh, yes!

[applause]

- Bonjour!
- Bonjour!

- Je m'appelle Penn.

Je suis American.
- Really?

- Yeah, oui.
- Are you?

Oh, I didn't even know you.
[laughter]

Okay.
- That's Teller.

- [laughs]
- Very nice to meet you.

- I'm so glad to be here,
and I am so thrilled.

You know why?

Because I had time on my hands,
you know, backstage,

and this way
I have performed the trick

for myself already.

So this way,
we can save five minutes

and we can chat
about something else,

because...
- [laughing]

- Oh, it'll be--
let me tell you what I've done.

I have taken my deck of cards.

I have taken half
of the cards face up,

half of the cards face down,
and I have shuffled those.

And I hardly recognize myself,
because I shuffle

like a crazy lady, you know?

Shuffle face up, face down--
it was a mess.

Unless I'm cheating you.

And you won't believe me,

but after I've snapped
my fingers--

let me show you--
like this,

and watch.

All the cards came back
in the same direction

except for five cards.

The five cards
of my prediction.

Watch, seven of clubs,

three of spades,
two of diamonds.

Yeah, right.

Jack of clubs,
and Queen of hearts!

Thank you so very much!

[cheering and applause]
All right.

Hello?
[laughing]

I'm so happy,
we have saved five minutes.

So, guys, the question:

Did I fool you?
[laughter]

- Well, I'm not gonna
call you a liar.

So I guess if all this happened,
we don't know how you did it.

- Okay, okay.

- We'd like to see it
ourselves.

- Okay, you want
to lose five minutes, I see.

Okay, you're the boss.

Let's do that.
- [chuckling]

- Okay, I give you that
for later.

Let's put that all
in the same direction.

So, like I've told you earlier,

I've taken my deck of cards.

I took half of the cards face up,

half of the cards face down.

Really face up,
really face down.

And I take a while,
because, you know,

I'm a professional,
and it's very, eh, precise.

But I have shuffled cards
face up, face down.

It's a terrible mess,
and you know some--

when you're a cardician,
you don't mix shufflings,

and I also mix shuffled the--
[gasps]

Oh, so bad...

Oh, it's okay,
but you know,

let's do it like this also.

It's fun, isn't it?

No, okay.

Uh, Penn, can you help me out?

Can you please shuffle?
Be crazy.

Not too much, because I know
you are crazy, okay?

[both laughing]

Oh, no, no, no,
not too much.

That's great.

Teller, may--
may you do the same?

Oh, great.

He is crazy also.
[clears throat]

And so crazy--voila.

Alors, you know what?

You know--ah.

Now, the French shopping bag.

Ooh, beautiful.
[laughter]

Okay, um--

Please, Penn, can you put
both of your hands inside

and check there's nothing
inside it?

Of course
there is nothing inside.

Just for you to be sure.

Eh, those cards a mess.

Okay, you know what?

Let's put them inside.

Shuffled cards.

Face up, face down.

Um...

And I would like you, Penn,
to shuffle some more.

Put both of your hand inside
and shuffle, shuffle.

Not too much.
- Oops.

- [gasps]

I told you not too much!
- It's okay.

I ruined the trick, I'm okay.
- It's okay.

It's fun.

But not too much fun.

Okay, so now...

Ooh.
[laughter]

Yeah, I know,
you're laughing.

I am not laughing.

Let's try.

Because I don't know
if you knew that,

but now cards are inside
of the bag,

and I can't see anything,
like if I am blind.

But I am not.

And...

you know, in France,
we love shuffling everything.

I mean, it's a passion,

it's a tradition, there.

You know bread?
Bread.

Do you know
the Three-baguette Monte?

- [laughing]
Yeah I do.

- Very famous in France,
the Three-baguette Monte.

Right?

We are so crazy.
That's why you like us so much.

Don't you?
[applause]

Yeah, what nutjob.
You're right.

Alors, mm...

I don't talk to you
about fromage

because fromage,
it's another story.

But let's...

see something now.

Like I told you earlier,
I snap my fingers...

[deep breath]

[gasps]
All the cards came back

in the same direction
except for five cards!

Watch out, watch out.

One, two, three,

four, and five.

Let me show you that
more precisely.

All the cards came back
in the same direction complete

except for five cards.

Penn, can you read out loud
those five cards, please?

- Seven of clubs,
three of spades,

two of diamonds,

Jack of clubs,
Queen of hearts.

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you, guys.

Thank you very much.

[exclaims in relief]

- Alexandra Duvivier!

