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♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn and Teller
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host,
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♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Quick warning--
may be hazardous
Tonight's magic could
abrupt amazement,
Common side effects
include,
laughter, inspiration,
improved attitude,
Now let's welcome our
Penn and Teller.
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♪ ♪
Penn and Teller have
And the moment they don't,
becomes a Fool Us trophy winner
in Penn and Teller's
With that in mind,
- Like most magicians,
doing sleight of hand.
I learned how to work
and it was fun for me.
But there was
Secretly, I dreamed
before big audiences.
Cards and coins were not
Then I discovered mentalism,
to amaze a packed theater.
Mentalism uses all my skills,
because a mentalist must seem
forgets they're being tricked.
The trick I will perform
I designed for the toughest
It has a truly unique method.
I'm so honored to perform
that I might retire
It could fool them.
But even
I hope they'll appreciate
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[cheers and applause]
- Put your hands together
of Germany's Yann Yuro.
[cheers and applause]
- Alyson,
tonight, I will show you
any of you have ever seen.
- Good.
It will reveal the essence
I hope.
Until now, it has never
But I have a really
Alyson, would you mind holding
- Sure.
Please don't open it.
There is a prediction
human thing there is, art.
I brought pictures.
Alyson, where would
this picture, on which easel?
- Um...two.
- Your choice.
Then, where would you
- Oh, let's go four.
- Number four.
Try not to be influenced
Resist my mental powers.
- Where would you like
- Five.
Now, Alyson,
your last actual choice.
Make sure it's a good one.
Where would you like this one?
- One.
And that leaves you
the final picture,
to put in position three,
♪ ♪
Alyson.
- This tells me
- Does it?
Look, you put the
That means in first place.
So you are a very
- Ah.
- Obviously, of course,
you put the Uakari
This is the ugliest
You don't.
So if you like this, you are
You put the magician
Because in your core,
you are a huge
You put the Alps
towards the end,
really care about the Alps.
- [gasps]
The Alps are annoying
They just block our view
And finally, New York City
If you don't like
you probably don't
[laughter]
I know you.
I know you so well, Alyson.
- In fact, I even
the pictures in this order.
- Oh.
- So please open
all the papers that are inside
- There are--
- There are white papers
Can I see?
Can I take this--
where did you put them?
♪ ♪
Do you guys--
it doesn't matter.
Give it to me.
This is, uh--
Let's just imagine
on to this the whole time, OK?
Penn and Teller,
you didn't see
- Exactly.
- Edit a few seconds
- Sure.
Alyson.
- Would you please
and hand me the prediction?
- Oh, look, papers.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
You can just drop the envelope
See, the prediction says,
number one helicopter, right?
- Yeah.
- Number two, the U-- the Alps.
- Oh.
Number three, the magician.
Correct.
- Number four...
N--New York City, also wrong.
Number five, the Uakari.
Why?
You could've at least printed
[laughter]
You know what?
That's it. I'm done. Sorry.
- Aww.
♪ ♪
Although...
if you think about it,
I did reveal
I--I failed.
Or as they say,
♪ ♪
You're welcome.
And Alyson, the weird thing is,
you chose this order
of pictures, right?
- You decided
in position 1.
- Helicopter starts with an H,
just like the word human.
You did this because
The Uakari starts with a U.
The magician in the middle,
you could have put
It would have been Mu, not Hu.
You put the magician
You put the Alps in position 4.
And finally, New York City,
human.
[cheers and applause]
- Yann Yuro!
All right, let's do some--
[cheers and applause]
your analysis of me was only
- You're not a dentist?
- No, although I do have
- At least I figured
- There you go.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
So this is your original trick.
- Yeah, I developed that.
I mean, I had friends
But we developed it
- Uh-huh.
- It was the European
And I competed
And I won that.
- That's amazing.
- That was a positive
because that was the
And the magicians liked it.
- Fantastic.
Without giving anything away,
how you developed this trick?
- Yeah, I had the vision
I wanted to have the picture
And then, in the shower,
the idea came to me
And I figured out
comes from a board game
And yeah, you can
- All right, Yann.
Let's find out if your
fooled Penn and Teller.
- It is a masterpiece.
It is brilliant.
The layers on this
- Thank you.
- And the subtleties
The work that's done
and coming back in to
it's so smart.
