There’s a few negative comments on here about this act. In the early 90’s this was absolutely groundbreaking. Magic had been top hats, sequin dresses and closely guarded secrets up to this point. Penn and Teller were the first ones to ‘blow the lid off’ magic and play the anarchists. It truly felt like you were watching something you shouldn’t see. This is a fantastic routine.
@@hyper_joe they mentioned that they retired this bit, and its last appearance was on James Corden's show, and honestly I can't blame them. they're getting older and teller can't slide like he used to :(
Them revealing the trick takes none of the magic from me, I still love it. It feels more like really cool dance choreography. That’s pretty impressive for me since tricks being boring for me once they’re revealed is the main reason I ultimately decided not to continue practicing magic as a kid. It’s really hard for me not to feel completely detached from even the most incredible trick once it’s revealed.
Penn and Teller are among the greatest magicians of our time. I think only David Blaine is at their level. David does like actual, real esoteric magic, and Penn and Teller took the old style and evolved it as far as it could go. Both insanely impressive.
"Their level?" I'm assuming you're talking about level of Fame. You are definitely not talking about skill. While I like Penn and teller... While I like David blaine... There are dozens of magicians that make all three of them look like amateurs... Those master magicians also create all the tricks famous magicians do... You just don't see them on the TV very often.
2:50 Although I would never condone taking the Lords name in vain [being the Catholic that I am], there was just something hilarious about the way Penn Jillette said “Jesus Christ” to the audience for applauding!!!
@@Chance57 well, every religion is different and I don’t think it’s right that you talk about another persons religion no matter what their beliefs are! I would never do that to you or anyone else who is of a different religion than me.
@@josephgmoretti I'm sorry, what exactly did I say wrong? It's just a fact that during his lifetime he was never called Jesus. People likely called him Christ to his face but not as his name. Since Christ just isn't a name. It wasn't passed down to him through his mother or father, Christ is a title. My name is corey. If I go to china, my name is still corey. If I go to spain, my name is still corey. My name doesn't change just because the local language has.
"We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." H.L. Minkin I think that's wrong. We don't need to respect the other fellow's religion at all. Minkin muddies the waters by blurring together items from very distinct categories. The theory that your wife is beautiful is an aesthetic judgment. Even if you phrase that judgment so that sounds like a truth claim "I she's beautiful." You and I both know, don't we, that this is just short hand for "She's beautiful to me." I have no reason to respond to this statement. I can leave this belief alone. I'm not implicated by it in any way that only comes if you go a step further and say, "She's beautiful, isn't she?" in which case prepare yourself for an honest answer. Religion on the other hand is in the business of asserting facts about existence and does implicate me irretrievably and it requires my response every time. If your reasons for asserting these facts stand up to scrutiny I have some rethinking to do. If they're based on unsubstantiated phenomena and fallacious arguments, I don't. Oddly, mirroring the way aesthetic judgments get phrased like truth claims, religious truth claims frequently gets raised like aesthetic judgments. We often hear a believer of some god say "He's real to me." In many cases, this is simply to block any possible challenge translating to "He's real to me, no matter what you say." but in other cases this strangely personalized reality claim offers an implicit bargain: "If you let me make my truth claims unchallenged, I'll let you make yours." It attempts to establish sympathetic interests between both parties. It says, "Hey, we can both come out winners here if we agree to turn the other way while we both do something very bad epistemologically." Other folks, take a more psychologically hardline approach invoking a mutual obligation. Here the message is, "I'm willing to let you make your truth claims unchallenged so you should let me make mine." but reality can't be bargained within this way. The earth isn't a flat disc for you and a globe for me just because we make some wishful pact. If you're claiming that any gods exist then you're making a truth claim about a reality of which I'm a part and it is your burden to substantiate it. Respecting beliefs is just asking for special treatment. I can't respect an obviously wrong. God belief and I feel like you don't actually respect them. Either. You think people following different gods are going to burn in hell eternally and you think that is justice and morally correct. Well, the same way I don't have to agree to live and let live when some moribly reprehensible pedophile tries to tell me why his beliefs shouldn't be challenged, I don't need to make the exception for you either considering how much human misery you'd happily ignore so that you could enjoy paradise.
There’s a few negative comments on here about this act. In the early 90’s this was absolutely groundbreaking. Magic had been top hats, sequin dresses and closely guarded secrets up to this point. Penn and Teller were the first ones to ‘blow the lid off’ magic and play the anarchists. It truly felt like you were watching something you shouldn’t see. This is a fantastic routine.
The trick is that the song is such an earworm that i have to watch this every year or so when this song pops on my head.
Same here! I’ve ripped the audio from another video (music-only, no chat) and put it on my iTunes/phone.
Absolutley genius routine. Was so on point. To understand that the old tricks were not amazing anymore but the performance itself IS.
This was the very first time I saw Penn and Teller and...loved them ever since. :)
"Hey Paul Daniels, Suck on this" Couldn't stop laughing
Remember when Teller could use his own feet for the upside down foot part instead of fake feet :(
yh i just watched this vid to see that part :I great that they're still performing tho!
@@hyper_joe they mentioned that they retired this bit, and its last appearance was on James Corden's show, and honestly I can't blame them. they're getting older and teller can't slide like he used to :(
@@hyper_joe Did you also come here after seeing that comment on the James Corden video?
Them revealing the trick takes none of the magic from me, I still love it. It feels more like really cool dance choreography. That’s pretty impressive for me since tricks being boring for me once they’re revealed is the main reason I ultimately decided not to continue practicing magic as a kid. It’s really hard for me not to feel completely detached from even the most incredible trick once it’s revealed.
Teller does all the work!!
there is a reason that Penn call himself carnie trash. Teller does the hard work and Penn makes Teller's hard work impressive to the audience.
