[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller
Theater
in Las Vegas, Nevada,
here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Penn & Teller:
Fool Us."
Tonight, you're gonna see
magicians do some tricks
that will probably fool you,
and they'll certainly fool me.
But that doesn't matter.
They're trying to fool
two of the greatest magicians
of all time: Penn and Teller.
If they succeed, they'll win
the priceless prize
of performing with our boys
as part of their Las Vegas show.
We can't wait to do the show,
so--we can't do it without them,
so let's hear it
for Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
Hi.
♪ ♪
- Everybody okay?
- All right.
Take your seats.
You got good ones tonight.
[cheers and applause]
All right.
Fasten your seat belts.
Let's meet our first performer.
- Hi, I'm Matthew Laslo,
and I'm a 15-year-old magician.
I started magic
when I was seven years old.
I run the projector
at this beautiful theater
on Orcas Island, where I live,
so I get to use the venue
for my performances,
which is just incredible.
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
There are some differences
between my generation
of magician
and the older generation.
Youth is a big part of my show.
I enter on a hoverboard.
I use stuff like selfie sticks
and instantly,
when you see that,
there's such an amazing energy
from the audience
that I just feed off of.
♪ ♪
I try and create
a modern world,
a current, fresh approach
to magic.
♪ ♪
This is what magic
looks like right now.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome 15-year-old
magician Matthew Laslo.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- Hi, everyone.
My name is Matthew Laslo.
Penn and Teller,
thank you so much
for having me on your show.
Right now, it's time for fun...
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
With a T-shirt g*n.
Whoa!
Little itchy trigger finger.
Sorry about that.
Hope I didn't hit anybody.
Oh, ladies and gentlemen,
my assistant, Maria.
[cheers and applause]
Maria, time to reload.
- Reload.
- T-shirt.
- T-shirt.
- Ramrod.
- Ramrod.
- Who wants a T-shirt?
Come on.
Who wants it?
Let's see.
There we go.
These things are so much fun,
and the cool thing is
they can sh**t other stuff
like candy, confetti,
even playing cards.
Let's try something fun
with this deck of cards
and the T-shirt g*n.
♪ ♪
But first a word of caution.
Like all g*ns,
these can be very dangerous.
So please do not try what
I'm about to attempt at home.
Go to your friend's house.
[laughter]
Just kidding.
I'm going to need
the help of a few people
from the audience,
starting off over here.
How about you?
Go ahead and touch any card,
any card at all.
Right there?
Look at that card.
Remember it and hold onto it.
Over here, touch any card,
any card at all.
Right there?
Look at that card,
remember it,
and hold onto it.
Now, over here.
Touch any card,
any card at all.
Any one.
Right there?
Now--oops.
You know what?
We'll do something special
for your card.
I'm going to tear the corner
off of your card,
and you get
to keep that piece
as a souvenir.
Three random people
and three freely-chosen cards.
Remember those cards.
Hopefully we'll see them again.
Now, over the years,
a few brave magicians
have attempted a feat
called the b*llet Catch:
catching a b*llet fired
from a g*n in their teeth.
Penn and Teller
made the trick famous
while other magicians
have ended up in the hospital
or worse.
Tonight, I'm going to try my own
slightly-less-dangerous version
of the b*llet Catch
with the T-shirt g*n.
♪ ♪
To start, I am loading
this rag into the g*n
to keep the blast
from blowing the cards to bits.
Next, the deck of cards
with the three chosen cards.
In a few moments, Maria will aim
the g*n at my face
and pull the trigger.
If things go well, I will catch
the three chosen cards
in my mouth.
If things go horribly wrong,
I could end up
with some pretty nasty
paper cuts.
[laughter]
Oh, yeah.
Now, to further continue,
Maria is going to stuff
a poly-cotton blend
Magic Now T-shirt
into the g*n as well.
♪ ♪
Once again,
please do not try this at home.
When the g*n goes off, the cards
will be flying at my face
at almost 200 miles an hour.
So my mom told me
to wear these safety glasses.
♪ ♪
So this is for you, Mom.
[laughter]
Maria, take your position.
