08x02 - Magic with a Wolf

[bunniefuu]

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♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn
and Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan.

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♪ ♪

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- Quick warning... what
you are about to see

may be hazardous
to your bad mood.

Tonight's magic could
cause sudden wonder,

abrupt amazement,
and severe enjoyment.

Common side effects of "Fool Us"

include, but are not limited to,

laughter, inspiration,

improved attitude,
and rapid applause.

Now let's welcome our
miracle cure for the blues,

Penn and Teller.

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Penn and Teller have to
bust each trick they see.

And the moment they
don't, that magician

becomes a Fool Us trophy
winner and a performer

in Penn and Teller's
Las Vegas Spectacular.

With that in mind, let's
meet our first magician.

- Like most magicians, I
began my career in magic

doing sleight of hand.

I learned how to work
with small objects up close,

and it was fun for me.

But there was something missing.

Secretly, I dreamed
of playing large theaters

before big audiences.

Cards and coins were not
a way to reach that dream.

Then I discovered mentalism,
a form of magic designed

to amaze a packed theater.

Mentalism uses all my
skills, including acting,

because a mentalist must
seem so real that the audience

forgets they're being tricked.

The trick I will
perform tonight,

I designed for the toughest
possible audience... magicians.

It has a truly unique method.

I'm so honored to perform
this for Penn and Teller

that I might retire
it after tonight.

It could fool them.

But even if they figure it out,

I hope they'll appreciate
my very special technique.

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- Put your hands together
for the magical mind

of Germany's Yann Yuro.

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- Alyson, Penn and Teller,

tonight, I will show you the
most profound magic trick

any of you have ever seen.

- Good.
- Yeah.

It will reveal the essence of
what it means to be human,

I hope.

Until now, it has never
technically worked.

But I have a really
good feeling about this.

Alyson, would you mind holding
on to this envelope, please.

- Sure.
- Thank you.

Please don't open it.

There is a prediction
inside about the most

human thing there is, art.

I brought pictures.

Alyson, where would
you like me to place

this picture, on which easel?

- Um... two.

- Your choice.

Then, where would
you like the next picture?

- Oh, let's go four.

- Number four.

Try not to be
influenced by anything.

Resist my mental powers.
- OK.

- Where would you like this one?

- Five.
- Number five.

Now, Alyson, the
next picture will be

your last actual choice.

Make sure it's a good one.

Where would you like this one?

- One.
- Number one.

And that leaves you
no choice but to put

the final picture,
which is this,

to put in position
three, in the middle.

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Alyson.
- Yeah.

- This tells me
everything about you.

- Does it?
- It does, yes.

Look, you put the
helicopter in position one.

That means in first place.

So you are a very
diligent parent.

- Ah.

- Obviously, of course,

you put the Uakari
in second place.

This is the ugliest of
all monkeys, I think.

You don't. You put
it in second place.

So if you like this, you are
probably a dentist, right?

You put the magician
in the middle.

Because in your
core, in your middle,

you are a huge fan of me, right?

You put the Alps
in position four,

towards the end,
because you don't

really care about the Alps.

- [gasps]
- That's fine.

The Alps are annoying
for us Germans.

They just block our view
of the Mediterranean.

And finally, New York
City in the end, last place.

If you don't like New York City,

you probably don't
enjoy life, right?

[laughter]

I know you.

I know you so well, Alyson.
- Well...

- In fact, I even
knew you would put

the pictures in this order.

- Oh.

- So please open the
envelope and take out

all the papers that are
inside and hand them to me.

- There are...

- There are white papers inside.

Can I see?

Can I take this...

Where did you put them?

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Do you guys...

It doesn't matter.

Give it to me.

This is, uh... this
is not a problem

Let's just imagine
you had been holding

on to this the whole time, OK?

Penn and Teller, for the
purposes of my magic,

you didn't see
what you just saw.

- Exactly.

- Edit a few seconds
in your heads.

- Sure.
- Thank you.

Alyson.
- Huh?

- Would you please
take out the papers

and hand me the prediction?

- Oh, look, papers.

