Penn & Teller: Fool Us - First Season

And here's TV's very own Mr. Magic, Jonathan Ross!

I'm fine, thank you very much.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to

what I promise, will be, for both the audience here

and everyone watching at home, a truly magical night.

You know, I've always loved magic.

When I was a little kid, I used to be enchanted by my granddad.

He'd ask me for a coin like a 10p or something

and he would just make it vanish into thin air.

He was a wonderful magician. Also, unfortunately, a thief.

Because... I never got it back.

We had assembled the cream of the conjuring community of this country.

I'm amazed I got through that sentence without getting into trouble.

We're going to show you more magic than a Hogwarts assembly.

And think of me, if you will, as an immaculately suited,

ravishingly handsome Dumbledore.

Boredom! Okay

All are masters of their art, and they're here to try and fool the men who've been

headlining Las Vegas for the last ten years.

Penn and Teller.

In fact, the only thing bigger than them in Vegas, is the city's electricity bill.

Now, I'm a huge fan of them, I hope you are as well.

Before they come up on stage, look at this.

Hey! Welcome to Vegas!

WELCOME TO FABULOUS LAS VEGA NEVADA

My name is Penn Jillette, this is my partner, Teller.

We're Penn and Teller. And we have been working together

doing magic for our entire adult lives.

RIO

We've been settled down here at the Rio in Las Vegas for about ten years.

Drop!

We're over in Britain, hoping that somebody or many people

will be able to fool us.

Who will be able to do tricks that we don't know how they're done.

PENN AND TELLER

We have to figure out how they did the trick, seeing it once.

And seeing it once, from just the angle we have in the audience,

We're not watching monitors, we don't have sneaky camera shots,

we don't have any information in advance.

It's just us sitting there, you come on, and you fool us.

And if you can't, go home! If you can, come to Vegas.

If someone fools us, they will get all their expenses paid, everything.

Fly over to Las Vegas, with us.

We'll put 'em up and we'll give 'em our stage to be able to do their tricks.

Everybody who comes on the show tonight, is going to be very brave.

It's really tough to do a trick for someone

who might actually tell you what they think afterwards.

This show is just about giving back that first feeling

that we got when we were five years old and first saw someone

vanish something in their hand like that.

That's a beautiful, wonderful feeling and we want it again.

So, fool us!

They've been performing together for 35 years!

It's incredible, longer than most marriages.

But like all successful marriages, the reason it works I think,

is that one doesn't allow the other one to speak.

Here they are, it's the two, the only, Penn and Teller!

Gentlemen. Mr. Teller! Mr. Penn!

- How you doin'? - Glad to see you both here.

Thank you.

Everyone here is excited, I know I'm excited.

I know you're excited as well,

because generally you would like to be fooled, wouldn't you?

Yes, it's not competition, you know.

We just wanna, the reason you get into magic

is there's no better feeling than being fooled.

The longer you work in magic, the harder it is to be fooled.

- So you're gonna watch it just the once? - Just once, yeah.

No camera trickery, no editing, nothing like that.

What you see at home, is exactly what Penn and Teller see,

what everyone here in the audience sees, and you're gonna try and work out

if you know how they do it--

Yeah, and we'll do our best to try to figure it out.

You're not gonna tell us exactly how it is done though,

I guess you use the language of the trade,

you'll give us enough information to make sure

we know, they know, you know, they know,

and we will then know you know what they have done, without us knowing.

- We'll do whatever the hell we want. - Yeah.

Before we get on with the show,

some people may not have had the experience

of seeing Penn and Teller perform like before.

So now to show you, they're very much at the very top of the tree,

Penn and Teller, ladies and gentlemen.

Before we ask you to get going, could we ask you one small favor?

Please take out your cellphones, your mobile phones and turn them on.

And turn the ringers up full. We want you all loud and connected.

Hold it up just like this.

Because we are gonna pick one person from the audience

to bring their cellphone on stage and video

this first trick from an angle that will show that person how it is done.

So if you have a mobile phone,

and you know how to use it, just hold it up just like this.

We're gonna find somebody who has that. We want to give you a promise

we all have personal information on our cell phones.

We wanna promise you, we won't monkey with any of that.

All we will do, is let you video this trick

from an angle that will show you how it's done

And I think Teller's found someone who knows how to use her cellphone.

Come on right up here.

- What's your name, please ma'am? - Stephanie.