Let's do this
on the count of three.
One,
two...
whoa!
Three.
What happened to on three?
You missed my count.
What?
Wait a second.
I caught three cards
on the T-shirt.
I even caught the T-shirt.
[applause]
But are they the right cards?
Starting off here,
what card did you pick?
- Three of hearts.
- The three of hearts.
The three of hearts.
[applause]
And the gentleman right beside
you--what card did you pick?
- Ten of clubs.
- The ten of clubs.
[applause]
Oh, and the lady
with the torn piece--
can you
bring that up here?
Let's make some noise as
she makes her way to the stage.
[cheers and applause]
Hi.
- Hi.
- What's your name?
- Tina.
- Tina, now, is that your card,
the five of spades?
- Yes.
- Go ahead and remove your card
from my shirt first.
Let's--
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- [laughs]
- What's wrong?
- I can't.
- What?
Your card is embedded
into the fibers of my T-shirt.
- Wow.
- But there's a corner missing.
If that piece fits,
that would be amazing.
- It--
- Let's see.
A perfect match.
[cheers and applause]
I'll take the card.
You get the torn piece,
along with all of this applause.
You can go back
to your seat.
A huge round of applause.
- That was Matthew Laslo!
That was awesome.
- Thank you.
- Wow.
Do you practice, like,
every single day?
- Yeah, I practice a lot.
Like, it's a constant thing.
You always carry around
a deck of cards
and are messing around
with everything
that you can, you know?
- Oh.
So what's the sort
of worst thing
that's happened to you
during a show?
- Worst thing that happened--
well, I was doing a trick
where my clothing
was the prediction
for the end of the trick,
and I was wearing shorts
underneath my pants,
and I had to take
my pants off for this,
and I was performing for
about 200 people in a church.
So I took my pants off.
The shorts came with it,
and I was stepping forward
for the big applause cue,
and it was--for an 11-year-old,
it was quite embarrassing.
- Oh, dear.
- Yeah.
- Oh, no.
And what's your ultimate goal?
- To have my own show
somewhere in the world.
Like a nightly show, like, maybe
in--maybe even Las Vegas, here.
- Yeah.
- So this is a dream
come true to be here.
- So are you nervous?
'Cause you don't seem nervous
at all, but this, I think,
is your first time
on television, correct?
- I'm--yes, this is
the first time on television.
I was extremely nervous
going into it.
Like, my legs were shaking
at the beginning.
But this is--you know,
once you're out here
for a little bit,
you--you know,
you guys were
such an awesome audience,
so it's just been--been great.
- Aww.
[cheers and applause]
Well, you didn't seem nervous
at all.
- Thank you.
- Yeah. All right.
Well, let's go
to the boys, shall we?
- All right.
Yes.
- Boys?
- Well, we're doing a lot
of thinking on this.
We do not think,
in the history of our show,
there has been
a better entrance.
No, there's not been
a better entrance.
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Age-appropriate entrance,
age-appropriate props.
Very good idea.
It's really wonderful
how you've taken stuff
from a lot of different sources
and put it together.
You've culled things from
all sorts of ways
people have done magic.
The color-changing T-shirt
is something we've seen before.
The torn corner is something
we've seen before,
but never seen a torn corner
on a T-shirt.
It makes it
an entirely new trick,
even though we know
both parts of it.
We just loved
how you went through
and pulled things
here and there
and put it together
in a--in a whole new--
we've seen every piece of this.
We never saw it all together,
and that makes you
a great performer, I think.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
- So are you convinced
that they know how you--
- They--yes.
Absolutely, they--
- Did everything
even though--okay.
- They're--thank you once again.
- You were great, man.
This was great, Matthew, great.
- This has been, like, the best
week of my life.
- Aww.
- [laughs]
- Well, thank you,
Matthew Laslo.
You were so wonderful.
- Thank you, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
- We have more
potential foolers,
plus a trick by Penn and Teller
later in the show.
Stay close.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
- Welcome back.
While you were
watching commercials,
we went out and found
this next potential fooler.
- I am Zabrecky.
[dramatic electronic music]
I guess it is true
that I've always been
a little bit...
different.
