[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- From the Penn & Teller Theatre
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan!
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us." People often wonder how we find
the best magicians in the world.
We don't. They find us.
That's because we're the best damn magic show on the planet,
or maybe it's because we're the only ones
that give away a fancy trophy
to anyone who fools the stars of our show,
the two and only Penn and Teller!
♪ ♪
Remember, any magician who fools Penn and Teller
also earns a trip to Las Vegas,
performing in their world-famous magic show.
And, with that in mind,
let's meet our first act of the night.
- Hi, I'm Amanda Nepo,
and I'm a 16-year-old magician.
When I was 11 years old,
I spent my first night away from home
at magic camp.
I absolutely loved it. Over the last two years,
social media has been my biggest source of creativity.
It's helped me grow so much as a magician
because I like to challenge myself
to develop new tricks constantly.
I'm interested in studying engineering.
I love to figure out how things work
and bring it to life.
I never really liked copying other people's magic,
so I decided to create my own.
When I was 14, I sold my first original trick.
And now I'm lecturing, mentoring, and teaching magic.
I not only want to make my name as a magician,
but also as a young woman who teaches magic.
Growing up, I didn't have any young magicians to look up to.
Tonight, I hope I can be
that inspiration to other kids.
Who knows?
Maybe I could teach Penn and Teller
a thing or two.
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome this promising young star of magic,
Amanda Nepo.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, I'm Amanda Nepo.
When I started magic, the first thing I learned
was how to shuffle a deck of cards.
It was a nice start, but I wanted to learn some magic.
So I learned a classic: pick a card trick.
Alyson, could you just say "stop" whenever?
- Stop. - There?
Would you like to change your mind?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Stop.
- So, Alyson, this will be your card.
- Okay. - Please remember it.
Now I can lose it back into the deck,
but simply finding it probably won't impress you guys.
So what if I found it in a really awesome way?
What if I showed you one of the coolest things
I can do with a deck of cards?
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Boom! A fan!
I know, so cool!
So impressive! It's insane!
Penn, Teller, what do you think of that?
[laughs]
And notice there's one card facedown.
If I did this right, that should be Alyson's card.
Alyson, what was your card?
- Eight of hearts. - Eight of hearts?
This is the part where I take out the card
to show that it's her card,
but I can't,
not because it's not her card--
I'm pretty sure it is--
but you can only take a card out of a real deck.
You see, when I first learned this,
I couldn't do a card fan,
and instead, I just used a printed piece of paper.
Thankfully, I always print on both sides.
There is Alyson's card, the eight of hearts.
You know, it's actually pretty easy to make one of these.
All you need is a printed photo of a fan.
You cut it out and hold it to pretend
as if you're holding a fan of cards.
Now, Teller, you're a skilled magician.
You don't need this printed fan.
But you gotta admit, it looks pretty good.
But if we really wanted to finish the trick,
you would have to be able to take the card out,
put it back the right way, close the fan,
and start shuffling.
Now that I have the deck back,
let me show you one of the hardest tricks
known by magicians,
and that is taking a mixed-up deck of cards
and doing something truly impossible
with every single card.
Watch the deck.
♪ ♪
It didn't look like much,
but now the deck is in perfect order.
It starts with the ace of spades.
It goes all the way up to the king.
♪ ♪
Same for the diamonds,
the clubs, and the hearts.
And, look, there's one card facedown.
Of all the cards between the nine and the seven of hearts,
facedown,
Alyson's card, the eight of hearts.
[applause]
Now, that's pretty hard.
♪ ♪
It was so hard
that when I first learned it,
I just used
a printed piece of paper.
Thank you. I'm Amanda Nepo, and I hope you enjoyed.
- Ah, Amanda Nepo!
[cheers and applause]
Wow, that was so impressive.
- Thank you.
- And what made you decide to leap into magic?
- Well, one day, I just searched up on YouTube,
"How to do a magic trick?"
- And so how long after that first video that you watched
till the first trick you invented yourself?
- I really started creating, like, my own tricks
from, like, start to finish
from when I was, like, around 14.
- So you want to be an engineer.
Do you think you'll always be a magician as well?
- I mean, I hope magic stays
a big part of my life. I mean--
- Is this going to change the course
of your engineering path?
Your parents are like, "No!"
- [laughs]
I mean, I don't know.