- Yeah.
- Wow.

- Thank you.

You can just drop the
envelope on the floor.

See, the prediction
says, your choices will be

number one helicopter, right?

- Yeah.

- Number two, the U... the Alps.

- Oh.
- Doesn't matter.

Number three, the magician.

Correct.
- Hey.

- Number four...

N... New York City, also wrong.

Number five, the Uakari.

Why? Look, you
had this backstage.

You could've at least
printed them in the right order.

[laughter]

You know what?

That's it. I'm done. Sorry.

- Aww.

♪ ♪

Although...

if you think about it,

I did reveal what it
means to be human.

I... I failed.

Or as they say, to err is human.

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You're welcome. [applause]

And Alyson, the weird thing is,

you chose this order

of pictures, right?
- Yes.

- You decided to
put the helicopter

in position 1.
- Right.

- Helicopter starts with an H,

just like the word human.

You did this because
you are human.

The Uakari starts with a U.

The magician in the middle,

you could have put
the magician over here.

It would have been Mu, not Hu.

You put the magician
in the middle.

You put the Alps in position 4.

And finally, New
York City, with an N...

Human.

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- Yann Yuro!
- Thank you.

All right, let's do some...

[cheers and applause]

your analysis of me was
only a little bit correct.

- You're not a dentist?

- No, although I do have
a lot of dental relatives.

- At least I figured
out that you're human.

- There you go.
- That's something.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Yes.

So this is your original trick.

- Yeah, I developed that.

I mean, I had friends
who helped me.

But we developed it
for a magic competition.

- Uh-huh.

- It was the European
Championships of Magic.

And I competed in
the mentalism category.

And I won that.

- That's amazing.

- That was a positive
surprise to me

because that was the
first real performance.

And the magicians liked it.

- Fantastic.

Without giving anything
away, can you tell me

how you developed this trick?

- Yeah, I had the
vision of the outcome.

I wanted to have the
picture spell the word.

And then, in the shower,

the idea came to
me how to do it.

And I figured out
that the idea actually

comes from a board game
that has a similar story to it.

And yeah, you can kind
of use that for magic.

- All right, Yann.

Let's find out if your
magical masterpiece

fooled Penn and Teller.

- It is a masterpiece.

It is brilliant.

The layers on this
are unbelievable.

- Thank you.

- And the subtleties
are really, really good.

The work that's done
with the little fake ending

and coming back in to
reinforce things in our minds,

it's so smart.

I mean, that mistake
is psychologically

one of the really
important things in this.

It's so simple in terms of
what the audience sees

and so complicated
in what you're doing.

It is just thrilling.

And it's really interesting

when you watch
how a magic trick...

The props, but the
trick is constructed

at the beginning, the
middle, and the end.

And the way the middle
is constructed on this

is so, so brilliant.

That took us forever to get.

And also, the
art is really good.

I mean, I really
liked the picture.

I really like the
picture of the monkey.

What was it?

- Yeah, that was a Uakari.

- Yeah, Uakari,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was a beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful picture.

And it was just gorgeous
and kind of scary

and kind of ugly
and kind of wonderful.

And we love this so much.

But we are sad
to say, and I think

I snuck maybe a few things in,

as much as we loved it
and as brilliant as it was,

I don't think you fooled us.
- Aw.

- Yeah.

- Did the two monkeys
figure out your magic?

- They totally did, yes.

- Aw, well, thank you so much.

Yann Yuro. [cheers and applause]

- Thanks, goodbye.
- Bye.

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More amazing magicians,
including our incredible

show closers, Penn and Teller.

Stay close.

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[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

I don't want to see
our next magician,

I need to see our next magician.

And here they are.

- Penn and Teller,
it's all your fault.

Since we've been on "Fool Us,"

so many wonderful
things have happened.

Australian TV just did a
documentary on Dad's life.

And last year, I
did a six-week stint

performing Dad's magic at
the Sydney Opera House.

They introduced me as the
woman who fooled Penn and Teller

four times, like this time.

Take that right
out the other end.

And this time.