I don't know
what people say about me,
and I really don't care.
[quirky music]
I wouldn't really want anyone
to expect anything
from one of my performances,
because the artist's job is to
always deepen the mystery.
I don't know if I can convince
Penn and Teller of anything,
but I'm gonna try.
I'll show them
what I'm good at.
I want them to like me.
Penn and Teller,
do you like me?
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- And now, with four
randomly-selected members
of our audience, here's
the very-specific Zabrecky.
[cheers and applause]
- Humans, by being here now,
you'll be part of an event
that you will never forget.
Go ahead and take the caps
off of these pens.
Put them to the cardboard
and draw me a picture.
You can draw anything
that you like.
Start drawing right...
[snaps]
Now.
It could be something simple,
like a circle, a square,
maybe a geometric shape,
maybe something more complex--
a burning Christmas tree.
[laughter]
Oh, please finish up the work.
Now, very carefully,
put the caps on the pens
and hand all of the drawings
down to your right,
to the female standing
closest to the table
on the far right over there.
Please tell me when you have
those four drawings
in your hand.
You have the four drawings?
- Yes.
- Good.
Now, make sure
they're all facing down,
so they're facing the stage,
and once they are,
shuffle them up
so you don't know
where your drawing is
with anyone else's.
Just make sure
they're all mixed up
and they're all facing down.
That done?
- Mm-hmm.
- Place them face-down
onto the table.
I will collect the pens.
[pens clattering]
Ladies and gentlemen,
among my skill sets,
I happen to be
an expert in art analysis,
and I have a trained eye--
this one, right here--
to read in between
the lines of fine artwork,
in particular
of pen-and-ink drawings.
So if I analyze
this work properly,
I should be able
to determine not one,
but two things.
I should be able to tell
all of you people, number one,
which artist
created which picture,
and number two,
I should be able to reveal
some personal information
about each of my artists.
[laughter]
And I'm going
to judge you all.
[laughter]
Especially you.
[laughter]
Let's see what we have.
Four artists, four drawings.
Well, I said draw anything.
This is certainly anything.
Look at this.
A beautiful rendition.
A woman with a hat
and long hair
just kind of floating
in space there.
Can we see that?
I mean, the work is compulsive.
It's concentrated,
yet it tells me everything that
I need to know about my artist.
So right here, a little heart,
right there on the hat.
It tells me that the person
that composed this picture
likes piña coladas
and getting caught in the rain.
[laughter]
Your work, yes?
- Yeah.
- Be gone.
Go.
This way.
Right over here.
[applause]
One down.
Let's see what we have next.
Oh, of course.
Clearly, the work
of a sex maniac.
[laughter]
A faceless stick figure.
Pure subversion.
Mm.
Look at this.
[laughter]
Your work.
Be gone.
Go.
Also, go.
Good.
Two artists, two pictures.
Aren't you glad you volunteered?
[laughter]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my.
Oh, dear.
Move.
Oh, my God.
This is your work, isn't it?
- Yes.
- Just go.
Just go.
Go, go.
[applause]
[whispering]
He is so weird.
[laughter]
We have one artist.
We have one picture.
You may take your seat back.
We're gonna do something
a little bit different with you.
Go on.
Take your seat back.
Yes.
You can go back.
You can applaud for her
as she does.
[applause]
Female, I would like you
to clear your mind
of all of your thoughts
and concentrate on the picture
you drew a moment ago.
Do you recall
what you did compose?
Yes?
Good.
Let your mind be free.
Concentrate on the picture
and send it to me,
and I will draw the first thing
that comes into my mind,
you see.
You understand?
So take the picture
from your brain
and send it to me right here.
[laughter]
[sniffing]
[laughter]
There we go.
[laughter]
I'm not saying
this is what you composed.
It's just the first thing
that came into my mind.
[laughter]
Once again,
let your mind be free.
Concentrate on the picture.
Send it to me now.
Oh, yes.
Something's happening.
That's it.
That's it.
I've composed something here,
as I have here.
I can't change my mind.