[cheering and applause]

Ah.
- Thank you.

- That was very impressive.
- Thank you.

I'm glad to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

So, now, if your father's
a magician,

did you feel pressure
that you had to go

into the family business?
- No.

When he saw and understood
that I was really hooked

on magic, that's when
he helped me out.

- Oh, well he must be
so proud of you.

- He tells me so,
and I'm very lucky

he tells me so.
- Good.

- Yeah.

And it's a great trick,
you know.

- So is he your magic hero?

- He's one of my magic heroes,

but I have so many
magic heroes, you know?

You can't imagine inside
what it feels like

to see those two guys.
- Do you think they'll be able

to figure it out?

- I don't know,
but, you know, it's--

My dad has invented that trick
maybe 30 years ago...

- Ah.
- And he has

performed that trick
quite a few times to...

I mean, professionals--
great magicians--

and they didn't figure it out,
so I don't know

for Penn and Teller.
So...

- Okay, so teach me
in French...

- Yeah?
- How to say,

"Let's talk to Penn and Teller."

- Parlons a Penn et Teller.
- Parlons...

both: ...a Penn et Teller.

[laughter]

[both laughing]

[applause]

- So sweet.
- [laughing]

- I gotta tell ya, Alexandra,
I get asked all the time--

I have a son and a daughter--
if my son's into magic.

And the answer is,
my daughter is into magic.

And I'm so glad
she's here tonight to see you,

to see how great the daughter
of a magician can be.

'Cause your dad Dominique
was great,

and it's wonderful to see
a daughter of a magician here.

- Thank you.
- It's wonderful

to see women in magic,
it's just fabulous...

- Yeah, we have
too few women in magic.

- Many too few.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

- And I'll tell you, uh,
the good news is that

in the past two or three years,
uh, girls are coming up to us

all the time after the show

and showing us
card tricks and stuff.

So that will not be that way
for long.

Women are gonna take over this

like they've taken over
everything else.

Happily.
[laughter]

Um, and your style
is just fabulous.

So much charm, so much class.
- Thank you.

- Just wonderful.

And you know, we went a long,
long, long time

thinking about what you did--
a long time--

and we thought that
if you maybe had the cards

rounded in the corners,
that...

we could--might be able to--

But then after Teller drew
about twenty sketches

and after we talked
back and forth,

we looked at each other...

and it dawned on us
that we had one question

to ask you,
and one question only,

after all this time
you've been waiting.

How do you say "You fooled us"
in French?

- Aww!

Oh, my gosh,
we have a fooler!

- How do you say it?

How do you say
"You fooled us" in French?

- Oh, congratulations!

Yay!
- How do you say it?

- I don't know!
[all laughing]

I don't remember!
[laughing]

- Aww!

- Thank you so much.
- We have a fooler!

- Great to see you.
- Thank you very much.

Aww!

- Yay!

[cheering and applause]

- Al--
- Thank you!

- Alexandra Duvivier!
- Thank you very much.

- Thank you!

[cheering and applause]
Yay.

Thank you so much.
- Thank very much.

[cheering and applause]

- Penn and Teller
have been fooled!

Finally, they're just like
the rest of us!

Let's all take a break.

More "Fool Us" after this.

[cheering and applause]

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♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's reveal the identity
of our next magic marvel.

[fireworks crackling]

- Hi, I'm Christine Barger.

I am a ventriloquist

and Darlene, my dummy,

does mentalism.

When I was very young,

my brother was
in the hospital,

I spent a lot of time alone.

My parents gave me a puppet.

I didn't know ventriloquism
was a skill,

it's just something
I learned on my own.

It was a way that I used
to cope with everything

that was going on.

Then as I got older,
I felt it was important

to believe they were real,

because if I don't believe
they're real,

you won't believe they're real.

"♪ Ooh! ♪"

- So when I'm onstage,
I'm onstage with my friends.

They've got
their own personalities.

She's saying things
I would never say.

"Hey, Penn and Teller.

I can't wait to see you
onstage, big boys."

[ding]

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome Christine Barger

and Darlene Hollywood!

[cheering and applause]

- Hello!

I'm Christine Barger...
"And I'm Darlene Hollywood."

And we have been partners
for...

"A very long time.
[groans]"

[laughter]

[laughs]
It's not always be--

easy being partners.
Right, guys?

Yeah.

Um, actually,
we're still partners

because...
"I have magical powers.

♪ Ooh! ♪"

[laughter]

You think you have
magical powers.

"I do!

I can read and control
people's minds."

Well, I would love
to see you do that.