I mean, that mistake
one of the really
It's so simple in terms
and so complicated
It is just thrilling.
And it's really interesting
when you watch
the props,
at the beginning, the middle,
And the way the middle
is so, so brilliant.
That took us forever to get.
And also,
I mean, I really
I really like the picture
What was it?
- Yeah, that was a Uakari.
- Yeah, Uakari,
That was a beautiful,
And it was just gorgeous
and kind of ugly
And we love this so much.
But we are sad to say,
I snuck maybe a few things in,
as much as we loved it
I don't think you fooled us.
- Yeah.
- Did the two monkeys
- They totally did, yes.
- Aw, well, thank you so much.
Yann Yuro.
- Thanks, goodbye.
[cheers and applause]
More amazing magicians,
show closers, Penn and Teller.
Stay close.
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♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
I don't want to see
I need to see our
And here they are.
- Penn and Teller,
Since we've been on "Fool Us,"
so many wonderful things
Australian TV just did
And last year,
performing Dad's magic
They introduced me as the woman
four times, like this time.
Take that right
And this time.
There was this one.
Thunder from down under.
And boys, I know
This show is like
Here's the thing though, boys.
In our family,
Dad spent a year
I'm going to do
And I have to admit,
a little more each time
There's more to lose
It's toe to toe once again.
And I know we wouldn't
Welcome to the family, boys.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Back with more thunder
here's four-time fooler,
[cheers and applause]
- Hello, Penn. Hello, Teller.
I am so excited to be back
For my fifth appearance
I've decided
First time I was here,
Tonight, I'm going to show you
And you'll notice
One is with this glass.
And you can see in there.
And of course, some milk.
Now, this might look
that fooled you first time out.
But I promise you,
And in fact, I might actually
Now, you know when
I like to change
Tonight's no different.
I'm going to show
So let's agree that if either
I win.
That's fair enough.
♪ ♪
I'll take that as a yes.
- [laughs]
- With this trick, I'm actually
and let you know that
isn't actually happening.
It's not going to happen.
Let me show you.
I have a pail of milk
I'll pour the milk
And you can see
going all the way into the jug.
But like I said,
Now, I'm going
and pour it back
It looks good, doesn't it?
But like I've said,
Now, you might be
well, why didn't that happen?
I tell you why,
It doesn't hold any liquid.
It can't possibly.
It doesn't have a bottom in it.
[audience exclaims]
[applause]
Thank you for that applause.
Now, did that fool you?
Because if it did,
and I can save that
Actually, don't answer,
I will show you this one.
This is even more
I'll actually fill it
all the way up to the top.
Put the back door in place
Now, if I told you
and push it all the way
you might think
But like I've proven before,
the impossible is
I'll give that a turn.
You can see the rod
I'll remove the front door,
And boys,
[cheers and applause]
- Helen Coghlan.
[cheers and applause]
Ah, Helen, hi, welcome back.
- It's nice to be back.
- It's very nice to have you.
I love how upset they get.
You've already fooled
- I know.
- It's so brave of you
- You know what?
There's more pressure on me.
After the third and fourth,
this is getting serious now.
I'm getting nervous
- Aw, why was it
- I don't know.
It was just a bit of fun.
And when I did fool them,
as I said, it was a bit
And then, of course,
is Dad's creation,
it's like,
But no, he's already
- Aw, OK, Helen,
baffled the boys again.
- Hello, Helen.
- Hello, Penn.
- We sure love having
- And I love being here.
- We sure love you.
And we sure love your dad.
He's amazing.
But I do want to say,
this show is called
It is not called
which means,
they're going to be made by us.
- Maybe can we change
- Well, yes,
once you've done that,
But you don't get
As a matter of fact,
can we agree if one fools you,
we're going to give you
no, we did not say, OK.
You just said,
You have brought
And if we can bust one of them,
We're not going to bring
There's none of that jive.
We're not going to do that
It's our [bleep] show.
Is that clear now?
Is that clear?
- It's ours.
- Next year,
- You do not get
We get to write the rules.
And both tricks
And they did.
- [gasps, laughs]
[cheers and applause]
[indistinct]
Oh, my goodness.
- Oh, it is so nice to see you.
Oh, my God.
- Did he say both tricks?
Oh, both tricks.
- Wait, she should
- No, you don't get
- I want to.