There was this one.

Thunder from down under.

And boys, I know
you loved last time.

This show is like
family to us now.

Here's the thing though, boys.

In our family, we're
pretty competitive.

Dad spent a year
creating a routine

I'm going to do for you tonight.

And I have to admit,
I feel the pressure

a little more each
time I come on.

There's more to lose
and more to prove.

It's toe to toe once again.

And I know we wouldn't
have it any other way.

Welcome to the family, boys.

♪ ♪

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- Back with more
thunder from down under,

here's four-time
fooler, Helen Coghlan.

[cheers and applause]

- Hello, Penn. Hello, Teller.

I am so excited to be
back in Las Vegas with you.

For my fifth
appearance on "Fool Us,"

I've decided to
take things full circle.

First time I was here, I
fooled you with a milk trick.

Tonight, I'm going to show
you some tricks with milk again.

And you'll notice
I said "tricks."

One is with this glass.

And you can see in there.

And of course, some milk.

Now, this might
look like the trick

that fooled you first time out.

But I promise you, it
is completely different.

And in fact, I might actually
save that one for last.

Now, you know when
I come on the show,

I like to change
the rules a bit.

Tonight's no different.

I'm going to show
you two tricks.

So let's agree that if either
one of these tricks fools you,

I win.

That's fair enough.

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I'll take that as a yes.

- [laughs]

- With this trick, I'm actually
going to give you a heads-up

and let you know that
what you're about to see

isn't actually happening.

It's not going to happen.

Let me show you.

I have a pail of milk and a jug.

I'll pour the milk from
the pail into the jug.

And you can see
it going in there,

going all the way into the jug.

But like I said, that
didn't actually happen.

Now, I'm going to
reverse it for you

and pour it back from
the jug into the pail.

It looks good, doesn't it?

But like I've said, that
didn't actually happen.

Now, you might be
sitting there thinking,

well, why didn't that happen?

I tell you why,
because it's this jug.

It doesn't hold any liquid.

It can't possibly.

It doesn't have a bottom in it.

[audience exclaims]

[applause]

Thank you for that applause.

Now, did that fool you?

Because if it
did, I'll finish now

and I can save
that for next season.

Actually, don't answer,
because while I'm here,

I will show you this one.

This is even more
impossible than that.

I'll actually fill it so you
can see there is milk

all the way up to the top.

Put the back door in place
followed by the front door.

Now, if I told you I
could take a solid rod

and push it all the way
through a glass of milk,

you might think
that was impossible.

But like I've proven before,
sometimes with magic,

the impossible is
actually possible.

I'll give that a turn.

You can see the rod
all the way through.

I'll remove the front door,
followed by the back door.

And boys, all I
can say is cheers.

[cheers and applause]

- Helen Coghlan.

[cheers and applause]

Ah, Helen, hi, welcome back.

- It's nice to be back.

- It's very nice to have you.

I love how upset they get.

You've already
fooled them four times.

- I know. I'm still
baffled by that.

- It's so brave of you
to just keep coming.

- You know what?

There's more pressure on me.

After the third
and fourth, it's like,

this is getting serious now.

I'm getting nervous
when I come out now.

- Aw, why was it
easy the first time?

- I don't know. I
had nothing to prove.

It was just a bit of fun.

And when I did fool
them, then it was...

As I said, it was a
bit of a challenge.

And then, of course,
because everything I do

is Dad's creation, I
must admit after this one,

it's like, Dad, can
you give it a break.

But no, he's already
looking ahead.

- Aw, OK, Helen, let's
see if your milk trick

baffled the boys again.

- Hello, Helen.

- Hello, Penn.

- We sure love having
you on the show.

- And I love being here.

- We sure love you.

And we sure love your dad.

He's amazing.

But I do want to say,
as much as we love you,

this show is called
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."

It is not called "Helen
Coghlan: Fool Us,"

which means, if
there's rules to be made,

they're going to be made by us.

- Maybe can we change
the name of the show?

- Well, yes, once
you've done that,

once you've done that,
you can make your rules.