I'll just do what I like and see where that takes me.
- What would it mean to you if you fooled Penn and Teller?
- I'm already happy to be here.
And I think what's most important is that, like,
I hope I impressed them, and they enjoyed it.
So--I don't know. I--that would be crazy.
- All right, Amanda, let's see
if your very inventive card magic fooled Penn and Teller.
- Okay. - Boys.
- Amanda... - Yeah.
- Boy, have you got a future in magic.
Probably a future in anything you want.
- Thank you. - You are so good.
Now, you--you created this routine?
- Yes. Yeah.
- You created it? - Mm-hmm.
- The plot of it? - The plot of it, yeah.
- And how you did it?
- Yeah. - And you're 16?
- Yeah. - Damn!
That is amazing. Really good.
And, you know, many magicians that come on this show--
they can't come up with one ending.
You came up with four. - Yes.
- The four endings to this routine.
And after every, one Teller and I relaxed.
We went, "Okay."
And then there was another ending
and they all built.
- Thank you. - They all built really nice.
It's just a beautiful, beautiful routine in every way,
but just because it's really creative...
- Okay. - And you do it really well,
and just because you're only 16.
and just because it's a wonderful plot
does not mean we give you a trophy.
- [inaudible].
- We don't give you a trophy for being 16.
You don't get a trophy
for coming up with a great plot and a great idea.
You get a trophy for fooling us, which you did.
- [gasps]
- Okay.
- You fooled them! - That's awesome!
- That last--that last thing!
- We have a Fooler!
Congratulations!
- That's awesome. Thank you so much.
- Stay in school, though. Amanda Nepo!
[cheers and applause]
- And just like that, another Fooler heads
out into the world.
Will another join them? Stick around and find out.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"
home of the world's greatest magicians,
like this next act.
- Hi, I'm Shoot Ogawa. I'm from Japan.
The most important thing magic has taught me is
how to be a better person. I was a nerd in school,
and I thought magic would make me popular.
But when my trick was done, people would just walk away.
Then I realized that it wasn't about me.
It's about the audience and their experience.
Of course, good magic is very important,
but it doesn't matter if the audience isn't happy.
I learned magic in a very unusual way.
Instead of studying just tricks,
I studied how people feel happy and comfortable.
It's still the focus of my magic today.
Tonight, I'm performing a trick
I have been working on for 19 years.
I'm constantly changing it
to give the audience a better experience.
When Penn and Teller get fooled,
they act like they are upset about it,
but I think they are actually happy
because magicians love to be fooled by good magic.
So tonight, I hope I can make them happy.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Joined by our very own Teller,
here is Tokyo magic man Shoot Ogawa!
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
You can't imagine. I'm very happy to be here.
I want to be here for a long time.
And I love magic.
And I'm very happy to show you something here tonight.
I want to use my sleight of hand,
and also, I'll use a few objects.
But also, I definitely need the magic of your imagination.
It's very important for all of us.
So--but I want to help you to imagine things.
So I'll use a very strange object.
This is a top of a purse without a purse.
So you can imagine any color, any shape, any size you want.
It can be a black square purse or a rounded red purse,
or even it can be like a green purse, like, a larger one.
So it's, like, a freedom, right?
So I want to show you, for camera,
but also show you for here. Like, it's very simple.
I use my hands, and I use a purse.
Open my purse, like, that way.
So you can imagine a coin from here.
Just--it's very simple.
And you feel like, "Wow, it's so real." Isn't it?
- Uh-huh. - Yeah?
So I'm going to put the coin in my pocket.
But some people will say, "Oh, it's in your palm.
Oh, that's no good." So you can see the coin.
But if I put the coin in my purse, to be honest,
I can't vanish--make it vanish. The coin exists here, right?
So I just make you believe that it's invisible
because it's invisible purse.
It's very soft and simple and interesting.
But it exists here. Just right here. Like this way.
It's very-- looks like, right?
So I love this kind of magic
because, you know, at the beginning,
we are trying to accept what happened,
but we are not sure. Little by little,
your brain starts to understand what is the rule,
and your eyes start to lie to you.
You kind of--generally, you know what happened,
but your eyes lie to you.
So, watch, when it put the coin in my purse,
you feel like it's a--you know, invisible purse.
You feel like I don't move so quick.
