[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller
in Las Vegas,
here's our host,
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome to "Fool Us".
I've been around this show
to learn a trick or two,
I'm sending you an image
of a famous magic duo.
Are you seeing Penn and Teller?
Huh.
Now, let's bring
and bring out our stars,
[cheers and applause]
If a magician wants to walk
they've got to successfully
Let's see if our first magician
[upbeat piano music]
- After my first appearance
the host,
- Listen, I think that's
I've ever seen, in my life.
- After my second appearance,
Penn said incredibly
- You are the greatest
working in the world today.
- What I'm hoping
is that I can
into saying something nice.
So this is just a small sample
of my plaid collection.
It turns out plaid
This was "eating
Yeah, the first time I was on,
I ate a live guinea pig.
[audience shouting]
Second time I was on,
- No.
- Wait till you see
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome back a friend
of the "Fool Us" family,
Mac King.
[cheers and applause]
[laughs]
Oh, hey, you guys,
[laughter]
Seriously, the toilet
- Is it?
- Yes.
[laughter]
I know that doesn't make
but I need to borrow
Some sort of bill.
- I'm working, Mac.
- You got no cash?
- Whoa.
- You've got money
What do you got there?
A 50?
- Ooh, as you know,
[laughter]
- Yeah.
- So I'm gonna talk to you
from the monkey room.
I'll be back.
- Ooh.
- [laughs]
- Well, we've never had
in the middle of their act,
but there's a first time
[laughter]
- Guys, this is the Penn
where Penn and Teller relax
[laughter]
Come on in.
[quirky music]
Here's what happens.
Everything I eat,
and then deposit
after I flush it away,
it immediately
in this tank.
♪ ♪
But not just in that tank,
but in that tank
undigested form.
Allow me to demonstrate.
- Please.
- This simulates me eating
and digesting
your $50 bill.
I'm now depositing it
into the toilet.
Wait.
I meant--
I meant to keep
I'm going in.
- Ooh.
- All right.
[laughter]
Watch, as the other
or 15 pieces
magically disappear.
Gone.
As I said, whatever I flush
into the magic toilet
instantly reappears back here
in its original, uneaten,
I'll show you.
floating in the tank
is a $50 bill.
Not just any $50 bill,
but a $50 bill missing a piece.
Not just any piece,
but the exact piece
[audience oohs]
- You guys,
This is the third time
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- Mac King.
- You're a disgusting pig.
- It's not my toilet.
- Oh, dear.
Uh-uh.
- That's why I don't carry
- Oh.
- Very smart.
- Oh, aw.
- It's still good,
[laughter]
- That is definitely one way
to get you to give up carbs.
- This is from three days ago.
- [laughs]
- Oh, boy.
- I had the straw in
[laughter]
- What's it been like
for all these years?
- Man, we've known each other
and every time
I feel like I know them better,
and I feel like
- Yeah, well, you certainly
I can see that.
- Hopefully, they feel
[laughter]
- They might feel a little
letting you use
- Or spend their money.
Let's see if they can flush out
- All right.
[laughter]
- Hello.
- Mac King.
- Jillette.
- We start all of these busts
by complimenting the magician.
- And then...
- What can we say about you
We have said greatest
We have said our best friend.
- We have said one of
and one of the best magicians.
Is there a superlative
What would you like us to say
that we have not said,
- You know what it is,
[laughter]
- And you're right,
- Yeah.
- On both counts,
That too.
I think,
they have to see
it takes for a magician
to actually flush
Which you actually did.
Actually cost you cash money.
And for all
let's break this trick down.
Number one and number two.
[laughter]
You had a lot of opportunities
to do sneaky stuff
while you were off camera,
because you like
- Right.
that the amazing thing
Mac King,
is there really is
It's a magic toilet.
- We're supposed to now
how you did the trick.
- Oh, I see.
and you really flushed
- Oh, yeah.
- I'm not as smart
I get it now.
- And thank you for being
into our toilet
to do one of the greatest bits
But you did not fool us.
- Is that right, Mac?
- He's correct.
and I flushed 50 bucks away.
- Aw.
Well, you didn't fool them,
And next time,
- I will.
[cheers and applause]
- Bye, guys.
- We'll be back
quicker than you
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Let's see if this next magician
can crack open the "Fool Us"
Take a look.
- I was introduced to magic
My father was his bodyguard.