Five time fooler,
[cheers and applause]
Yay.
- Thank you so much.
- Aw.
Yippee.
And just like that,
Boys, go get another trophy.
You still got work to do
[cheers and applause]
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♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
One magician has
Can we make it two?
Here comes our next magician.
- Both of my grandfathers
It just made sense to me
But at age 13,
diagnosed me
I've had tics more or less
Sometimes they wax,
but they are always there.
And the crazy thing,
they're gone,
I couldn't be in the military,
but I still wanted
So I've done military shows
On one of my military tours,
that I was going to share
All of a sudden, people were
and they wanted to talk to me,
not just because of the magic.
They wanted to talk to me
and they connected with that.
That was life-changing for me.
I've been embarrassed
I wasn't embarrassed anymore.
I just realized it
The moment that
who knows some cool things,
and we're all human together.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Nashville is known
the Grand Ole Opry,
[cheers and applause]
- Four letter words--
words that offend,
words that get you
fighting words,
who grew up
words that embarrass.
These are alphabet cards,
a bunch of cards
Kids use these
I use them for magic.
Watch closely as I attempt
and cut the cards
that will spell
which is what I hope to do
to Penn and Teller
Remember, the word is "fool."
♪ ♪
Ah, I got the L.
The, uh--oh, hell.
I am so sorry.
I was-- I was afraid something
I tell you what.
Let's put these
[audience laughs]
I've lived most of my life
which is a syndrome that
both the physical
And it is quite difficult.
But over time,
the tics under control.
But the symptoms,
They just transferred
And now my cards--
well, they can't stop cussing.
Sometimes it's magical
it's a giant pain in the--
yeah, exactly.
[laughter]
Thank you.
Sometimes the cards
But sometimes,
Now that it appears
let me see if I can cut
that spell the word "fool."
Ah, awesome.
All right, this next one
F, U-- oh.
Oh, my gosh.
I, um-- oh, you
OK, I know what it is.
They are, uh--
They're abbreviating the phrase
Nope, that's not
[laughter]
I tell you what, let's--
let's teach these cards
I will give the cards
And in so doing,
I will put them
See what I mean, a random--
Jason.
Wow, this is not so random.
"Jason is a"--
why do I have
Oh, Jason is a--
that's not as bad as
oh, OK, Jason is a bitch.
All right, well--
all right.
Let's go back to the beginning.
At age 13, I was diagnosed
And life was difficult.
But at age 16,
And when I performed magic,
And people would applaud
instead of laughing
I couldn't control.
You might say that magic
And that is why
the cards a second chance.
One shuffle, literally
And by giving the cards
I have helped them
So now...
they should be
from the A, B, C,
all the way
And if I cast a shadow
that spelled out H-E-L-L
they now spell out
Ah, damn.
[bleep] you.
I'm Jason Michaels.
I mean, thank you,
[cheers and applause]
- Jason Michaels.
[cheers and applause]
I'm just so excited to see how
- Well, that's a--that's a--
yeah, that's a good--
I don't know how they're
- You're very comfortable being
- I was massively
up until I was in my 30s.
The uncontrollable tics
I was paralyzed
things to me that were unkind.
And what happened was when
all of a sudden, it normalized.
And I didn't-- I realized
embarrassed by,
was just part of who I am.
- Yeah, and you probably were
people who didn't
- I believe that the awareness
The education is good.
But I think that we can still
from people who have really
with something like this
OK, Jason let's find out
know how to spell
[laughter]
- Hey, Jason, you know,
the great beat poet,
said, the poet stands
And I think that
And to take everything
and all the things that we
and then turn that
beautiful and artistic,
and in your case,
is really great.
The way you set up the jokes
and just knock them right down,
how it's--how it's set up.
You let us get ahead
and then surprised us,
And all the comedy was just--
And it's so funny.
And it feels so much
But I got to tell you, Jason.
It's a tough show, because
we have over a century
And we learned a lot more
So the deck is stacked
I just want you to know that.
So even though you did a great,
are wonderful,
we loved about your
we don't think you fooled us.
- Did they code the solution
- They are some of the most
They got it.
- Aw, well, thank you so much.
- Absolutely, thank you.
- Jason Michaels!
[cheers and applause]
If you need a break,
If you want more magic,
Don't go anywhere.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Let's take a peek at
[suspenseful music]
- I know the exact moment
Magic stuff!