In a loud and clear voice,
would you mind
telling everyone here tonight
what you composed
just a moment ago
on your slip of cardboard?
Yes?
- A fish.
- A fish.
May we take a look?
Can we take a look?
Some would call this a fish.
Some would.
[laughter]
It's very nicely drawn.
It's just like the one
you sent me right here.
[cheers and applause]
- Wow.
Hi, hello.
- Who are you?
- Hi. Alyson.
- Alyson.
Hi.
What a coincidence.
My sister's name is Laura.
- Okay.
Nice to--
nice to meet you.
Do you know those markers
might be a little toxic?
And just--I'm a little worried
about your health.
Here--just--yes.
No, that's--okay.
Well, it's just--
you have lovely cheekbones.
- Well, thank you.
- Yes. All right.
Okay, okay.
So maybe the guy--okay.
[laughs nervously]
How did you draw the fish?
- Well, the fish
came to me, you see.
- Right.
- Because she composed it
and it was sent to me, you see.
Just sort of flowed
through the theater here.
- Right, but, I mean,
I wouldn't have--
even if I was looking at it,
I wouldn't have been
able to say,
"Oh, that's a fish,"
and copy it.
Like, you're really good.
- That's why I'm here,
and you're over there.
You see?
Yes, of course.
- That's so true.
So good.
- Yes.
- Can you tell
what they're thinking?
- I'm not sure
which one is which.
[laughter]
- Really?
Okay.
Let's see if the boys
have it figured out.
- God, you know,
I got to tell you
how many magicians
trying to be funny
have held pens in their hands,
and no one was smart enough
to write on their face.
[laughter]
This is just the greatest thing.
And we were trying to think
if there's ever been a mentalist
doing a mentalist act
that was sincerely funny
and sincerely good.
You may be the first ever.
- Wow.
- You may be
the first ever to do that.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
[applause]
- As Teller said,
"It was Salvador Dali
doing pseudo psychometry," so...
[laughs]
And you do have a trained eye,
and you were looking
very carefully at those cards.
That worked very well.
I want to say this
a little bit carefully,
because I don't want
to give it away.
But I have been following you
before your magic career.
- Oh, thank you.
- And--singer, right?
You were a lead singer and put
out a few singles, didn't you?
- Mm-hmm.
- And what did they peak
at in Billboard?
- In the 50s, let's just say.
- In the 50s.
So you peaked--you peaked
around the 50s.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and that's--
- But I was in my 20s
when I peaked, really.
This is all just sort
of the afterlife, you know?
- Well, I think it was a great,
great, great act,
and you did not fool us,
and I think we told you how.
- Okay, well, thank you.
- All right.
So are you satisfied
that they know
how you did your magic?
- I'm satisfied, yes.
- All right.
- [laughs]
- All right.
Well, thanks, Zabrecky.
I'll clean you up later.
[cheers and applause]
Well, believe it or not,
we have more amazing acts
coming up after this.
We'll be right back.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back
to "Penn & Teller: Fool Us,"
where magicians try to match
wits with the masters.
Let's meet our next
potential fooler.
- My name is David Garrard.
I work part-time
as minister to children
at St. Matthews
Baptist Church,
and I do magic.
[light instrumental music]
I've played a lot of schools.
I've played a lot of gymnasiums
and school cafeterias
and shopping malls.
I'm sort of a GP,
a general practitioner,
of magic.
Claire, my daughter,
first helped me
when she was 18 months old.
She is a marvelous assistant,
and I couldn't do
what I do without family.
I'm very excited
to have the opportunity
to be on "Fool Us,"
and we've been working hard,
but I also feel like we've been
preparing for a moment like this
on a Las Vegas stage
for 40 years.
Wow, is this a dream,
or is this really happening?
[cheers and applause]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
David Garrard.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Tonight, we want to show you
how a trick is done
and try to fool you
at the same time.
Specifically,
we want to show you
how to produce a beautiful
young lady from two empty boxes.
Now, in order to do that,
Claire and I are gonna have
to turn things around
so you can see
behind the scenes.
[laughter]
Say hello to Meredith.