"I need a guy.

Someone young, rich,

handsome, and single!"

Y--you know what,
I actually saw

somebody backstage
that I think

might be perfect for you.

"Really?"
I did.

Um, I bet he'd come out here
and help.

"Okay, go ahead and get him."

Uh, sir, could I get you
to come on out here?

[cheering and applause]

"Yo!

It's Carrot Top!"
- How are you--hi!

Hi--hi, how are you?

Hi, how are you?
- "Oh--ooh!

Ooh!"
- Sorry.

- [laughing]
"Oh, hello, handsome."

- Hi, how are you?
- Hello, hello.

- I'm good.
- "Uh, I can read

and control people's minds.

Is it okay if I do that
with you, sir?"

- Uh, good luck. Okay.
- "Okay.

I bet there's something
in there, somewhere."

[laughter]

Okay.
So, uh, okay,

here we go.

I am going to have Christine
show you a list

of random words..."
Okay, this list

that you happen
to have with you?

"Exactly.

And, uh, I want you
to look at that list.

I've already decided
what I want you to think of

and what I want you to draw.

She's gonna give you
a drawing pad..."

Oh, let me do that.

Give that to you.
- Okay.

- "And you are gonna look
at this list,

and you are going
to choose a word

that you think you could
easily and quickly

draw a picture of

that the audience will recognize.

Okay?"
I guess you're gonna quickly--

- It looks like
a pretty bright crowd.

All right.
- Yeah, yeah!

All right.
- Okay.

- All right, there we go.
- Oh, wow.

Okay.
- "All right, pick something

you could easily and quickly
draw a picture of."

- Oh! Uh, okay.
- "I'm gonna send it

to you now,
so it's not so hard."

- I'm telling you,
it's hard to read.

- [goofy vocalizing]
- [laughing]

"Oh, yeah, that's how
to draw, right there.

Oh, baby, yeah!"

[goofy moaning]
- I'm really horrible...

- "Are you almost done?
I'm almost done!"

- Yeah I'm done,
I'm pretty much done.

- [goofy moaning]
It's all right.

"So, you've drawn it.

I'm pretty sure I,
uh, sent you successfully

what I wanted,
but don't show me yet."

[mic pops]

"Uh, what I wanted you to draw

is something that is, uh...

cute, small, furry,
and fun to play with."

[laughter]

What did you want him
to draw?

"A dog."
A dog?

Oh, okay.

Uh, well, that would be a miracle

if he drew a dog from a list
of 40 random words.

- "Yep, I sent it to him.

I'm pretty sure
we have a strong connection.

Let's see!
Carrot Top, what did you draw?"

- Well, this is supposed
to be a dog.

- That the dog!
- [laughing]

- Wow!
- That was--it's very stressful

when you're like, "Ah!"
- "That's good, no!

That's good!"
- Yeah, I have a dog.

I just left my dog at home.
I know what a dog look like.

Excellent! Here, I'm gonna go
ahead and take that from you.

"That was amazing!"
I'll take that

from you, too.
- Thank you, thank you.

- Excellent-- Oh!
- Okay, there we go.

- And there it goes!
[laughter]

Eww!
- Thank you.

- Um, all right--
- Do not try that at home.

"So..."
- Did I fool you, there?

[laughter]

- Um, are we--and there was
something back here?

"Yes, that's a gift for him."
A gift for him? Okay.

- Oh, how nice.
- So, we, uh--

I guess she got you
a little gift, there.

- Oh, how nice.
Thank you so much.

- "Go ahead and open it up
and let's see whatever--

what it is."
- This is very sweet.

- "Go ahead and show everyone
what it is."

- I'm gonna.
Hold on.

It's another dog, right?
- Aww.

Is that a little dog?
It's Darlene!

- "Yeah! It's got my number
on it, so call me later!

Thank you, Carrot Top."
- Thank you, everybody.

Thanks for having me on.
- "Thank you very much!

Nightly at the Luxor!
- I'm calling you!

- I will totally call you!"
- It's a 702 number!

[applause]

Thank you.

- Christine Barger!

And Darlene, of course.
- "And me, I'm the star!"

- I'm so sorry.
- "I'm the one who did it all."

- You did.
- It's all her.

- Yeah.
- I'm just kind of here.

- I know.

Darlene, is this
your first time in Vegas?

- "It is."
- Yeah?

What do you think?
- "Oh, it is crazy."

- It is.
[laughter]

So how long have you two
been partners?

- We've been together
for over...

[clears throat]
twenty years.