- But I never would have
Parents, be very careful
I'm from Brooklyn,
that I like to explore.
My buddy and I put on a show
next to this historic
100 years ago,
fooled the greatest magicians
And it happened right here.
I love being surrounded
A lot of preparation
I work on it everywhere.
Putting in those hours
not just to fool you,
Penn, Teller,
it's not a coin trick,
I think it's something that
And if you've never seen it,
[cheers and applause]
- The next magician messing
is Alexander Boyce.
[cheers and applause]
There are obviously
in the world of magic.
And I think it's finally time
we revealed the big secret
What do you say, Alyson?
- Now, the truth is,
you're actually
- Right.
I know you'll try to deny it.
But I think it's finally time
So I want to see if you
- Oh, OK.
- So did you happen
an antique
with a hand-carved hilt?
- You know,
- Out of all the days.
- Oh, you know what?
- Oh, fantastic.
- Yes, take a look at
and the pointy end.
Make sure it's exactly
In addition,
an ornate, mahogany display
and an opulent
- Oh, my gosh.
I left that back at home too.
- Don't worry. I did.
- I'm so forgetful today.
- I ask you to take
Make sure there's no slits
there in the back.
- So you've looked
Is the bag just a bag?
- It looks like just a bag.
- Now, that will go with this.
Thank you for examining
By any chance, Alyson, did you
a Baroque handbell
- You know,
- You left it?
- Guess what though?
- I brought mine.
- Oh, my gosh, I'm so grateful.
[bell rings]
- Well, you didn't
What do you have?
I see you have your ring.
- Does it slip off?
Or do we need the
It does slip off.
- That's convenient.
- Would you please
- Yes.
- And ring the
Because it would be
the ring to appear
And if we stopped right now,
Penn and Teller might
bit of sleight of hand.
And they'd be right.
So we need to eliminate
Did you happen
a small, lavish, wooden case
in the style
movement of
- I was really
- Don't worry.
I did.
- This way, no sleight
Your ring inside
can't do anything with it now.
So at this point,
examined the fabric.
You're very acquainted
You have the bell.
Would you pick up the bell
[bell rings]
[rattles]
Maybe just a shorter ring.
Oh, yes, Alyson, you can
You can see the ring is gone,
gone from my hands.
You don't have it, do you?
- Oh, don't worry.
Just ring it over the bag now.
And as you might have guessed,
it does appear underneath
But not just that,
on the center of the sword.
Yes or no, Alyson,
trapped there on the center
- Yes.
- Hey, and Alexander.
[cheers and applause]
That was very impressive.
- Thank you. Well, same to you.
How did you do that
- It's just a secret.
Is it something you've
wanted to do your whole life?
- Yeah, it's the only
I remember being 10 or 12
and sitting in that first row
there watching the show.
- And so it's such a treat
- And do you have any crazy
- One time, I got a call
to help them out a little
They needed me
and rush the stage
and jump up and down,
And I was worried that,
if this is the one thing
it would just be a disaster.
- Oh, no.
- So thankfully, it
And I'm still waiting
to get into
- OK, Alexander, let's see
- OK.
- Hey, Alex, good to see you.
Boy, we're--we're big fans.
We were just--
there was one thing that you
online that Teller and I bought
a closer this year.
We ended up not using it.
But next year, we may
You're a wonderful creator,
have such--
in your performance.
And our mentor,
who we love dearly--
always said, you have
you got to talk away the box.
You've got to give some
You've got crazy
exist anywhere in the world.
And the way
is by simply saying
that don't exist anywhere
And I love how honest that is
He just goes,
Fine, we're OK with that
And I also love your style.
You know, there's a lot of
to use, you know,
they get on-tilt,
And you just go right through,
really comfortable,
And I guess I should say
because you're the one
who did all the magic.
And when we watched
we just really enjoyed
And I said to Teller,
I think that would fool
And Teller said, not me.
[laughter]
And he said it with
because you know
But we loved the whole routine.
We don't think you fooled us.
And I think I slipped
- Yeah, I think, Alyson,
to have to keep working on your
- Darn, all right,
But you're very entertaining.
Thank you so much.
- Alexander Boyce!
[cheers and applause]
I know tonight's show
But I still want
How about a masterpiece
Don't go anywhere.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Just like always,
with a trick by our headliners.