Not all of the work... Penn was doing work on top, but yes Teller does most of the work in their act and Penn does a lot of misdirection.
They elevate each other.
I guess I was around 12 when this was first aired in the UK - straight up lost my mind
Penn & Teller are awesome.
I watch this regularly. Not for the act, but for the song. It's great.
ALWAYS SAYS HAD TO GET THEESE BUILT SPECISL
4:30 Teller just dancin'. We got time. :D
Let's just say Just For Laughs audiences really appreciated this trick than the AGT ones
Ain't no mystery....it's just trickery
What about the magicians who love Penn & Teller?
If Penn and Teller could make Ben Elton disapear for good thatd be the perfect trick.
This must be before they did Unpleasant World, who knows when this was made?
Late 80s I reckon.
Penn and Teller are among the greatest magicians of our time. I think only David Blaine is at their level. David does like actual, real esoteric magic, and Penn and Teller took the old style and evolved it as far as it could go. Both insanely impressive.
"Their level?"
I'm assuming you're talking about level of Fame.
You are definitely not talking about skill.
While I like Penn and teller...
While I like David blaine...
There are dozens of magicians that make all three of them look like amateurs...
Those master magicians also create all the tricks famous magicians do...
You just don't see them on the TV very often.
Sad sad day when these 2 are no longer with us
Why Am I here RIP teller, what a way to go. Hope it was quick
Wait they're still alive... what???
@@sirpickle2347 no 1 said they were I said it would be a sad day when they are no longer with us
Why Am I here No, I am trying to just say that they aren’t dead yet. Also, Andrew Nevarez is wrong because Teller isn’t dead.
@@bernardli9514 Penn & Teller did a trick with a shark. RIP. They got food poisoning from craft services.
if Penn would know me, he would lov me :)
anybody now what show this was on or what year? im thinking potentially 1994 but im uncertain
Going by other things on the tape it was on, it's likely to be 1992. It was part of a show called Just For Laughs, from the Montreal Comedy Festival.
2:50 Although I would never condone taking the Lords name in vain [being the Catholic that I am], there was just something hilarious about the way Penn Jillette said “Jesus Christ” to the audience for applauding!!!
It's cool bro. Names don't translate and Christ is a title. Your god was never actually named Jesus Christ so his name hasn't been taken in vain.
@@Chance57 well, every religion is different and I don’t think it’s right that you talk about another persons religion no matter what their beliefs are! I would never do that to you or anyone else who is of a different religion than me.
@@josephgmoretti I'm sorry, what exactly did I say wrong? It's just a fact that during his lifetime he was never called Jesus. People likely called him Christ to his face but not as his name. Since Christ just isn't a name. It wasn't passed down to him through his mother or father, Christ is a title.
My name is corey. If I go to china, my name is still corey. If I go to spain, my name is still corey. My name doesn't change just because the local language has.
@@Chance57 okay, I could see that this is going nowhere, so you have a nice day!
"We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." H.L. Minkin
I think that's wrong. We don't need to respect the other fellow's religion at all. Minkin muddies the waters by blurring together items from very distinct categories.
The theory that your wife is beautiful is an aesthetic judgment. Even if you phrase that judgment so that sounds like a truth claim "I she's beautiful." You and I both know, don't we, that this is just short hand for "She's beautiful to me." I have no reason to respond to this statement. I can leave this belief alone.
I'm not implicated by it in any way that only comes if you go a step further and say, "She's beautiful, isn't she?" in which case prepare yourself for an honest answer.
Religion on the other hand is in the business of asserting facts about existence and does implicate me irretrievably and it requires my response every time.
If your reasons for asserting these facts stand up to scrutiny I have some rethinking to do. If they're based on unsubstantiated phenomena and fallacious arguments, I don't. Oddly, mirroring the way aesthetic judgments get phrased like truth claims, religious truth claims frequently gets raised like aesthetic judgments. We often hear a believer of some god say "He's real to me." In many cases, this is simply to block any possible challenge translating to "He's real to me, no matter what you say." but in other cases this strangely personalized reality claim offers an implicit bargain: "If you let me make my truth claims unchallenged, I'll let you make yours."
It attempts to establish sympathetic interests between both parties. It says, "Hey, we can both come out winners here if we agree to turn the other way while we both do something very bad epistemologically."
Other folks, take a more psychologically hardline approach invoking a mutual obligation.
Here the message is,
"I'm willing to let you make your truth claims unchallenged so you should let me make mine." but reality can't be bargained within this way.
The earth isn't a flat disc for you and a globe for me just because we make some wishful pact.
If you're claiming that any gods exist then you're making a truth claim about a reality of which I'm a part and it is your burden to substantiate it.
Respecting beliefs is just asking for special treatment. I can't respect an obviously wrong. God belief and I feel like you don't actually respect them. Either. You think people following different gods are going to burn in hell eternally and you think that is justice and morally correct. Well, the same way I don't have to agree to live and let live when some moribly reprehensible pedophile tries to tell me why his beliefs shouldn't be challenged, I don't need to make the exception for you either considering how much human misery you'd happily ignore so that you could enjoy paradise.
Oh God penns dancing was so... Cringe
That is.. the point. It's a parody lol
Thats the point . This is a piss take of that kind of magician and trick
That’s not dancing. It’s misdirection. 😋
@@TakaComicsmisdirecting our attention from... what exactly? The whole trick is done behind cover anyway.
In this routine it's 100% for humor.
I hate that song soooo fn much
damn that act sucks anyway lol
Let's see if you can do it. Shaq tried and failed miserably.
So, if someone can't do it, that means the act doesn't suck? Im not sure I follow
It meant to mock other magicians so i think they did it right
It is one of their more time tricks definitely, but their performance in this show in general seems a bit sluggish.