Very slow. Invisible.
Visible. Do you feel that?
So you know, but you feel like you don't know.
If I want, I can do this 20 more minutes like this.
You know, I can do forever, forever.
But, you know, it's really hard because,
you know, the imagination is very fragile.
So when I do this kind of stuff, sometimes, you know,
people cannot believe what they see.
So which means, like, you know,
you want to feel a little bit more reality.
That's why, like, I need your help.
Sometimes people think it's, like, a camera trick,
because, like, you know, you are seeing close,
but Penn's seeing from far away.
People are watching through the camera.
Of course, people can see. Sometimes you feel like
it's a kind of a camera trick, right?
all: Oh!
- So now you can use your right hand,
and could you take this coin for me?
Just pinch the coin. Yeah, there we go.
No, I'm not talking about this one.
Actually, I'm talking about this.
So you feel like you're seeing this one.
So--so now you can see the coin and purse, everything.
And, you know, the whole magic is for you
and for me and for everyone.
But hopefully, we enjoyed this magic together.
So thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
- Shoot Ogawa!
- Thank you very much. - Nice to meet you.
It's a pleasure.
- So--Teller looked totally amazed.
You made him look like a little kid again.
- Yes, I hope so. I tried to do my best.
- Yeah.
- It was a very stressful situation, so...
- Because it was Teller? - Yeah.
He--like--I--you know--I--yeah, he is the best of the best,
so, you know, it's almost impossible
to make them feel like, "We have no idea."
But also, for them, it's almost impossible
to tell every single detail.
- So you've said that you started in magic
to make you popular. Did it work?
- Nah. - What?
- It didn't work. - Give me some phone numbers.
I'm going to call some people.
You should be very popular.
- I am not popular.
I'm a nerd, still a nerd, and still a geek.
- Yeah, but that's what makes you great.
- Well, I don't know.
People feel comfortable if someone sees some weakness.
And then magic is so powerful.
I want to keep it balanced with my personality.
- Shoot, we loved your sleight of hand.
Let's see if Penn and Teller will hand you a trophy.
- Yeah. - Ah, Shoot, Shoot, Shoot.
I got so much good to say.
I just don't know where to start.
You come out, and you explained exactly what it is.
You say, "It's a purse, a coin, and sleight of hand,"
and that's precisely what it is,
and the best sleight of hand of anybody in the world right now.
- Wow. - It is just breathtaking.
And I think everybody knows that.
But I want to talk about something that--
that maybe not everybody thinks about.
And that is, I think you're one of the best talkers in magic.
Your patter is just gorgeous.
Everybody tries to talk about illusion and the gift
and how you're giving that, where the imagination is,
and everybody else that says it,
it comes out trite and obvious
and always rubs me the wrong way.
And when you speak of it, it is so much part of your heart
and your soul that it feels like poetry.
And Teller came back to his seat,
with tears in his eyes,
feeling like royalty to be that close.
The way you had us in the palm of your hand,
and we know sleight of hand.
And yet you have no tells.
You have nothing that gives it away.
I can say, with Teller on top of you
and me staring my nose buried in the monitor,
not a false move.
Everything, everything just perfect.
And the guts to bring Teller
up there to be right on top of you.
I think when people picture sleight of hand,
when people picture magic, that's the platonic ideal
of what a magic routine should be.
And people at home saw,
absolutely, without a doubt, real magic.
And even though all of that, I think, you know, Shoot,
that we know how those moves are done.
We've just never seen them done that well.
I don't think you fooled us,
but you killed us dead, you know?
- Aww! - Thank you.
- So do they know how you did your tricks?
- Yeah, they know exactly what I did.
- Aw! - So good, Shoot.
- Well, thank you so much for coming here.
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
- Shoot Ogawa! [cheers and applause]
We've got a wealth of wonder on the way when "Fool Us"
returns.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
- Welcome back.
When we say we find the world's best magicians,
we mean it.
Look where we found this one.
- Before magic, I was lost.
I was studying to be an engineer,
but engineering didn't excite me.
Then I found my passion by accident.
I was in Milan with nothing to do.
In a corner out of the way,
I saw a magician performing tricks.
That seemed like something to learn
and something to become.
Two years later, I was on the stage.
I've been on stage ever since.
My girlfriend, Giulia, is a performer too.