- Ah...
[laughter]

So, since you were born.
[both laughing]

- Yes, exactly!
- Yes, okay.

- "Yeah, we just turned 21."

- Ah.
- [laughing]

Perfect.
Well, that's the best time

to come to Vegas.
- "Of course."

- Yeah.

And, um, do you ever
get in fights?

- Sometimes, yeah.
We live together.

- Oh.
- Yeah.

Luckily, they don't have
to do that, 'cause it's...

- Right.
- Hard to live

with your partner.
- Yes.

We see each other
every single day.

- Yeah, so what's a typical day
in your household like?

- Uh, well, we, uh--
we get up...

"Around noon."
Yeah.

"I kick her out of the house
so I can have a guy over."

- Ooh!
[laughter]

All right, well, let's go
to Penn and Teller...

- All right.
- And see if you fooled them.

- Hello, Christine.

You know, we have so much
in common,

except I don't usually choose
to make my dummy talk.

[laughter]

- I move his head around,
I make him smile,

but I don't throw my voice
into him.

You know, um,
ventriloquism and magic

have always been together.

You know, our buddy
David Copperfield started out

as a ventriloquist.

You knew that, I'm sure.

You know, ventriloquism
is a lot of what, uh--

of what magic is.

You know, it's a lot
of the same kinds

of, uh, illusions
that are going on.

And I want to say
that, technically,

you're wonderful.

You're really wonderful.
- "Thank you so much!"

- Well, you're not
doing anything,

but, uh, Christine's doing
a wonderful job,

just a fabulous job.

And speaking of illusion,
um, the way you did this--

which is, uh, which usually
is seen as mentalism--

is actually a, uh--
a little more of an illusion.

And the point of view--
you know, we're sitting

back here,
and from this point of view

there's a really
clear character,

and you can't see any of the--

any of the secret stuff
you're doing

to make the eyes move
and so on.

And I also think
if we were up there closer,

we'd also see a lot more
about how the trick is done.

Is that right?
Not just how her mouth

and eyes move, but maybe, uh--
maybe more than that.

Is that right?
- "It's quite possible."

- [laughing]
- You gotta ask her.

Again, I don't know.
She knows.

- "I know they know."

- Aww.
[laughter]

Well, okay,
you didn't fool them.

- Thank you.
- But you were wonderful.

- Thank you so much.
- Christine Barger!

- Thank you!
"Bye!"

[applause]

- We've only just begun
messing with Penn and Teller,

more "Fool Us" on the way
after this.

[cheering and applause]

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♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Our next magician
just might leave you

with a lasting impression.

Let's meet him now.

[fireworks crackling]

- I'm Jamie Allan,
and I'm the iMagician.

My show is all about
mixing magic together

with technology.

When I was a kid,
I used to dream so much.

I was always fascinated
with technology and magic,

so I created my own tricks.

But I never really had
the confidence

to, um, actually perform them
for an audience.

My mom was a singer.

Uh, her name was Kay Kennedy.

She had just celebrated

her 70th birthday with us.

About six months after that,
we found out she'd got cancer.

And my mom
was very encouraging

to just, you know, carry on.

Just carry on
living your life.

When I came up
with this show, iMagician,

which was all
of my technology ideas

that I'd had across the years,
and I started

frantically building
and developing

all these ideas.

And I managed
to get in onto TV

and my mom was able
to see that.

And that piece of magic
is the one

that I'm gonna do tonight.

I've done bigger effects
with technology,

but tonight's effect
will always be special.

And, eh, I know that my mom

would be very,
very proud of that.

[cheering and applause]

- Please welcome the iMagician,
Jamie Allan!

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I do magic with tech,
and I have found

that adults tend to react
to new tech

in a very similar way
to a child reacting

to a magic trick.

You know?
It's the same sense of wonder,

but you just perceive it
slightly differently.

I hope you enjoy this--

this one is very,
very close to me--

and I call it "Digital Art."

Please watch.

[soft orchestral music]

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[cheering and applause]

- Jamie Allan!

- Thank you very much.

- Wow!

Aww, thank you!

That was so beautiful.
- Oh, thank you, thank you.

- So now you're known
as iMagician.

- Well, I was fascinated
with technology.

When I was a boy,
I had all the Ataris

and the Game Boys,
and then when I was, um, 19,

I designed a magic trick
that used a television set,

and I became the guy
with the TV set...

- Oh.
- And I was putting things in

and out of the TV set,
and I was on the TV set.