But you don't get to
make your own damn rules.

As a matter of
fact, when you said,

can we agree if one fools you,

we're going to
give you the trophy,

no, we did not say, OK.

You just said, I'll
take that as good.

You have brought out two tricks.

And if we can bust one of
them, you do not get a trophy.

We're not going to bring
down a half a trophy.

There's none of that jive.

We're not going to do that
because it's not your show.

It's our [bleep] show.

Is that clear now?

Is that clear?
- Yeah.

- It's ours.

- Next year, it'll
be Helen Coghlan.

- You do not get
to write the rules.

We get to write the rules.

And both tricks have to fool us.

And they did.

- [gasps, laughs]

[cheers and applause]

[indistinct]

Oh, my goodness.

- Oh, it is so nice to see you.

Oh, my God.
- Oh.

- Did he say both tricks?

Oh, both tricks.

- Wait, she should
have two trophies.

- No, you don't get to
write the rules either.

- I want to.

Five time fooler, Helen Coghlan.

[cheers and applause]

Yay.

- Thank you so much.

- Aw.

Yippee.

And just like that, we have
crowned another fooler.

Boys, go get another trophy.

You still got work to do
when "Fool Us" returns.

[cheers and applause]

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♪ ♪

- Welcome back.

One magician has
already bested our boys.

Can we make it two?

Here comes our next magician.

- Both of my grandfathers
were in the military.

It just made sense to me
to go into the military myself.

But at age 13, a
pediatric neurologist

diagnosed me with
Tourette syndrome.

I've had tics more
or less my entire life.

Sometimes they wax,
sometimes they wane,

but they are always there.

And the crazy thing,
when I'm on stage,

they're gone,
like a magic trick.

I couldn't be in the military,

but I still wanted to
contribute to the troops.

So I've done military
shows all over the world.

On one of my military
tours, I decided

that I was going to share
that I have Tourette syndrome.

All of a sudden, people were
coming up to me after shows

and they wanted to talk to me,

not just because of the magic.

They wanted to talk to
me because I got real

and they connected with that.

That was life-changing for me.

I've been embarrassed
by the tics into my 30s.

I wasn't embarrassed anymore.

I just realized it
was part of who I am.

The moment that
I'm just a person

who knows some cool
things, the wall drops,

and we're all human together.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Nashville is known
for Johnny Cash,

the Grand Ole Opry,
and now Jason Michaels.

[cheers and applause]

- Four letter words...

Words that offend,

words that get you into trouble,

fighting words, and
to people like me,

who grew up with
Tourette syndrome,

words that embarrass.

These are alphabet cards,

a bunch of cards with
letters printed on them.

Kids use these to
practice spelling.

I use them for magic.

Watch closely as I
attempt to both shuffle

and cut the cards
out of this deck

that will spell the word "fool,"

which is what I hope to do

to Penn and Teller here tonight.

Remember, the word is "fool."

♪ ♪

Ah, I got the L.

The, uh... oh, hell.

I am so sorry.

I was... I was afraid something
like this might happen.

I tell you what.

Let's put these
cards on a timeout.

[audience laughs]

I've lived most of my life
with Tourette syndrome,

which is a syndrome that
manifests itself through

both the physical
and verbal cues.

And it is quite difficult.

But over time, I was able to get

the tics under control.

But the symptoms,
they didn't vanish.

They just transferred
themselves to my cards.

And now my cards...

Well, they can't stop cussing.

Sometimes it's
magical and sometimes

it's a giant pain in the...

Yeah, exactly.

[laughter]

Thank you.

Sometimes the cards
work against me.

But sometimes,
they work with me.

Now that it appears
they're cooperating,

let me see if I can cut
the cards out of the deck

that spell the word "fool."

Ah, awesome.

All right, this next
one should be an O.

F, U... oh.

Oh, my gosh.

I, um... oh, you know what it is?

OK, I know what it is.

They are, uh... here's
what they're doing.

They're abbreviating the
phrase "fool us," obviously.

Nope, that's not
what they're doing.

[laughter]

I tell you what, let's...