Most people don't realize that
and he used to do levitation.
And he took
put it in his fist,
and made it disappear.
And to a five-year-old,
like I was,
I have a PhD in psychology.
It gives my magic more realism
because I understand
and what they're thinking.
It's the kind of magic
I like to know that I'm having
Penn and Teller,
the Muhammad Ali
[cheers and applause]
- Prepare yourself
of David Shareef.
- Hello, Alyson.
- You too.
- I want to tell you a story.
This is a true story.
You can look it up
- Okay.
- Several years ago
there was a man riding
around 8:00 in the evening,
True story.
He was hit
And in the back of the cab,
had a passenger.
A year later,
on the same
around the same time
the man's twin brother,
riding the same motor scooter,
was hit and killed
by the same taxicab driver
with the same passenger
Now, that's a coincidence.
I'm gonna try and create
but a lot less deadly okay?
- Please.
- Yeah.
Now, here's what
I'm going to have you
and put it in my hand.
[dark music]
- Good, and you're gonna take
And put it in your hand
- Okay.
Now, here's what
Just gonna go off of motion,
So I'm gonna go through
and I want you
- So just do what you're doing?
- Yeah, just go through
- Okay.
- See if I can go
♪ ♪
Yeah.
- Yes.
- Good, good, good.
- Okay.
- Okay, and what I want you
and put it on top of my deck.
Now, you take my card,
I'm going to use you
and use me as a table.
- Now, here's
Just take a peek,
- Okay.
Okay, put your card down here
There you go.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- And this is the card
- Mm-hmm.
- Let's see how we did.
Would it be crazy,
would it be weird,
if you've got the twin
like in our story?
[laughter]
- And that's our
[audience oohs]
- That's crazy isn't it?
- I tell you what.
You can give your cards a cut.
- Just like I did.
Good, good, good.
Now, here's what
Going to do the same thing.
We're gonna go through
and pick out one that
- Okay.
- You got one?
- And you can take my card,
and put it on top of your deck.
And I'm gonna take yours
Good, this time let's do it
because Penn and Teller's
They want to say,
"Where is this sleight
- Okay.
- All right, but I'm that good.
- I have a pen.
I'm gonna put a little smiley
- Aw.
- Okay.
And then you put your initials
or draw
- I do smiley faces too.
- There's another coincidence,
but I'll do my initial too.
- Good.
Now, let's let them see
Okay?
And now,
- Okay.
Wait.
Should I have looked?
- Oh, that's--no.
because I'm praying
[laughs]
On the count of three,
- Okay.
- One, two, three.
[audience oohs]
And that's
[applause]
But Alyson, it could have
It could not have happened
This is the only way
Do you know why?
- Well, I'm not riding
- Because there are no cards.
I know.
"Wait a minute.
- Mm-hmm.
Literally, all the rest
Turn yours over.
- What?
[gasps]
- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
- David Shareef.
That's crazy.
- Yeah, that's magic, but that
And the weirdest part
that were killed
to two twin sisters.
- Oh.
- So you have
- Yes.
- So did knowing Ali influence
- Oh, absolutely.
In fact, I'm a three-time
- So knowing a champ
- Knowing a champ
of whatever I do,
I have to be the best at it.
You know, like,
Well, nobody's ever rode
So whatever it is, you know,
- So why do you adopt
a sort of creepy style
- Because I like
You know, I like to do
Talking to Jack the Ripper
- But you're not creepy,
- I know.
- All right.
if your creepy story
- Nice, nice job.
- You're taking a card trick,
and making it have
and having all that atmosphere,
And making a card trick
You know, it's always
It's also great that Alyson
really has complete
all the way through.
There's no force.
You really do pick
Any card you want,
And to do that kind of thing,
you gotta get into magic,
and then have a lot
to be able to keep going
and be able to control that.
So you can have an open thing,
And you say that story
- Yeah.
- Goodness gracious.
- Everyone is gonna be
- Oh, yeah.
because you know everything
- Mm-hmm.
Anyway, it was
Really great tone.
Everything else, but I think
and maybe gives you an idea
that we might have some idea
- What do you think?
Do they know
- I don't know what the hell
[laughter]
Maybe Teller can tell me.
- Okay, we're gonna have Teller
but things are
because we now have
So Teller's not gonna have
He can actually call you.
- Oh, there you go.
- Hello, Mom?