And, um, it gave me, like,
a little bit of an identity

at the time,
but it wasn't until many,

many years later
when I realized, boy,

you know, I've--I've come up
with all these ideas

for tech magic, and I should
really wrap them into a show.

And that's when we created
our show, iMagician

which is, uh,
a touring theater show.

It's all about magic and tech
and holograms

and lasers and really,
really cool stuff

with smart phones
and devices and things.

- So what would your
dream trick be?

- Nowadays, the one thing
everybody has in their pocket

is a cell phone,
so I came up with this trick

that we can make all
of the people's cell phones

ring at the same time,

and also individual
people's phones.

And this became a big thing,
and once we cracked that,

that was, uh--
that was amazing.

And the reaction for it

was, um, like nothing
I'd found.

It was the thing
I'm most proud of.

that we're gonna run
into the show this year.

- All right,
well I'm gonna figure out

if these guys figured out
your tricks.

Penn, Teller?

- Yeah--oh, yes, Jamie,
very nice.

Very, very nice.

You know, what--
what seems so weird

about this show,
is that the audience and we

watch the same act,

and we see very,
very different things.

- Yes.
- So the audience sees

watching this--
uh, anybody seeing this,

and your introduction
leads us down that path--

is that we're seeing
a really modern,

cutting edge
piece of performance.

That this is really using
the most modern technology

that we've all unboxed at home,
had a great time with.

[applause]

But...

that's wonderful.

But the more you know,
the more you realize

that not only is this
a completely modern routine,

but it's also very,
very traditional.

And it's very respectful

to, uh, magic
that's been around

for over a hundred years.

Many people don't know
that magicians were

the cutting-edge of film...

And one of the first things
they did was film-to-life.

And they would have
a movie projected

and then the magician
would light a cigarette

of the person on the screen--
which, of course,

you couldn't do...

Because times have changed.

You couldn't do
the cigarette thing.

And then you just take
that basic idea--

which is so magical
and so beautiful,

of film coming to life,
and move it into things

you can actually hold
in your hands.

And it actually makes

the pioneers that
you're building on,

uh, it makes their stuff
much, much better

'cause it's happening
right there.

It's just--it's a delight
to watch the flowers

just springing out
of everywhere.

And I don't know,
you couldn't really tell

where things were,
uh, taking place--

but there's that
wonderful snow storm

that felt to me
like it was in China.

It was just a, uh--
it was just fabulous

from beginning to end,
and just beautiful.

And I love the fact
the audience at home

watched something that was
very, very modern

and we watched something
that was so respectful

and traditional,
and just plain beautiful.

Did I sneak some stuff in there,

you know what I'm talking about?

- I know exactly what
you're talking about, yeah.

- [laughing]
- I'm just--

I--I just thank you
for having me on your show...

- It's just wonderful.
- And it was just wonderful...

to come and work here
in the States.

This was a big deal to me
to come and play in Las Vegas.

I know that my mom would have
been very, very proud of that.

And, uh, I'm very pleased
to be here,

so thank you both
very, very much.

- Well, thank you so much,
Jamie. It's wonderful.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
Jamie Allan!

- Thank you very much.
- Thank you.

[applause]

- We have more magicians,

including Penn and Teller
themselves.

Stick around.

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's meet our next trickster.

[fireworks crackling]

- I'm an Irish kid from Boston,
Massachusetts,

and I am a mentalist.

My family worked in state fairs,

so I would go out and hang out
with all the magicians.

I just kind of felt
like I belonged to

doing something like that.

Once I had started learning
about how people act

and how people behave,
it really interested me.

And then I found mentalism.

Penn and Teller,
I mean, they're two of

the smartest people in magic,

so fooling them
is not an easy task.

The routine that I'm doing
for Penn and Teller

is something I've been
working on for about 10 years.

And just recently it hit me
right in the head

how to do it, so honestly,
I just hope you like it.

[cheering and applause]

- Let's hear it for mentalist
Christopher Grace!

[applause]

- Thank you.

I'm often asked
as a mentalist, uh,

"Can you predict the future?"

Uh, no, I can't.
I can't do that.

However, I think
I can do something

that is equally as cool.

But I do need
to borrow something

from someone in our audience,
so if you have a phone

that I could borrow,
please just hold it up

in the air and let me see where--

I see a lady right there,
very good.

Would you--
can I borrow your phone?

You can stay right there, yeah.

And, uh, Penn, Teller,
I'd like you both

to join me onstage.

In the meanwhile
I'm gonna grab her phone.

Please have a seat.

Penn and Teller, everybody.

Thank you.
Be right back.

[cheering and applause]

Thank you.