Let's teach these
cards a lesson.

I will give the cards a shuffle.

And in so doing,

I will put them in
a random order.

See what I mean, a random...

Jason.

Wow, this is not so random.

"Jason is a"...

Why do I have a bad
feeling about this?

Oh, Jason is a...
Well, OK, all right,

that's not as bad
as I thought it was...

Oh, OK, Jason is a b*tch.

All right, well...

All right.

Let's go back to the beginning.

At age 13, I was
diagnosed with Tourette's.

And life was difficult.

But at age 16, I fell
in love with magic.

And when I performed
magic, the tics disappeared.

And people would applaud
me for doing something well

instead of laughing
at me over something

I couldn't control.

You might say that magic
gave me a second chance.

And that is why I
am going to give

the cards a second chance.

One shuffle, literally
as simple as it gets.

And by giving the
cards that one shuffle,

I have helped them
overcome their Tourette's.

So now...

they should be in perfect order

from the A, B, C,

all the way to the X, Y, Z.

And if I cast a
shadow over the cards

that spelled out
H-E-L-L a moment ago,

they now spell
out the word "fool."

Ah, damn.

[bleep] you.

I'm Jason Michaels.

I mean, thank you,
I'm Jason Michaels.

[cheers and applause]

- Jason Michaels.

[cheers and applause]

I'm just so excited to see
how they're gonna bleep cards.

- Well, that's a... that's a...

Yeah, that's a good...
That's a good question.

I don't know how
they're going to do that.

- You're very comfortable
being honest with your audience.

- I was massively
embarrassed by Tourette's

up until I was in my 30s.

The uncontrollable
tics and twitches, I just...

I was paralyzed by people saying

things to me that were unkind.

And what happened was
when I started talking about it,

all of a sudden, it normalized.

And I didn't... I realized
it wasn't something to be

embarrassed by, it
was something that

was just part of who I am.

- Yeah, and you probably
were educating, you know,

people who didn't know about it.

- I believe that the
awareness is quite good now.

The education is good.

But I think that we can still
do better because I still hear

from people who have really
tough stories about living

with something
like this - Right.

OK, Jason let's find
out if Penn and Teller

know how to spell
"you fooled us."

[laughter]

- Hey, Jason, you
know, Allen Ginsberg,

the great beat poet,

said, the poet stands
naked on stage.

And I think that
goes for all art.

And to take everything
that's true about us

and all the things that we
worried about and overcame,

and then turn
that into something

beautiful and artistic,

and in your case,
incredibly funny,

is really great.

The way you set up the jokes

and just knock them right
down, it's just wonderful

how it's... how it's set up.

You let us get ahead
of you a little bit,

and then surprised
us, and then turn it.

And all the comedy
was just... just wonderful.

And it's so funny.

And it feels so much
like you and so honest.

But I got to tell you,
Jason. It's a tough show.

It's a tough show, because
between us, we have...

We have over a century
of experience in magic.

And we learned a lot
more since doing this show.

So the deck is stacked
against you, Jason.

I just want you to know that.

So even though you did a
great, great job and your moves

are wonderful, and
we love the routine,

we loved about
your heart you gave,

we don't think you fooled us.

- Did they code the
solution to your trick?

- They are some of the most
clever magicians in the world.

They got it.

- Aw, well, thank you so much.

- Absolutely, thank you.

- Jason Michaels!

[cheers and applause]

If you need a break,
we've got one for you.

If you want more
magic, you'll get that too.

Don't go anywhere.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back.

Let's take a peek at
our next performer.

[suspenseful music]

- I know the exact moment
that magic found me.

Magic stuff!
- Oh.

- But I never would have
guessed where that would lead.

Parents, be very careful
what you get your children.

I'm from Brooklyn, which
has a rich magic history

that I like to explore.

My buddy and I put
on a show right here

next to this historic
carriage house.


eccentric scientist

fooled the greatest magicians
of the day, including Houdini.

And it happened right here.

I love being surrounded
by that history.

A lot of preparation
goes into magic.

I work on it everywhere.