I want our act to be seen by more people,
to grow bigger and bigger so that Giulia and I
can be together on stage like we are in life.
This is why I came on "Fool Us."
I'm doing it for her.
My magic tonight uses a machine I built myself,
so I'm still an engineer.
Will Penn and Teller be amazed?
I don't know.
It's hard to fool them with a device.
But if I do fool them with my own design tonight,
it will be a miracle for me and Giulia.
[cheers and applause]
- We had to go all the way out to Italy
to find this here fine duo.
Ale Bellotto and Giulia Musso!
♪ ♪
audience: Whoa!
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Ale Bellotto and Giulia Musso!
How are you guys?
- We're very, very excited. - Aw!
That was a beautiful trick in a beautiful place.
Did you guys design it yourselves?
- Yes. Me and my dad
designed and built this illusion.
- It's so cool.
Where did you come up with the inspiration for this trick?
- He wanted to do a classic trick,
but not in a classic way.
So he, maybe, thought about the...
- The woman in half. - The woman in half.
And so he decided to cut himself.
- All right. - That's it.
- Well, I think you guys make a very dynamic duo.
both: Thank you.
- Do you plan to perform together a lot?
- You gave us a huge opportunity.
So... - [inaudible]
- We really hope so.
- All right. Well, let's see
if your half-man trick
can earn you a full "Fool Us" trophy.
- Ale, Giulia. Boy, the costumes are great,
and the setting is great. You know, all these box tricks
that people do--they never really take them seriously.
You know, they always just say, "We're pushing this box out."
And you put this little story in
so that it actually becomes a healing,
which they never are.
They never have a beginning and an end and a change like that.
And that was really smart, and you looked great doing it.
And it's just absolutely beautiful.
To give a little bit of history,
I'm sure you know this,
but all of these moving bodies around tricks
that are so wonderful
kind of all go back to Robert Harbin
and the Zig Zag Girl.
They all go back to that basic principle
that he pretty much worked on his whole life,
which is the principle that we think you're using here.
And you also have a little bit of a disadvantage
because this essential trick is being used
in a show that we wrote that's now in England
called "Magic Goes Wrong."
We use this as one of the opening illusions,
though I'll tell you, we use it more like Harbin did
and less like a whole story
and a healing, the way you've done it,
which makes it so nice and so rich
and just--it's beautiful. You did a great job with it,
but I don't think you fooled us.
- Thank you. - Is that right?
Do they know how you did your trick?
- Yeah, yeah. They know, they know.
- Yeah. I really think so, but we wanted to try anyway.
- Yes. - Effect looks beautiful,
and thank you so much
for bringing that to our show. We appreciate it.
- Yeah. It was amazing. Thank you so much.
Ale Bellotto and Giulia Musso!
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
- Penn and Teller will take on more magicians
and then finish the show
by performing one of their own amazing tricks.
So stick around.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
One Fooler has already walked off with a trophy.
Perhaps this next magician will too.
- Growing up, I was always the class clown.
I just had too much energy.
And that's exactly who I am today.
I love to entertain people
by mixing magic and comedy together.
I get my inspiration from kind of unusual places
like the grocery store and antique shops.
And that's how I invent my own magic.
So it always has an unexpected twist.
I just like doing things differently.
In fact, the more stupid my friends think an idea is,
the more I want to create it.
At 18 years old, I spent two weeks
living in a straitjacket to set a world record.
I had to enlist the help of a best friend
to help me eat, drink, sleep, and--well, the other stuff.
Last year, during the pandemic,
was really tough.
I wasn't able to be on a stage,
in front of a crowd,
doing the one thing that I love.
I promised myself that 2021 would be my year.
The big part of that was being on "Fool Us."
I've always admired the way Penn and Teller
seamlessly blend magic and comedy together.
I've looked up to that my entire life.
I've always been called a fool for my crazy ideas,
but if I fool Penn and Teller, who's the fool now?
♪ ♪
- Make way for the comedy magic of Mark Clearview.
- Yeah!
[laughter]
- Whoo! Yeah!
- My grandfather was a great magician.
We did this one trick together involving an egg
that would fool everyone.
And today, I actually have the honor of sharing
the stage again with him.
So would you please join me in welcoming my grandfather!
♪ ♪
Sorry, he was born in 1929,
so he's going to need a little bit of help getting up here.