[crowd murmuring]
The trick begins with Meredith
hiding behind the big, blue box,
hidden from our audience,
but clearly visible to you,
as you now watch from backstage.
Magic is full of surprises.
[hard rock music]
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♪ ♪
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[applause]
♪ ♪
- That's Penn's daughter, Moxie.
David Garrard, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
- How'd you do it?
- No.
- Not gonna tell me?
- No.
- [laughs]
- Aww.
You obviously got the most
beautiful assistant ever,
so congratulations to that.
- She was wonderful.
- Aww.
[applause]
- And the fun thing about it
for me is the tall young lady
was my daughter.
- I was gonna say--
- Yes.
- Wonderful.
- So very special tonight
to have some
dad-and-daughter magic.
There's something magical,
I think,
about the dad-daughter
relationship.
- Absolutely.
It's so sweet.
And I mean, obviously,
brilliant choice using Moxie.
How did that come to be?
- You try to surround yourself
with the best people.
That's what I try to do, and...
- Very smart.
- Moxie was just magnificent.
- She's a natural.
Well, and I recognize
your accent,
and I'm a little concerned
that I'm gonna start
talking like you,
'cause you must be
from Georgia.
- You take the Southern boy
out of the country,
but you can't take the country
out of the Southern boy.
- Yeah.
Okay, well, it's time
to go to the boys.
- We've been trying
to get out of Moxie
how you did it,
and she will not crack.
She will not crack.
We're not gonna
try waterboarding,
but she will not crack.
- That's good.
That's good.
- That is a classic trick
done perfectly.
Dante developed it--
backstage with the magician.
- Thank you.
Yes.
- And a real inspiration
for a lot of our career.
We always try to show
that different angle and so on.
Love that trick,
and the hardest part
of that trick--
the hardest thing
to make good about that trick
is to give
a real surprise ending,
and I think,
with the help of my daughter,
you got--Teller said that he--
[laughs]
When she first popped out,
he went,
"Wow, she's about the same age
as Moxie."
[laughter]
So you did a wonderful job...
- Thank you.
- With a classic illusion.
- Thank you.
- Beautiful, beautiful job.
I think Moxie, however,
was the star.
Don't you think?
- Yes, I agree.
[applause]
- All right.
You didn't fool them.
- Thank you.
Oh, that's all right.
- But you definitely warmed
all of our hearts,
and thank you so much,
David Garrard.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Aww.
Amazing stuff.
I sure could use a break,
which is great,
because we have
to take one anyway.
More "Fool Us"
when we come back.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us."
It's time for our next
potential fooler.
- ♪ All right, I'm about
to rap out the hot one, son ♪
♪ So give me the microphone
and let me have some fun ♪
♪ Penn and Teller
on the throne ♪
♪ Saying, "Yo, just school
us up at the Rio ♪
♪ Wayne Hoffman,
try to fool us" ♪
I've been known to freestyle,
but don't tell anyone.
[laughs]
I started doing magic as a--
as a child,
and then after I started
studying human behavior,
psychology, I realized
I could get away from props
and entertain people
just with their minds.
There's a very fine line
with mentalists.
I once did a show,
and halfway through the show,
I saw a girl reading verses
of the Bible
because she thought that I was
in the league with the devil.
[laughs]
I don't claim to have
supernatural powers,
but people believe it.
[cheers and applause]
- Our next performer was once
Snoop Dogg's neighbor,
so welcome the real dizzle
for shizzle, Wayne Hoffman.
- Welcome!
Quick question
before we begin.
Do you believe it's possible
to predict the future?
A lot of people say no,
but those same people
are gonna go
and check the weather forecast
for this weekend.
It's nothing more
than a prediction of the future
that you're relying on.
Well, as a kid,
there was a group of us
at school that believed
it was possible.
So I decided to start a club.
I started a club called
the Mind Candy Club,
for those of us
that believed.
And here tonight, right in
the Rio at--in Las Vegas,
we are going to induct
a new member into my club,
and it's gonna be one of you.
So if you have a--
and just, you know what?
Let's get one of the locals.
Those people are crazy in Vegas.