Putting in those hours
is part of my aspiration,

not just to fool you, but
to be one of the greats.

Penn, Teller, what
I'm here to show you,

it's not a coin trick,
it's not a card trick,

I think it's something that
you've never seen before.

And if you've never seen
it, it just might fool you.

[cheers and applause]

- The next magician
messing with Penn and Teller

is Alexander Boyce.

[cheers and applause]
- Thank you very much.

There are obviously
a lot of secrets

in the world of magic.

And I think it's finally time

we revealed the big
secret here at "Fool Us."

What do you say, Alyson?
- Sure.

- Now, the truth is, you're
more than just a host,

you're actually a
magician yourself.

- Right.
- And I know you're modest.

I know you'll try to deny it.

But I think it's finally
time the world knows.

So I want to see if you
can fool Penn and Teller.

- Oh, OK.

- So did you happen
to bring with you

an antique 5-inch
miniature sword

with a hand-carved hilt?

- You know, I left
that at home today.

- Out of all the days.
- Yeah, I'm so sorry.

- Oh, you know
what? I brought mine.

- Oh, fantastic.

- Yes, take a look at
the blade, the handle,

and the pointy end.

Make sure it's exactly
what it's supposed to be.

In addition, did
you bring with you

an ornate, mahogany display
with two fine brass fixtures

and an opulent
velvet covering back?

- Oh, my gosh.

I left that back at home too.

- Don't worry. I did.

- I'm so forgetful today.

- I ask you to take
a look at this as well.

Make sure there's no slits
or holes or any trapdoors

there in the back.
- OK.

- So you've looked at the sword.

Is the bag just a bag?

- It looks like just a bag.

- Now, that will go with this.

Thank you for
examining all of this.

By any chance, Alyson, did you
happen to bring with you today

a Baroque handbell
with a birch handle?

- You know, it was
at the cleaners.

- You left it?
- Yeah.

- Guess what though?
- What?

- I brought mine.

- Oh, my gosh, I'm so grateful.

[bell rings] There you go.

- Well, you didn't
bring anything with you.

What do you have?

I see you have your ring.
- Yes.

- Does it slip off?

Or do we need the
sword to cut it off?

It does slip off.
- Yes.

- That's convenient.
- Mm-hmm.

- Would you please
pick up the bell...

- Yes.

- And ring the
bell over my hand.

Because it would be
one thing for somehow

the ring to appear
here and be gone there.

And if we stopped right now,

Penn and Teller might
say, well, it's nice,

bit of sleight of hand.

And they'd be right.

So we need to eliminate
sleight of hand entirely.

Did you happen to
bring with you today

a small, lavish, wooden
case with delicate inlay work

in the style of the
American arts and crafts

movement of the
turn of the century?

- I was really
forgetful this morning.

- Don't worry.

I did.
- Oh, thank goodness.

- This way, no sleight
of hand possible.

Your ring inside
the jewelry box,

can't do anything with it now.

So at this point,
you very thoroughly

examined the fabric.

You're very acquainted
with the item in the box.

You have the bell.
It's time to begin.

Would you pick up the
bell and ring it over the box?

[bell rings]

[rattles]

Maybe just a shorter ring.

Oh, yes, Alyson, you
can hear the ring is gone.

You can see the ring is
gone, gone, gone from the box,

gone from my hands.

You don't have it, do you?
- No.

- Oh, don't worry. There's more.

Just ring it over the bag now.

And as you might have guessed,

it does appear
underneath the fabric.

But not just that,
it appears speared

on the center of the sword.

Yes or no, Alyson,
is that your ring

trapped there on the
center of the blade?

- Yes.
- The magic of Alyson Hannigan.

- Hey, and Alexander.

[cheers and applause]

That was very impressive.

- Thank you. Well, same to you.

How did you do
that with the bell?

- It's just a secret.

Is it something you've
just always known you've

wanted to do your whole life?

- Yeah, it's the only
thing I ever have done.

I remember being 10 or 12

and sitting in that first
row of the mezzanine

there watching the show.
- Aw.

