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Line 4: '''Penn & Teller''' are an American double-act, comedians and stage magicians, with a regular gig at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Penn Jillette is the tall, talkative one with long dark hair. [[Only One Name\|Teller]] is the short one who [[The Voiceless\|never speaks on stage]] and makes [[Silent Snarker\|amusing facial expressions]] on the frequent occasions when Penn exposes him to danger. They were introduced to one another by a mutual friend in 1975. Ever since then, they've done most of their work together, developing their own rather quirky style of magic. The pair have a wide fraud-busting streak, which gets its widest exposure in their Showtime TV show, ''[[Penn ~~and~~& Teller: Bullshit!]]''. A running theme in their work is truth, lies and deception, with many parts of their stage magic routine built around [[Lampshading]] the fact that magic is all about deceiving the audience. Many of their tricks also play on the audience's visceral reaction to tricks that ''appear'' dangerous but are in fact completely safe, celebrating the fantasy that two guys can [[Bullet Catch\|shoot guns into each other's mouths]] and emerge from it completely unharmed. {{examples\|Aside from their various stage shows, Penn & Teller's body of work includes:}} Line 73: * [[Three-Way Sex]]: A trick in ''How to Play in Traffic'' revolves around playing a [[Knights and Knaves]]-esque game supposedly to choose which of two potential sex partners you have a better "connection" with. It ends with you supposedly reading both of their minds (courtesy of the trick, of course), concluding that you can't possibly choose, and [[Take a Third Option\|inviting both of them to your hotel room together]]. (This is followed by a parenthetical note that you ''could'' in theory just pick the one you like better instead, but ''who in the world would do that''?) * [[Unwinnable by Design]]: In ''Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors'', hyperbole is not in any way involved in the naming of the "Impossible" difficulty level. * [[The Voiceless]]: Teller's on-stage persona, although he has spoken in non-"Penn & Teller" contexts, such as the film version of ''[[The Fantasticks]]'' and has even been a voice actor. {{reflist}} Line 80: [[Category:Comedian]] [[Category:Stage Magician]] [[Category:Voice Actors]] [[Category:Names to Know in Comedy]]