So give it up
Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- Yeah, just like always,
That's a lot of tricks
And sometimes, we just get,
well, we get tapped out.
We just had--
that we would just buy someone
We got our friend Woody
He sells magic tricks.
And we just bought
going to just do
to kind of close the show.
So we got this
It's a $784,
It's the most we've ever spent
But it's closing the show.
So it's--it's worth it.
I got the instructions--
But I'll just, um--
I'll read the instructions
We'll go through it.
You kind of follow them,
The instructions
[laughter]
The instructions
They're all in Spanish.
But you know--
Yo hablo un poco de español.
I speak a little Spanish.
So I'll just go
I'll translate as we go.
It'll all be fine.
¿Verdad? Sí.
"¿Verdad? Sí." is kind of
Yeah, and "sí" for you would
That's the same over in Spain.
OK, so we're all set to go.
¿Verdad? Sí.
This is going to
We'll just read through it.
We'll find out
OK, "Hola, amigos."
Hello, friends.
Hola, amigos.
Este truco es muy bueno.
That means
But I said it many times.
Yeah, $784, it should be good.
OK.
¿Verdad? Sí.
We're ready to rock and roll.
Coge el pañuelo...
I don't-- I
But it's also right here.
So it's probably
Let's see what props
Maybe there's a pañuelo.
El pañuelo, it's a hanky.
$784 for a hanky and a spoon,
which I'll just put that aside.
Pañuelo. OK. Perfecto.
¿Verdad? Sí. Sí.
Now, first direction
which I also don't know.
"Nudo," they're
so "nudo"
And "haz," clearly ass.
So it's "ass," "nude,"
I bet it's an idiom, meaning
Get your ass naked.
Everybody take
Not you, Teller.
Everybody watching,
Alyson, take your clothes off.
Ass nude.
Everybody at home, wherever
[laughter]
OK, let's get to the trick.
But so far, it's worth
Enseña el pañuelo--
Well, we know that "el pañuelo"
Enseña--
So we go to stretch
OK, so, uh--
Oh.
Es truco bueno.
Boy, that's--
Oh, nice job, Woody.
that's worth it.
Este truco bueno.
All right, sí.
¿Verdad? Sí. Sí.
OK, now, what do we do next?
Um--
Pon el pañuelo.
OK, take--
En mano.
"En mano" is monkey.
"Mano" is monkey.
So we're supposed
So... ¿verdad? Sí.
Sí, ¿verdad? Sí.
[audience exclaims]
OK, monkey is right there.
¿Verdad? Sí.
Fiesta, fiesta!
Este--este truco bueno.
Bueno is fiesta.
OK, next thing-- boy, this is--
is harder than IKEA here.
But let's see what we do next.
I want--
It says, um--
Sopla, sopla el mano.
Well, "sopla" is soup.
I think it's soup.
So he got the soup there.
"Sopla el mano" means give soup
It's working perfectly.
Give soup to the monkey.
No, no, monkey, monkey.
Have a spoon.
I guess that's what
Sopla mano, good, good, good.
Yep, good.
You happy with that?
- De nada. De nada.
OK, let's see what's next.
Oh, jeez.
Look at this.
The directions are right here
They had--
I got a lot wrong.
Nudo,
Put your clothes on, Alyson.
That's--it means "knot."
It doesn't mean "nude."
So "haz nudo" means
So put your clothes on.
Fiesta is over. No fiesta.
No fiesta.
OK, good.
And "mano"--
"Mano" is--
it's hand.
It's not monkey.
"Mono" is monkey.
"Mano" is hand.
So we don't need the monkey.
No te--no te necesitamos,
Good, so yeah.
Let me see.
So it's very different there.
"Enseña" is not stretch.
It's "show."
So you show el pañuelo.
You show the handkerchief.
And then "nudo, haz nudo"
So you make a knot.
Este truco bueno.
And then "sopla" is not soup.
It's blow.
So you--you blow--
"Sopla mano,"
And then nudo... vanishes.
That's we've ever paid
worth every penny.
Este truco bueno, bueno, bueno.
- Whoo.
- Fiesta!
[cheers and applause]
- Necesitamos vamos.
- We got to go.
There's a gorilla on the loose.
Good night from Las Vegas.
- Adiós. Adiós, mis amigos.
Adiós.
[cheers and applause]