Very good.
Now I just need

to, uh, open up your--
your contacts here,

if that's okay?

I just wanna make sure
I get that, all right.

Ooh, I think I've got it.

All right,
thank you very much.

Good.

Hi, guys.

All right, so here's what
we're gonna do.

Uh, Penn, I'm gonna have you
open up, uh, her contacts...

- Okay.
- In just a minute.

Just slide this out of the way.

You'll see I put it
right there for you,

so you can see it there,
and I'm gonna have you open it

and you're gonna
scroll through,

and you're gonna see
all her contacts.

There should be quite a few
in there.

Good, do we see it?
- I do.

- Okay, you can lay the phone
on the table, there.

So what I'm gonna have you do
is you're gonna scroll

through the phone,
and just pick a contact

that just kind of
jumps out to you.

- Okay.
- And before you touch it,

I'm going to give you a pen,

and you're gonna note
the phone number

on this, uh, marker board
right here.

- Okay.
- Okay?

And we're gonna share it
to the world.

- Okay, should I do that right now?
- Yep, please pick a number,

I'm gonna turn away.

Just tell me when you, uh--
when you have it.

- Okay.
- Got it?

And just copy the number down
on the board nice and big

right across the board.

And you can turn the phone
face down

once you have the number.
- Okay.

[curious music]

♪ ♪

- All set?
- Uh, yes.

- Okay, good.

You can lay the board
face down...

and, yeah, turn
the phone off as well.

We'll give that back
to our audience member

in just a moment.

So here's what
we're going to do.

I have a board here,
I'm going to try

to figure out
what that number is.

- Okay.
- To do that, Teller,

what I'd like you to do is,
I want you to imagine

a giant keypad
right in front of you

of any size
that you like, okay?

And I'm gonna need you...
[laughter]

Yeah, yeah.
[laughing]

Yeah.

And I need you to mime

pressing numbers
on that keypad.

But Penn, what I'd like
you to do is lift the board up

and show Teller the, uh--
the phone number, all right?

Now, Teller,
look at the area code.

See the area code?

In any order that you like,
punch out the area code.

♪ ♪

Okay, good.

All right.

Now, uh--uh, Penn, what I'm
gonna have you do as well--

I want you to look at the, uh--
the next three digits there,

the prefix, and I want you
to imagine you have

an enormous rotary telephone...
- Okay.

- Okay?
And I want you

to turn those numbers,
in any order that you like.

- Okay.
- And, uh, Teller,

while he's doing that,
I want you to continue

pressing numbers,
but I want you to do

the entire phone number,

and keep going
all the way through.

All right, go ahead.

- [imitating rotary dial]

- Very good.

Very good.

All right, keep going,
keep going, keep going.

We get--we need
the rest of the number.

Um...
- [imitating rotary dial]

- Almost got it, almost got it.

Keep going, guys, keep going.

Uh...

[laughter]
All right.

Almost there, almost there,
almost there.

Uh...

[laughter]

- [imitating rotary dial]

- [laughing]

Very good, almost got it.

All right, think I got it.

All right, stop.

- [imitates rotary dial click]
- Okay.

- [continues imitating]
- I made a mess.

[laughter]

I've got a final...

number, here.

- One less.
[laughter]

- I've got a final number now.
[laughter]

[laughs]
So I'm gonna show you my number--

and then make sure these
are all stuck down.

Could--actually, Teller,
could you turn the board

towards you so that
we don't see it just yet?

Very good.

So this is, uh--
this is what I have.

Right there.



Uh, Penn, could you grab
the board, please?

- Yes.
- Would you come over here...

- Okay.
- And just lay the board

right on the edge, there,
so we can...

- Facing out?
- Yes, so--

so we can see it, sure.
- [hums dramatic tune]

[dramatic exclamation]



both: 8-7-1-4-7-5-3.

[cheering and applause]

- Thank you, guys.

Appreciate it.

- Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Christopher Grace!

Ah!
[laughing]

That's very impressive.
- Thank you very much.

- Wow, okay. So that was cool.
- Thank you.

- Do you, uh, do a lot
of phone number tricks?

- Not really, no.

It's something that
I've kind of been toying with

for a few years.

It's, uh, taken quite a while
to kind of get it

to this stage,

so, um, it's new-ish.

- That's pretty brave
to do a new trick...

- Yeah, yeah.
- In front of these guys.

- It's risky.
- So, is it harder

to practice mentalism
than cards?

- Yeah, uh, for sure.

Mainly because you--
you really don't have

the opportunity to rehearse
mentalism in private.

