Penn & Teller: Difference between revisions

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.