- And so it's such a treat
to be part of this now.

- And do you have any crazy
stories from your magic life?

- One time, I got a call
from Penn and Teller

to help them out a little
bit on "The Tonight Show."

They needed me to
be in a monkey suit

and rush the stage with cymbals,

and jump up and down,
and then run away.

And I was worried
that, you know,

if this is the one thing I
screw up, I slip and fall,

it would just be a disaster.

- Oh, no.

- So thankfully, it
all went really well.

And I'm still waiting
for my next call

to get into a
monkey outfit again.

- OK, Alexander, let's see if
you fooled Penn and Teller.

- OK.

- Hey, Alex, good to see you.

Boy, we're... we're big fans.

We were just...
As a matter of fact,

there was one thing that you
developed and you were selling

online that Teller and I bought
and looked at to possibly do

a closer this year.

We ended up not using it.

But next year, we may
be doing your material.

You're a wonderful creator,
a fabulous close-up magician,

have such... such
elegance and simplicity

in your performance.

And our mentor,
Johnny Thompson...

Who we love dearly...

Always said, you have
to talk away the box,

you got to talk away the box.

You've got to give some
excuse for the props.

You've got crazy
props here that don't

exist anywhere in the world.

And the way you
talk away the box

is by simply saying I
have crazy props here

that don't exist anywhere
else in the world.

And I love how honest that
is and how much it works.

He just goes, OK,
it's on a little sword.

Fine, we're OK with that
and just move on through that.

And I also love your style.

You know, there's a lot of
pressure and some people,

to use, you know,
Vegas gambling terms,

they get on-tilt,
they get rattled.

And you just go right
through, straight through,

really comfortable,
really elegant.

And I guess I should say
to Alyson, wonderful job,

because you're the one who did...

Who did all the magic.

And when we
watched this through,

we just really enjoyed
every moment of it.

And I said to
Teller, at the end,

I think that would fool
just about anybody.

And Teller said, not me.

[laughter]

And he said it with a
great deal of kindness

because you know
he loves you, Alex.

But we loved the whole routine.

We don't think you fooled us.

And I think I slipped
in a word or two.

- Yeah, I think,
Alyson, you're going

to have to keep working on your
magic and try again next time.

- Darn, all right,
I didn't fool them.

But you're very entertaining.

Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much.

- Alexander Boyce!

[cheers and applause]

I know tonight's show
has been amazing.

But I still want
one finishing touch.

How about a masterpiece
from our own Penn and Teller?

Don't go anywhere.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Just like always, it's
time to close the show

with a trick by our headliners.

So give it up for our
Las Vegas legends,

Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

- Yeah, just like always,
we end with a trick.

That's a lot of tricks to write.

And sometimes, we just get, uh...

Well, we get tapped out.

We just had... so we
got an idea, this time,

that we would just buy
someone else's trick.

We got our friend
Woody over in Spain.

He sells magic tricks.

And we just bought
one that we're

going to just do in
front of you here...

to kind of close the show.

So we got this trick from Woody.

It's a $784, which
it's expensive.

It's the most we've ever
spent on a magic trick.

But it's closing the show.

So it's... it's worth it.

I got the instructions...
Whoa, a lot of instructions.

But I'll just, um...

I'll read the instructions here.

We'll go through it.

You kind of follow
them, as always.

The instructions are in Spanish.

[laughter]

The instructions are in Spanish.

They're all in Spanish.

But you know...

Yo hablo un poco de español.

I speak a little Spanish.

So I'll just go
through the directions.

I'll translate as we go.

It'll all be fine.

¿Verdad? Sí.

"¿Verdad? Sí." is kind
of like, "yeah, that's right."

Yeah, and "sí" for you would
just be nodding your head.

That's the same over in Spain.

OK, so we're all set to go.

¿Verdad? Sí.

This is going to
be a great trick.

We'll just read through it.

We'll find out what we got here.

OK, "Hola, amigos."

Hello, friends.

Hola, amigos.

Este truco es muy bueno.

That means this
trick is very good.

But I said it many times.