Stephanie. Right over here please, Stephanie.

Gonna move you over on this side of me, if I may.

And Stephanie, this is your cellphone, right here.

And you have someone with you, Stephanie, that knows your cellphone number?

- Yes. - And who is that, Stephanie?

- That's my friend, Emily, over there. - Your friend Emily.

Now Emily, if you'd call Stephanie please,

I'm gonna hold the phone up so we'll all hear the ringtone.

And I'll answer this for you, this is Emily,

- is this right? - Yes.

Hello, Emily, what are you wearing?

Bye!

We're gonna have you call twice more during this bit.

So be ready for that, okay, Emily?

Would you turn in this into video mode and start the video rolling?

- Is it rolling now? - Yeah.

Okay, lets give you a little thing to remember.

Good evening, my name is Penn Jillette, my partner Teller, we are Penn and Teller

and Fool Us is proud to present Stephanie! Yeah, give it up for her now.

Oh, this is a beautiful video, you're gonna love this.

Look at that! Look at them going crazy for you, Stephanie.

Stephanie, strike a pose!

Strike a pose, there you go!

Stephanie, this is beautiful.

And Stephanie, we would never have you on stage

without giving you a video of you with a very famous person.

Could you pose here with Elton John? Actually it's over here in England,

so it's not just Elton John, it is Sir Elton John.

Come over here, Stephanie, right over here.

And just stand right next to him.

Beautiful, there he is, there's... There's the Sir, there's the Elton John,

there's Stephanie, and there's our wonderful audience right there.

Beautiful. Beautiful.

Stephanie, stand right on that double blue dot, please.

There's a cup underneath your chair there, could you give that to me, please?

Yeah, we put this under before, this is a...

You open it up yourself, Stephanie.

That's an empty coffee cup, it's clean and dry there.

I want you to know that,

'cause we're gonna put your phone inside it.

When you're watching this back, Stephanie,

at this point, you'll still hear all the audio,

but it's gonna go all white of course, it's gonna be inside the cup.

Then, it's gonna go dark, 'cause I'm putting this on,

there's one little sip hole.

I'll put this right on here, Stephanie. Make sure your phone is safely...

Sorry, Stephanie!

And I'm a juggler too, that's the weird part.

Stand right here, Stephanie, back up a bit.

I'm gonna put this right down here.

Now just focus right on that, Stephanie.

Focus on your phone, that you saw in there.

Focus on it. Think about it and...

Mazel tov!

You know, Stephanie, when I can't find my cellphone,

what I usually do is, I have my wife call it.

And then everybody listens in for the ringtone.

If we all listen and if we all point to where the sound is coming from,

we can usually then find the cellphone.

You're gonna be so surprised, Stephanie, the places we found my cellphone.

Very, very unusual.

Now, Emily, if you would please,

call Stephanie's phone again, and let's all listen.

If you hear words coming from, please point to it.

If you hear it, point to it.

Sounds like its coming...

from right down there

that very well lit, that empty seat right next to you there.

- Yeah. - Now, what is on that seat?

- A box that says "do not touch". - A box that says "do not touch".

Has that box been there since you came in to the theater?

Yeah, it has.

Take the box, pick it up, would you please?

- The box is sealed shut, is that right? - Yeah.

Would you hand that box forward? Yeah, keep handing it front to this corner

and this woman right here in the corner, when the box comes to you,

would you stand up and walk across the gap to Stephanie here?

Now, Stephanie, come over here, in the center of the stage here.

Now look at the box carefully, it's sealed shut, is that right?

Would you open that box please? Pull the tape off.

And then lift the top off the box.

Didn't...

Yeah, it shouldn't be, just tear on this side.

And just pull, and lift the top off

and tell us what's inside the box, Stephanie!

- It's a fish! - A fish!

Inside the box, is a fish!

Stephanie, what kind of fish is that?

- Smelly. - It's smelly, yes, it's also Tilapia,

which is originally an African fish, but now aqua-farmed all over.

And I want you to use your nose, Stephanie.

And make sure, you've already said this, make sure that is indeed a real fish.

Teller will hold it up for you, give that a whiff.

- Is that a real fish? - Oh, yeah.

Okay, it's in there. Stephanie, hold this microphone right here, would you please?

Hold it right to the fish's gills.

Now you're gonna hear a few things here,

hear the fish's head being cut off here. Emily, call the phone again.

Hear the fish's head being cut off, call it, Emily.