If you're a local and you have
your driver's license with you,
we want a guy
with a driver's license.
So if that's you,
and you want to volunteer,
just raise your hand,
and in fact, I'm gonna let
Mr. Penn Jillette select
who amongst the audience
we're gonna induct tonight.
- Yeah.
I don't know.
You, with the glasses
and the blue shirt right there.
How about you?
Let's induct you.
- Welcome.
Come on up here.
[applause]
Welcome to the party.
- Thank you.
- Come on over here.
Now, did you have any clue that
you would be up here tonight?
- No idea.
- I could tell by the look on
your face when Penn picked you.
Now, here's the thing.
In this envelope, I have
a little welcome letter for you,
since you're the new member
of the club.
Do you have your
driver's license on you?
- Yes.
- Cool. Pull it out.
We need it.
I'm sure you've done this before
at a traffic stop.
We all have.
Don't worry.
No registration needed.
Cool.
Yeah.
That's you.
I knew this was going to happen,
and I have proof.
Inside of this envelope here
is your welcome letter.
I printed this on my computer,
knowing that this was
going to occur.
Hang onto that.
I want you to unfold it.
Open it up.
- Yeah.
- Pull it open all the way.
Yeah, and there's
something printed here.
Isn't that weird?
I can tell by the look
on your face already.
Turn it this way and read it out
loud for everybody.
Go ahead.
From the top.
- "Dear Carlos"--
- That's you.
- "Congratulations on being
selected as a new member
"of Wayne Hoffman's
Mind Candy Club.
"We strive to make sure
our members
"are intelligent, well-mannered,
and good-looking.
"Please, present your ID
for verification.
Welcome to the world
of mystery."
- Yeah, you see, I had a dream
that all of this
was going to occur.
This is yours to keep.
I want you to take that
with you.
- Thank you.
- It was the strangest thing.
It was--it was extremely weird,
the dream.
You came in.
You had g*ns blazing.
You were sh**ting everybody
underneath the sun.
I don't know why,
but you took seven shots.
Teller walked in.
He couldn't stop talking.
It was extremely weird.
I'm gonna keep this license,
and I'll get it back to you
in a little bit.
Give Carlos a round of applause
as he makes his way down.
[applause]
Teller, take your hands
like this, if you would.
Slowly bring them together.
Cool.
Perfect, and stop,
'cause this is a perfect time
to start praying.
[laughter]
Right now, we're gonna play
a game called,
"Is This Mentalist a Homicidal,
Suicidal Maniac?"
Right now, Penn and Teller
have to decide
whether or not
they are about to die.
Clearly, by the fact
that they're still sitting here,
they're choosing to believe
that I am not going to k*ll him,
a prediction which
they are making right now.
It's kind of life or death.
Well, I'll tell you what.
Teller, if you don't mind,
just hang onto that.
- [laughs]
[laughter]
- Now, would I really
k*ll these people?
No, but the funny part is
if that would've gone off,
that would've been
the definitive way
to say that I could fool them.
[laughter]
[applause]
But this is all building up
to the cl*max,
and for it, I need to ask
Penn and Teller
to join me onstage.
I want all of us
to cl*max together.
Let's welcome them.
[cheers and applause]
Grab a seat.
Thanks for coming up.
You can keep that as a souvenir.
Now, here's the thing.
Most--
[laughter]
Most people keep
their driver's license
in their wallet.
I don't.
See, tonight, I have something
completely different.
I have something weird.
My membership, my club,
is an organization
that gives out
plastic membership cards.
We actually keep these
with our name
and our birth dates as proof
that we're members of the club.
Inside of my wallet here,
pinned up,
is a membership card
stamped with a name
and a date.
Now, we always
keep the birthdays here.
In fact, it's embossed--
stamped into the card,
like you would have
a credit card at home.
Penn, feel it.
Make sure that's actually
embossed and stamped
into the card.
- Yeah, well, it is.
- It is.
Now, over here, read the name
that's at the top.
- Carlos is the name.
- Carlos.
Now, we still have
Carlos's license.
Verify.
Is his name Carlos, Teller?
Yes?
It's actually there,
and underneath is a date
stamped into the card.