Yes. My grandfather.
♪ ♪
One of the traits my grandfather instilled in me
was the inability to hold down a job.
It's been emulated by many magicians since.
And I was so fascinated with this, as a child,
that I used to collect all of his business cards,
all from different professions. And I was wondering if, Alyson,
you would join me on stage to look through a couple.
Alyson Hannigan!
♪ ♪
Hey, Alyson. - Hi.
- Can you just hug this corner right here?
- Sure.
- All the cards are for different professions.
- Okay. - So we have pharmacist.
He used to call himself "The Pill-lusionist."
He mixed up a lot of people's medications.
Many a lawsuit.
Which is what led him to become a lawyer
because he already had the lying part down.
- Yeah.
- A close-up mortician. - Ooh.
- People were absolutely dying to see him.
♪ ♪
"It's All About You, Incorporated."
That's when he was a therapist specializing
in narcissistic personality disorder.
He actually had a client who went on to be president.
- Wow. - Yeah, believe it or not.
♪ ♪
And an accountant,
which ironically, is the job that bankrupt him.
So all sorts of different cards here.
I'm going to riffle my thumb down.
Could you just say, "Stop," for me somewhere, Alyson?
- Stop. - Right there.
Ooh, good choice. The dentist card.
At this point, you might be wondering to yourself,
"How was your grandfather able to be so successful
in so many different professions?"
- Yeah. - He wasn't.
He was a con artist. Let's continue.
Alyson, would you mind signing your name
on the back of that card for me?
♪ ♪
Nice and big.
- Oh, this is a terrible signature.
- And maybe a smiley face, if you don't mind?
- Yeah, sure. - Thank you.
- I only felt this was fitting because my grandfather
was a huge fan of yours in the later half of his life.
- Aw, nice. - You might be thinking
if he was here, he'd be appreciative also.
In reality, he'd probably yell at you
for ruining a perfectly good business card.
- Oh.
- He was a cheap man, a scary guy.
Now we have Alyson's dentist business card
with her signature across the back.
But not for long. Because I'm about to make it
vanish the way my grandfather would make a card vanish.
Watch.
♪ ♪
It's--he was also a pyromaniac,
which is what led him to become a volunteer firefighter.
Okay, watch as the card slowly, slowly begins to vanish.
"Slowly" being the operative word here.
There was a lot in there that would have fooled you,
just so you know. Okay, watch as the card
vanishes, vanishes, vanishes, vanishes, vanishes,
but that's not the cool part, because then my grandfather
would wave his hands through the smoke.
And as if he was gathering all the particles
of that card back together, like a phoenix from the ashes,
the card would reappear inside of the egg.
Oh, geez!
Anyway, the card that's still vanishing
would reappear inside of the egg.
♪ ♪
The--the ashes of the--the ashes of the card
would reappear inside of the egg,
which is actually more impressive
because the card is just one thing,
and that's thousands.
- Amazing.
- Unless... - Oh, no.
♪ ♪
- Alyson, would you mind putting these on?
It's about to get weird. - Oh, about?
You should have told me that five minutes ago.
- This is a sealed urn, hasn't been opened
since the day he went inside.
- Oh. - Magic wand.
Abracadabra.
- Thank you.
- And, inside of my grandfather,
I think you'll see one business card.
- Oh, granddad. - I'm just going to unfold it.
Alyson, is this
my grandfather's dentist business card?
- Mm-hmm. - It is, which is pretty cool,
but even cooler if it has Alyson's signature across...
all: Whoa!
- The back. Thank you very much.
I've been Mark Clearview my whole life.
Thank you!
- Mark Clearview!
Wow! - Yeah.
- So how do you like being on the "Fool Us" stage?
- I can hardly imagine this is really happening.
- Aww! - Is it happening?
- It is. - Okay.
- And you did very well.
- Thank you. - Yes.
- Penn and Teller have been
my favorite magicians
since I was six years old.
I remember watching them. The way they integrate magic
and comedy together is inspiring, so...
- So have you learned anything from watching Penn and Teller
that you use in your performances?
- To me, I think this was, kind of,
inspired in a way by Penn and Teller.
There's a little bit of morbid humor included in it,
and I don't shy away from that
because of what I've seen these two do for so long.
- Well, you're a natural at it. - Thank you.