You need a mind to read.
- Oh, true.

- Unless you're gonna use
your own mind.

Nobody gonna want
to see that, so...

- Right.
[laughter]

All right, it's time
to go to the boys.

Penn, Teller.

- Ah, Chris.

There's always this problem
with mentalism, right?

'Cause it starts out
in the supernatural...

And you doing it

hundreds of years ago,
this would have been a--

a religious experience,
a soothsayer, something else.

There'd be some sort
of demonic thing.

But now, you're doing a thing

where instead of the, uh,
demon taking possession

of a little girl,

it's instead taking possession
of a phone.

You found a way
for the supernatural

to possess her phone,
and that's the force

you're dealing with, there,
it's the--

not the power
of the supernatural,

but the power of the phone,
in this case.

Which we all have with us,
and probably means more

to people nowadays than these
sort of supernatural thing.

And, uh, it was a good,
uh, prediction

of a phone number.

And it also has, uh--
instead of the audience member

just having to visualize,

and just doing
that kind of stuff,

you had us doing all sorts
of stupid pantomime...

- [laughing]
- And whenever you get a chance

for us to do stupid pantomime,
we love it.

But we think we gave you

probably a sneaky little idea,
there, too.

- So, do you think they know
how you did it?

- Yeah, I think they got it.
- All right, well thank you.

Christopher Grace!

- Thank you very much.
- Thank you.

- Thank you.

[applause]

- Up next,
we get Penn and Teller

out of those chairs
and up on their feet.

You'll see the masters perform
right after this.

[cheering and applause]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[cheering and applause]

- This show has inspired
many magicians

to learn new tricks,
and that includes

Penn and Teller!

Before this show got started,
Penn wasn't much

of a card trick guy,
but things have changed.

Performing this trick
for the first time

on television, here is Penn!

[cheering and applause]

- You know, this trick uses
a few skills that I have--

that I've developed, uh,
a little bit more

for this trick.

Now, you know,
you all watch this show

to see people lie,
cheat, swindle, and steal.

All immoral acts,

and you come to watch them do it.

But even so, magic is based
entirely on trust.

If you just take our word for it

and accept it on faith
without evidence,

well, that's not magic at all.

That's religion.
[laughter]

So you decide exactly
how much to trust us.

Now, I'm gonna do a card trick,
as Alyson said,

and I have a deck right here.

Now, the way I got this deck
was our crew buys them

by the, uh, gross, and when
it's time to do a trick,

they--they open them up,
they throw away

the advertising cards
and the Jokers,

and then they give them
a shuffle

so they're all mixed up.

Right here in front of you.

Now, the problem is,
you know that magicians

do false shuffles,

As a matter of fact,
I don't even remember how

to do a non-false shuffle
anymore.

That was a false shuffle.

So I'll show a few of you

that these cards
are mixed up like this.

But then I can ask you--
you can either trust me

right now, or just--
does anybody want

to shuffle these?

You wanna--you wanna
give them a shuffle?

You can give them a shuffle,
yeah.

Give--give some of those
a shuffle, yeah.

Anybody else want
to shuffle them?

Or is it just one guy--
oh, you want to shuffle?

Goodness gracious, okay.

Well, I can't give one card
to each person,

Anybody else want--you had
your hand up, here.

You can--
you can shuffle them, too.

Yeah, yeah, just give them
a little--

just give them
a little shuffle, there.

Who has the cards?
I'll--I'll take them.

Got them all shuffled, there?

We'll just--we'll just
mix them, uh--trick, here.

And--and who else?
Get someone else here.

Good, good, good.

I guess I got
a full deck, here.

I'll give half the deck to you,

and half the deck to you.

Now, you don't sort them
at all, but you sort them.

By clubs, hearts, spades,
diamonds--

whatever order you want--

and an ace to King
all the way up.

You sort them as quickly
as you can, okay?

Now, I want ten seconds, okay?

So I'm gonna say "one."

When I say "one,"
the rest of you, all together,

count to ten,
but don't go too fast.

Try to give me a full ten seconds.

Give me a chance at this,
'cause it's really not...

easy.

Okay, got them all showing?

- Yes.
- Every one in your hand?

- Absolutely.
- One!

audience: Two... three...

- Hold them up, hold them up.

audience: Four... five...

six... seven... eight...

nine... ten.

- Okay, okay, okay.
Now sort them.

Clubs, hearts, spades,
diamonds...

and ace to King.

Okay, now...

some people can memorize

about a half a deck
in ten seconds.