- Yes.
- What is the month?
Just the month.
- January.
- January.
Was he--he was born
in January, wasn't he?
Now, what date of the month
does it say on the card?
- 14.
- Was he born January 14th?
Carlos, welcome to the club.
[applause]
Penn and Teller,
ladies and gentlemen.
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo.
All right.
- Thank you.
- That's incredible,
and thank you
for not blowing them up.
I appreciate it.
- Yeah.
The expl*si*n was mental,
not physical,
'cause that's highly ill*gal,
I found out.
- Yes.
And being a mentalist,
do you prefer that over magic?
- A lot of guys will say,
"I'm a magician.
I'm a sleight-of-hand artist.
I'm an escape artist,"
or, "I'm a mentalist,"
or whatever.
- Right.
- And choose one.
I took the path--I wanted both.
I do mentalism,
which is psychologically-based
stuff, mainly,
and I also do sleight-of-hand
and illusion,
'cause it's fun and I love it.
- Right.
And you're also
a body language expert?
- You know, I would never even
say I'm an expert at anything,
but little tricks,
like, for example,
you're sitting in what's called
the fig leaf position.
- Oh.
- It's like you're wearing
nothing but a fig leaf
right now.
This is a position people
go into when they're nervous,
like standing next
to a mind reader, maybe.
- Mm-hmm.
- They go, "Protection mode!"
- Okay. All right.
I'll stop.
- Now you're--you're just
protecting the back now.
That's--
[laughter]
[laughs]
- Okay.
All right.
Penn, Teller--
- We have this one nailed,
no problem.
This is not real dynamite.
[laughter]
It's just--
- [laughs]
Damn it.
[applause]
- Thanks a lot for being here.
- Thank you.
- Oh, wow!
[laughs]
- Wayne.
- Yes.
- You did something
really amazing.
You did mentalism
without being a sleazeball.
- All right.
- You did mentalism
as a really good trick.
- Thank you.
- And it's a really
modern version
of Card To Wallet,
which is a--which is a classic
and a wonderful effect,
but done where
it means something--
done with a membership card
instead of a playing card.
It's also--
it's such a new version
that you could not have done
this trick 30 years ago.
[laughs]
- True.
- Yes.
And I hope that gives you
a little bit
of a--a little bit of a hint.
- Uh...
I'm--I'm a little slow.
So maybe we can creep
around it.
- Okay, okay.
Well, what we really liked was
we really liked the whole set
and all the stuff
you had set up here,
and Teller, you know,
is redecorating his living room
and was wondering if
he could borrow the tablecloth.
Can we take that with us
right now?
Could we borrow
the tablecloth right now?
- Yes, absolutely, you can.
- We could?
We could take
the tablecloth right now?
- Yes.
- We'd love to see it there.
- Oh, okay.
All right.
- If we could take this...
- Something under the table,
perhaps?
- Tablecloth with us.
- And there's a table.
All right.
Okay.
Oh, wait.
I see a finger.
- We would like to borrow
this tablecloth for a party
that we're gonna have
for you having fooled us.
Yeah, but that's the whole--
you want to do it.
I mean, because we thought--
we thought...
- Oh, my God.
You fooled them!
- There was a printer
under this table,
and there's not.
- That is so cool.
- Oh, man!
- There's nothing there
whatsoever.
- Ladies and gentlemen,
Wayne Hoffman
just fooled Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- All right, you guys.
Thank you so much.
- All right.
[cheers and applause]
I can't believe you two
fell for that.
Everyone knows how
that one's done.
Well, I'll explain it
to these guys
while we take a quick break.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
the best double act
in the history of magic,
the great, great
Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- This--you're about to see
the first bit
we've ever written
where Teller talks.
Teller, for the first time ever,
will do the entire
monologue himself.
Teller's salute to recycling.
[cheers and applause]
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[laughter]
- Aww.
Okay.
Okay, well, that was our show
for tonight.
[cheers and applause]
Or was it all an illusion?
Thanks for watching.
More "Fool Us" next week.
[cheers and applause]
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A magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller.
A magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller.