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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is an American documentary television series that aired from 2003 to 2010 on the premium cable channel Showtime.The series premiered on January 24, 2003, and 89 episodes aired over the course of the series in the span of eight seasons, concluding on August 12, 2010.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! was hosted by professional magicians and skeptics Penn & Teller.Its format consisted of debating political topics, usually from a naturalist libertarian capitalist point of view (the political philosophy then espoused by both Penn and Teller) [2] or aiming to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, paranormal beliefs, popular fads and misconceptions.
Since 2010, Penn & Teller have hosted Penn & Teller: Fool Us, originally on ITV, moving to The CW in 2015. Penn & Teller credit magician and skeptical activist James Randi for their own careers. During an interview at TAM! 2012 , Penn stated that Randi's book Flim-Flam! was an early influence on him, and said that "If not for Randi there would ...
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller.
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie is a six-part series starring Penn Jillette and Teller. Each episode contains six or seven stories, [2] including a demonstration performed by the hosts during the recording of the show as the last story. One of the stories is falsified, and the rest are true.
Penn & Teller in 2012. Teller began performing with his friend Weir Chrisemer as The Othmar Schoeck Memorial Society for the Preservation of Unusual and Disgusting Music. He met Penn Jillette in 1974, and, with Chrisemer, they became a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which started at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and subsequently played in San Francisco.
For Penn Jillette's latest trick, he made a hundred and five pounds disappear! The sixty-year-old illusionist told People Magazine he's dropped from 330 to 225 pounds since drastically changing ...
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! was hosted by professional magicians and skeptics Penn & Teller. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its format consists of debating political topics, often from a naturalist libertarian capitalist point of view (the political philosophy espoused by both Penn and Teller) [ 3 ] or aiming to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, paranormal beliefs ...