I have a lot of my grandfather on me, I'm just realizing...
- Yeah. - So that's--
- Did your grandfather get to see you perform?
- Yes, my grandfather saw me perform many times,
which was really special to be able to share that with him.
And this is an homage to him
even though he's right there on the stage with me.
- All right. Well, let's see
if you get a "Fool Us" trophy
to keep next to Grandpa's new urn.
- You didn't have to do anything after that entrance.
- Thank you.
- That entrance was just the greatest.
Really great.
- Thank you so much. - I mean, a really good fall.
Just the perfect props
that we wanted to see fall on the floor.
It was just fabulous. It was so good.
What a nice style and really, really funny and casual.
And you lit our floor on fire, which we will bill you for.
- Happy to.
- And even though you were doing business cards,
you were doing a card trick and some of those moves,
but I want to tell you most about your grandfather.
He obviously had a big-- a big effect on you.
You were forged in his image. You really did.
You were put under that pressure, and you came out.
He would be so proud of you. So proud of you.
But as good as you were, you did not dupe us.
We were not fooled. We do not think.
Did we sneak some stuff in there?
- I think they pretty much caught me.
- Did they? - I think they know exactly.
- Did they know how you and your granddad did the trick?
- Yes, they did. It was my grandfather, really,
who didn't fool you, I just want to say.
- Well, thank you too.
You certainly entertained us all.
- Thank you. - All right. Mark Clearview!
- Take care.
[cheers and applause]
- If you're waiting for Penn and Teller,
your wait is almost over.
They'll perform tonight's finale right after this.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
- To close up tonight's show, Penn and Teller
are going to have a little fun with an old friend.
Joining us from New York City, Emmy-winning comedian Judy Gold
and our dapper duo, Penn and Teller.
- [with feedback echo] You know, a lot of magicians
do magic on Zoom,
and magic on Zoom is very different
than magic in a theater. We're going to do some magic
on Zoom for our old buddy Judy Gold.
And you'll see what Judy's seeing exactly
in a box up there, but then we'll also
let you see the whole room we're doing it in.
You'll understand in a moment.
But first, we want to say hi to Judy.
Hey, Judy, how are you doing?
- Hey, Penn! You look fabulous!
- Thank you, Judy. We have a little thing for you.
I'm going to promise you it's all live.
There's no camera tricks, no nothing.
What you're seeing is exactly what the camera's seeing.
- Okay.
- Now, the magic words for this are going to be,
"Happy birthday, Judy." - Okay.
- See, Judy, I've got a perfectly empty hat here.
An empty party hat.
Help me to say the magic words,
"Happy birthday, Judy!"
And we've got candy! Look at that, Judy! Candy!
There's candy for your birthday!
A lot of candy! Happy birthday, Judy!
And there's more candy! Look at that!
And this is not-- these are full-sized stuff.
Now we say the magic words... - Wow!
- "Happy birthday, Judy!"
And we've got confetti, Judy!
Look at that! There's confetti!
- Wow! - I tell you.
And this is all live, Judy,
all completely live.
Exactly what you're seeing on screen
is what's happening here.
Now I've got another question for you, Judy.
Judy, do you like balloon animals?
- I--you know, I enjoy them, Penn.
- Judy, you don't have to be that nice to me.
Everybody hates balloon animals, especially you.
I know that.
- All right, I hate them. I hate them.
- Yes, everybody hates them. But the reason you hate them
is they're so loud and noisy and squeaky.
- Squeaky.
- It's like fingernails on chalkboard.
- Yep, yep.
- Like your voice, Judy, it's horrible.
So, Judy, if you could make balloon animals silently,
they'd be amazing. So, Judy,
I want you to pick any color balloon here you want, Judy.
Pick a color.
- I'm going to go with yellow.
- Yellow.
We're going to make you a yellow balloon animal.
Now, listen, it'll be completely silent, Judy.
Just this yellow balloon will turn into a balloon animal.
Now, you picked yellow, Judy.
Do you want to change your mind of the color?
- No, no.
- 'Cause this is amazing Zoom magic,
you could have changed your mind.
Now, Judy, what animal would you like?
- I'm going to go elephant.
- An elephant.
You would like a yellow elephant, Judy?
- Elephant. - Okay.
Now, listen, it will be totally silent.