- [inaudible whispering]
- Oh, okay.
All right.
I got it now.
- First of all,
he sounds like
[laughter]
They busted me, but I swear
out in space, I will be back,
- Okay.
- We look forward to it.
- I know.
- I know, thank you very much.
- Thank you so much.
- All right.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
- Later on tonight, you'll see
And right after the break,
you'll meet
Stay close.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
A mysterious package
and inside is
[cheers and applause]
- Live
please welcome Alejandro Navas.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Penn.
It's a pleasure for me
Teller, you have
Excellent.
I am very excited, because
I am going to try to make
and in your hands.
All right.
Excellent.
Now, take the first card,
and place it like this.
Yeah.
Place card one
And just stop
Ready?
Place the card like this.
Excellent.
Don't see them
All right.
Two cards at random right?
For example, take this card,
yeah, and place it like this.
What would happen
That would be your card right?
So we got two cards at random.
So take one of those cards,
Don't let me see it.
One.
Remember the card, Penn.
Place it back right here.
Excellent.
Now, take the other card
and show it to me.
Queen of hearts.
Excellent.
All right.
One card for me,
And now, Teller,
Do as I do.
Take the cards
Place it like this.
Cut.
Place them.
Excellent.
And separate the cards
from the face down.
Yeah.
Separate them.
Now, only you, Teller,
look and remember
Don't share it with anybody,
Because it's a secret card.
Like this.
[laughter]
Excellent.
A secret card, right?
And take it like this,
and let's do
All right.
Place them
Yeah.
believe it or not,
I'm going to find
But not with my deck.
In your deck.
All right.
The queen of hearts.
Let me see it.
Oh, yes.
It's in the position
Yeah.
Wait.
[laughter]
Now it's in the tenth.
Wait a minute.
This is not any card
It's an ambitious card.
And now,
it's at the first position.
Come on.
The queen of hearts.
Yeah!
[laughs]
Now, Teller, throw it.
Throw it.
All right.
Now, the second card.
- The king of hearts.
- [gasps]
It's also moving
Three, two, one.
It's at the top right now.
Come on.
Yeah!
[applause]
Now, the last one.
The last one is
because only you saw it.
All right, Teller.
Place your hand like this
on the table.
Take the card.
Don't let me see it
and place it like this.
Yeah.
Now, take the deck and...
[sighs]
Throw it!
Yeah, yeah.
Now, sandwich the card.
Don't open it.
[sighs]
Now, I'm going
[sighs]
But...
I think I got it.
[laughs]
Teller...
this is not your card right?
No.
This is the jack of hearts.
But when I move this card
your card also moves.
Do you feel that?
[blows]
Now, Teller,
this is your card.
Wait, wait.
This is your card, right?
And you know, when the card
you know?
[laughter]
And you know
Between your hands.
[audience oohs]
- Thank you.
- Alejandro Naves.
[cheers and applause]
- Hola.
- It's amazing you can
all the way from Costa Rica.
- Yeah.
It's so weird, right?
- If you don't know how,
then that's a good sign
- I hope so.
- How have you met
of working long distance?
- Well, Alejandro, let's see
if a trophy
- [sighs]
I don't know how well
but that was a [bleep]
[laughter]
A fabulous trick,
you did a really smart thing.
You took the really smart guy,
and you took him
Teller's the brains
Everybody knows that.
You put him in charge
so at the end,
you 100% fooled Teller.
Teller had no idea
how you did it.
So this is a rare moment
where I've got
- All right.
- So here we go.
During the past few months,
how to do tricks remotely.
a few key principles
And I think I have an idea
of how you did it.
And I also think
but right as of now,
you're halfway there,
because you completely
[laughter]
And there's a little bit
of the language barrier
so let's hear from the judges
They've heard
They know how you're doing it,
Whether you fooled me
I am gonna be very happy
- Aw.
and I also like
- Hmm, yes, so I'm hearing
I'm sorry to say
you did not fool
[audience oohs]
- But it was
- Fabulous.
- Alejandro Naves.
Thank you.
Don't vanish on us.
"Fool Us" will be right back
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
"Fool Us" fans will definitely
Take a look.
[upbeat music]
- My first time on "Fool Us"
and I try not to look
Then Teller noticed
and he waved at me.
And it totally put me at ease.
- You fooled Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- "Fool Us" changed my life.
After I fooled Penn and Teller,
to do an off-Broadway
my dream, and it came true.
