PENN & TELLER
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"We have been doing magic together for 25 years, and are so sick of it we could spit. So, in the new show, we are moving into the field of religion and will be performing real miracles." |
Penn & Teller are a couple of eccentric
guys who have learned how to do a few cool things. Together since 1975, their
award-winning theater show has been a long running hit on and off -Broadway. The
duo keeps a busy touring schedule, performing live more than 100 times this year
alone.
After playing small clubs, theaters and the Renaissance Fair circuit, Penn &
Teller’s off-beat brand of magic and comedy gained national attention when their
stage show opened off-Broadway in 1985, leading to appearances on Late Night
with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, and Miami Vice. In 1987 their stage
show moved to Broadway, the first of two successful runs.
Favorite guests on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David
Letterman, and Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee, Penn & Teller have made dozens of
television appearances including, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Today Show
and Saturday Night Live. Penn & Teller are also frequent guests on several
popular television series, having appeared as Drell and Skippy in the hit ABC
series Sabrina, The Teenage Witch; as attorneys Fenn & Geller on The Drew Carey
Show; as well as appearances on Friends, Dharma & Greg, Babylon 5, Home
Improvement and The Simpsons.
The 1985 PBS special, Penn & Teller Go Public, won two Emmys and the
International Golden Rose. Other television projects have included the recent
Emmy nominated variety series Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular, the ABC
special Penn & Teller's Home Invasion, the Showtime movie Penn & Teller's
Invisible Thread, the NBC special Don't Try This At Home, the PBS Children’s
series Behind The Scenes,, and The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller and Penn &
Teller's Phobophilia, both for Britain's Channel 4. Penn & Teller Get Killed,
directed by Arthur Penn, saw the pair in their big screen debut. Penn & Teller
can currently be seen in Walt Disney’s Fantasia 2000 in movie theaters
everywhere.
Penn & Teller have written two best-selling books, Cruel Tricks for Dear
Friends, and How To Play With Your Food. Their newest book, How To Play In
Traffic, is a collection of practical jokes, miracles and anecdotes that makes
travel funnier than ever before.
The duo serve as Visiting Scholars at MIT, which is the highest honor bestowed
by the school and have lectured at the Smithsonian Institute and Oxford
University. Penn & Teller were recently named two of the funniest people alive
in Entertainment Weekly's "50 Greatest Comedians Today" issue
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