Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
skills magic use
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
skills television littles
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
jobs skills careers
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
five jazz obsessed talking
The whole thing comes from Provenza and I talking about be-bop jazz about five years ago when I got obsessed with it, and still am,
good magic needs realized time
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.
costello elvis five forward saw seeing
Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas,
allowed hours information manipulate minute
Provenza transcribed every minute of those hours on a computer. That allowed him to manipulate the information in his head, very much like Mozart, I would think,
idiot loving proved
proved that I wasn't an idiot for loving the American people.
good
The thing was, I have a very good job; he has a very good job,
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very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.
cruel kid likely name others
I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.
people
We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
great obama people
Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
blood hard holidays time
We know that the holidays are a hard time for UBS and blood (supplies) are low, so we thought it was the least we could,