The first time you come
It's simply about
But this time, it's chess.
They have expectations
On both sides,
I have high expectations
I always want to come up
that have never
Tonight, I'd like to prove
but I'm also trying to prove
[cheers and applause]
- Back to try for his second
give it up for Vitaly Beckman.
[cheers and applause]
- I started doing magic
in my parents' home.
Whenever they had visitors,
they also became my audience.
Ever since, I've been fortunate
and perform
including on yours,
Isn't it ironic that, today,
life has come full circle,
and I'm back performing
But this time,
And actually, before I
And I used to carry
to sketch my impressions.
My inspirations.
I think I'm gonna
I'm gonna sketch
[bright classical music]
♪ ♪
As simple as a leaf.
One of the beautiful things
Not only you can put
like in painting,
but you can also make it...
Real.
And you can even remove it
And this is what drove me
The desire to transform
what I imagine into reality.
And actually, over the years,
I learned to use the art
Like many of you,
And every morning,
I start my day with something
[Offenbach's "Can-Can"]
♪ ♪
[audience oohs]
[applause]
Mmm.
[audience oohs]
I guess it was all
[cheers and applause]
- Vitaly Beckman.
Ah.
- Thanks for having me back.
- Well, that is
- Well, you know, it's funny.
Those sketch pads,
I actually use them
The idea to sketch
a muffin and coffee.
It's kind of inspired
'cause when it started
people didn't want to go
And I thought,
"Well, why don't I just sketch
But the first one you saw,
the one where
- Yes.
I invented it
when I was just
I was painting before that,
and so the first thought
"Let's turn my paintings
And this is also my philosophy
to come up with things
- So you're a true original?
- I'm trying to be.
You know, that's what
That's kind of what drives me,
Other than muffins, of course.
Penn and Teller, do you know
- Hey, Vitaly.
- You're a nice guy.
- Thanks, guys.
- You came on the show once.
We kind of thought,
"Here's a nice guy.
and we'd kind of
We didn't take a dive.
No doubt about it,
you come back a second time,
all of a sudden,
- Uh-oh.
Now, you're someone
because we do not like
- Uh-oh.
- So I'm not saying that
I'm saying last time
- Okay.
- Now, we're going to be
- All right.
- And I'm going to
- Okay.
- You ready for
- Yes.
- Now, I'm gonna ask you
No code.
- Okay.
So we may give up your trick,
'cause I don't give a damn,
Don't want you
So you ready?
You ready to play
You ready?
I'm ready.
- Were there mirrors involved
- No.
- Okay, fine.
- [laughs]
- Was there another person
- No, in no way,
other than the videographer.
- Right.
We knew that too.
- We knew those two things.
We knew them very well.
that we also
But you ready for this?
- Did you fool us?
- Yes, you did.
[cheers and applause]
- Yay!
- Thank you, guys.
- Aw.
- I got it for today.
[laughter and applause]
- You fooled
- Well, just draw another one,
- Yeah, I got it right here.
- There you go.
All right.
Well, accepting the real one
And great job.
- Thank you.
Thanks, Penn and Teller.
- One more time.
- Give it up for
- Thank you,
- Whoo-hoo.
- Penn and Teller are fooled,
They were only fooled once,
but I'm saying it three times
Boys, shake it off
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Penn and Teller
from the strangest places.
In this next trick, they may
this nursery rhyme forever.
Give it up for Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
[soft piano music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Alone in the kitchen ♪
♪ A late afternoon ♪
♪ Patiently there
[laughter]
- ♪ No one has seen him ♪
♪ Since early morn ♪
♪ But soon
♪ 'Cause he's a little teapot ♪
♪ Short and stout ♪
♪ Here is his handle ♪
♪ Here is his spout ♪
♪ When he gets his steam up ♪
♪ Hear him shout ♪
- [whistles]
- ♪ Tip him over,
[laughter]
[applause]
[laughter]
- ♪ He's a clever teapot ♪
♪ Yes, it's true ♪
♪ Let us show you ♪
♪ What he can do ♪
♪ He can change his handle ♪
♪ And his spout ♪
- [whistles]
- ♪ Tip him over ♪
♪ And pour him out ♪
[laughter]
[applause]
[cheers and applause]
- We've filled up on
but come back next time
for another
Bon appetit from Las Vegas.
[cheers and applause]