Those people
are called savants,

or if you wanna be unkind,
idiot savants.

Now, it's possible
I'm one of those

and I just memorized those

in ten seconds,
but the problem is that, uh...

magicians can't be trusted.
[laughter]

So if I've lied to you
every season on this show,

you may wonder,
"Can he really memorize it?"

And that's where
the trust comes in.

'Cause if you trust me,
that I can

really memorize those,

you're gonna see
a juggling trick.

If you don't trust me,
you're gonna see a magic trick.

And juggling tricks
and magic tricks

are very, very different,
'cause in juggling tricks,

you trust I can do
what I say I'm gonna do.

Like I say, "Oh, I can juggle."

And you trust...

that I can juggle.

[cymbal crashes]

[applause]

But in magic,
it's entirely different.

I say I'm gonna
saw a woman in half,

and you trust
that I'm not really

gonna saw a woman in half.

[laughter]

You've got them all sorted?
- I do.

- Yes.
- Okay.

I've gotta trust you, here,
and so is the audience, okay?

I'm gonna trust you--
when I say the name of a card,

if you have it,
put that card in my hand.

Now, I'm trusting you to put it
in my hand, and quickly,

and the audience
is trusting you not to put

a card in my hand
that isn't that one, okay?

I have memorized his cards--
maybe--

and if I know all his cards,

I know what yours are
by elimination.

Okay.

So, I should know every card
in both hands.

So let's start with, um...

uh, spades or hearts.

Name spades or hearts.

- Hearts.
- Hearts.

We're gonna do hearts
from ace to king.

That's the way
we're gonna do it.

You have the ace of hearts.
Put it in my hand.

Put it in my hand.
Now, see?

There's the ace of hearts
right there.

And you have the two of hearts.

You have the two of hearts.

You also have
the three of hearts.

It's gonna go faster than that.
Three of hearts.

Get 'em sorted,
put your hearts on top.

Put your hearts on top.
There's the three of hearts.

Four of hearts.

Gonna go faster.
Five of hearts.

Six of hearts.

But you have
the seven of hearts.

You have the eight of hearts.

You have the eight of hearts,
give it to me!

You have the nine of hearts.

You have the ten of--
you have--

Ah.
[stammering]

You have the ten of hearts.

Jack of hearts,
Queen of hearts,

King of hearts, right there.

Those are the hearts
right there.

Done.

[cheering and applause]

Now, let's do, uh...

Spades or, uh, diamonds?

- Spades.
- Spades, we'll do spades

from the top down
starting at King.

Put your spades on top,
get them ready.

Get the Kings ready,
it's gonna go

a little faster this time.

You have the King of spades,
you have the Queen of spades.

You have the jack of spades,
you have the ten of spades.

You have the nine of spades,
you have the eight of spades.

You have the seven of spades,
you have the six of spades.

You have the five of spades,
you have the four of spades.

You have the three of spades,
you have the two of spades.

And you have the ace of spades!

That's what you have right there!

[cheering and applause]

Okay, we'll do, uh--
we'll do diamonds.

Woman right there
with the glasses in the blue,

up or down?

Start with ace
or start with king?

- Ace.
- Up.

Start with ace?

You have the ace of diamonds.
Two of diamonds.

Two of diamonds,
three of diamonds.

four of diamonds,
five of diamonds.

Six of diamonds,
seven of diamonds.

Eight of diamonds.
You also have nine of diamonds.

Ten of diamonds,
Jack of diamonds.

Queen of diamonds,

and King of diamonds,
right there.

Those are the diamonds.

[cheering and applause]

Now I'll do this
the hardest way.

I'm gonna close my eyes.

Take your clubs,
sort them out,

and hold them up
to the camera.

Maybe over here
so they show up there.

I got my eyes closed.

Okay, just hold up
your whole hand of clubs.

You got it held up, there?
Tell me.

- Yep.
- I'm trusting you.

Here we go.

Ace, two, three,
five, seven, nine,

ten, Queen, King.

Are those the ones you have?
- Yes.

You have four, six,
eight, Jack,

is that right?
- That's correct.

- Thank you so much.
Right back to your seat.

Watch your step there.

And thank you so--
thank you so much.

Juggling trick or magic trick?

You tell me.

[cheering and applause]

I believe I've popped
my collar button.

I was so nervous.
- [laughing]

- That's wicked hard.
- That was amazing.

Thank you to all of tonight's
outstanding acts,

and thanks to all of you
for watching "Fool Us" at home!

Until next time, goodnight.

That was impressive.

[cheering and applause]