No screeching. No horrible sounds.
[balloon pops]
[laughs] Um... - Except for that.
- Well, no, that was--that was
just a technical--I think it's called a pop.
It was a technical pop, just a glitch in the feed.
But the balloon animal will be totally silent.
It'll be a totally-- - Okay.
- Listen, nothing.
I'm going to take this silent yellow balloon,
and I'm going to put it in my pocket right here.
And then, Judy... - Okay.
- I am going to say the magic words,
"Happy birthday, Judy!" And blow up my sleeve.
And there we have, Judy, a balloon animal.
It's an elephant. Look at it, Judy.
See all of that's an elephant. This is amazing.
This is on Zoom. - That is amazing!
- There's no way you could do that!
See it's an elephant. See the trunk?
- Yep, I see the trunk.
- It's prehensile.
You can grab things with that trunk.
Now, Judy, for our final trick, we have a prediction.
Now, we didn't set this up. We didn't tell you in advance.
- No. - We want the people at home
to be blown away by this Zoom magic.
These are tricks that can only be done on Zoom.
I have your cake box, Judy. There is a cake box.
In that cake box... - Oh, wow.
- Is a prediction of your favorite kind of cake.
Your favorite birthday.
What's your favorite flavor of cake, Judy?
- Chocolate. - Chocolate!
Beautiful, Judy. No way I could have known that.
No way. Chocolate. And what kind of frosting
would you like on your chocolate cake, Judy?
- Chocolate. - Chocolate.
So you live in Provincetown,
and you came up with chocolate on chocolate.
No fancy colors. No sprinkles. Just basic--
- No. You know, I'm basic. I'm very basic...
- Very basic chocolate on chocolate.
- And I love chocolate. Chocolate.
- Do you want to change your mind?
- No. - Okay.
Chocolate on chocolate. Now, Judy,
I want you to cast your mind back to grade school, Judy.
Not that long ago. - Ah.
[crying]
- In grade school, Judy, what was your favorite year?
How old were you in your favorite year in grade school?
- You know, I hated most of it, Penn.
- Mm-hmm.
- But I'm going to go with--
I'm going to go with fourth grade. Fourth grade.
- Fourth grade. How old were you
in fourth grade?
- Nine. - Nine.
Kind of a rough few year-- okay, nine.
So you were nine years old in fourth grade,
and that was in-- was that in New York or Jersey?
- In New Jersey. - In New Jersey.
We didn't check with you ahead of time.
- No.
- We didn't say put chocolate on chocolate.
We didn't say nine years old was your favorite year.
We said nothing like that. We didn't set that up.
- Nothing. - And yet this box,
which has been tied up and sealed
since the beginning of this bit,
we have a prediction in here, Judy,
that is going to blow your mind.
This is magic that can only be done on Zoom, Judy,
because we have here a box.
It's been in your plain sight this whole time, Judy.
- Yeah.
- And in this box is a prediction that I made
before we even called you.
In the--[bleep]. Okay, we better hurry up.
Okay, in this box, Judy, there is--ugh!
- Be careful.
- Judy, in this box, there is a cake here, Judy.
And on this cake, as you can see, Judy, only on Zoom--
- Wow! - Only on Zoom. Mmm.
There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 candles, Judy.
And, as you can see, four of them are lit,
and five are not, Judy.
And I'll tell you why, Judy.
Because we knew that the first five years of your first nine
were filled with despair, Judy. - Right.
- So we thought that would be disrespectful to light those.
And now I'll blow them out.
And there you can see there's chocolate frosting.
But you might say, "What's inside that cake?"
- Right. - There's no way on Zoom, live,
with no camera tricks,
they could do chocolate cake in there as well,
but there you go, Judy. - Wow!
- The smell of chocolate--chocolate cake
with chocolate frosting, nine candles...
- Oh! - I reach out.
And look at this, Judy. It vanishes just like that.
And we're going to end with the magic words,
"Happy birthday, Judy!" - Happy birthday me!
- Thanks, Judy. - Thank you.
- Thanks for letting us do some Zoom magic for you.
Mmm. I hope you'll see you
next time on the same Zoom call.
- Mmm, so good. [cheers and applause]
- It's time to blow out the candles on tonight's show.
Goodbye from Las Vegas, where the party never stops.
[cheers and applause]
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