Yeah, $784, it should be good.

OK.

¿Verdad? Sí.

We're ready to rock and roll.

Coge el pañuelo...

I don't... I don't know
the word "pañuelo."

But it's also right here.

So it's probably
the basis of the trick.

Let's see what
props they gave us.

Maybe there's a pañuelo.

El pañuelo, it's a hanky.

$784 for a hanky and a spoon,

which I'll just put that aside.

Pañuelo. OK. Perfecto.

¿Verdad? Sí. Sí.

Now, first direction
is... haz un nudo,

which I also don't know.

"Nudo," they're both
romance languages,

so "nudo" probably means nude.

And "haz," clearly a*s.

So it's "a*s," "nude,"
which is an idiom.

I bet it's an idiom, meaning
"a*s nude" or "butt a*s naked."

Get your a*s naked.

Everybody take your clothes off.

Not you, Teller.

Everybody watching,
take your clothes off.

Alyson, take your clothes off.

a*s nude. Haz nudo.

Everybody at home, wherever
you are, take your clothes off.

[laughter]

OK, let's get to the trick.

But so far, it's worth
the money, I think.

Enseña el pañuelo...

Well, we know that "el
pañuelo" is handkerchief.

Enseña... I'm guessing stretch.

So we go to stretch
the handkerchief.

OK, so, uh...

Oh.

Es truco bueno.
Es truco muy bueno.

Boy, that's... that's
really stretching nice.

Oh, nice job,
Woody. $784, that's...

That's worth it.

Este truco bueno.

All right, sí.

¿Verdad? Sí. Sí.

OK, now, what do we do next?

Um...

Pon el pañuelo.

OK, take... take
the handkerchief.

En mano.

"En mano" is monkey.

"Mano" is monkey.

So we're supposed
to have a monkey.

So... ¿verdad? Sí.
We get a monkey.

Sí, ¿verdad? Sí. Mano.

[audience exclaims]

OK, monkey is right there.

¿Verdad? Sí.

Fiesta, fiesta!

Este... este truco bueno.

Bueno is fiesta.

OK, next thing... boy, this is...

Is harder than IKEA here.

But let's see what we do next.

I want... look at
the diagram, Teller.

It says, um...

Sopla, sopla el
mano. Sopla el ma...

Well, "sopla" is soup.

I think it's soup.

So he got the soup there.

"Sopla el mano" means
give soup to the monkey.

It's working perfectly.

Give soup to the monkey.

No, no, monkey, monkey.

Have a spoon.

I guess that's what
the spoon's for.

Sopla mano, good, good, good.

Yep, good.

You happy with that?
- Gracias.

- De nada. De nada.

OK, let's see what's next.

Oh, jeez.

Look at this.

The directions are
right here in English.

They had... oh,
boy, I got a lot...

I got a lot wrong.

Nudo, that's... that's not nude.

Put your clothes on, Alyson.

That's... it means "knot."

It doesn't mean "nude."

So "haz nudo" means make a knot.

So put your clothes on.

Fiesta is over. No fiesta.

No fiesta.

OK, good.

And "mano"... [chuckles]

"Mano" is...

It's hand.

It's not monkey.

"Mono" is monkey.

"Mano" is hand.

So we don't need the monkey.

No te... no te
necesitamos, el mono.

Good, so yeah.

Let me see.

So it's very different there.

"Enseña" is not stretch.

It's "show."

So you show el pañuelo.

You show the handkerchief.

And then "nudo, haz
nudo" means make a knot.

So you make a knot.

Este truco bueno.

And then "sopla" is not soup.

It's blow.

So you... you blow...

"Sopla mano," you
blow on the hand.

And then nudo... vanishes.

That's we've ever
paid for a trick, $784,

worth every penny.

Este truco bueno, bueno, bueno.

- Whoo.

- Fiesta!

[cheers and applause]

- Necesitamos vamos.
- Sí.

- We got to go.

There's a gorilla on the loose.

Good night from Las Vegas.

- Adiós. Adiós, mis amigos.

Adiós.

[cheers and applause]