[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host,
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
You might think bringing
to try and fool Penn and Teller
in their own theater
is like leading a lamb
But there's nothing I love
on a magician's face
when they pull the wool
So let's bring out
Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
Remember, if a magician fools
they win a slot in their show,
a "Fool Us" trophy,
and international
Take a look at tonight's
- A good magician
that no one else
That's been my philosophy
My first job when I was 13
I took a bus four hours
just so I can learn
I wanna be the best
I've even broken
but I'm still working towards
being the world's
Tonight, I wanna fool
I've never worked so hard
There's been sleepless nights
It's been an obsession
I've done the work,
[cheers and applause]
- Joined by two random
please welcome the fitz-magic
- Thank you.
For the past five years,
my team and I have spent
and countless hours
that allows me
tap into the cloud,
analyze your predictive
and then "read your minds."
I know the thought of this
So I've actually
this bleeding-edge
to look like a card trick.
This is an ordinary
I'd buy them in bulk.
I'm up to a pack a day.
I'm trying to cut back.
But I will pull
No funny business.
The tab is taped.
Break that open.
We'll get rid of the little
and the jokers,
Okay. I'm gonna give 'em
[soft music]
And Alyson,
go ahead and take the cards.
Go through the deck.
It could be a favorite card.
It could be
I mean, who likes the eight
- [gasps]
pull it out of the deck,
in case we need it
All right. In fact,
and if you would
between your hands
Just so I can't see
And Penn, I'm gonna have you
and remove any card you like,
It could be your favorite card,
The choice is yours.
I'll look over here at Alyson.
And then hand the deck
And Teller, I'm guessing
Go ahead and remove
All right.
And I will take the cards back,
and now the fun can begin.
Some assembly required.
♪ ♪
Let's see here.
[playful music]
This is the
Serious Thought Uploading
or as my wife
the S.T.U.P.I.D. hat.
I'm gonna put it on
in case it's a bumpy ride.
♪ ♪
All right, now, this hat--
This hat is packed full
It's got machine learning,
a 2.4 gigahertz
It's got buttons, switches,
Not only that,
light emitting diodes.
In the right conditions,
you can see this thing
[electronic warbling]
Ooh!
- I know, right?
Now, what I want you to do
In a moment, I'm gonna try
and then tell you exactly
Are you ready?
Alyson, I want you to think
Just send it to me.
I'm getting
I don't know what it is.
Go ahead and send me the color
Let's see. All right.
Now, Alyson, I want you
Think of your suit.
All right, gentlemen,
Concentrate.
Your playing card suits.
All right.
Now, Alyson,
Perfect.
And then gentlemen,
All right. Now, in a moment,
I'm going to reveal the cards.
Once I reveal the cards,
letting everybody here know
that I've actually
Are you ready for this?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
I'm getting the ace of diamonds
and the six of diamonds.
If I've got your card,
just show it to the audience
[applause]
Okay. That's two cards.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna need my antenna.
[whirring]
- Aww. [laughs]
- All right, Penn.
- I am.
That's not bad, though.
Let's go for all three.
♪ ♪
Send me the color of your card.
I'm getting a red card,
I want you really
Just send it to me.
On the count of three.
[electricity zapping]
♪ ♪
It's clearly a red card.
The eight of hearts.
Go ahead and show everybody.
The eight of hearts,
I'm John Fitzsimmons.
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
- John Fitzsimmons!
- Well, thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
- That was so good.
That was incredible.
- I've literally spent
developing that trick
- Well, you definitely
for the silliest hat
- Well, thank you very much.
- So are you
- I'm a stay-at-home dad
and then I get to do magic
- Aww.
- And do fun adventures
Currently, I'm training
straitjacket escape
while riding a unicycle.
- Is there a lot
- So far,
- I just--I'm picturing
and, like, the neighbors
"Oh, there he goes again."
Every day. I'm on it--
- Do your kids
- Absolutely. Yeah.
In fact, I still use
in my kid show to this day,
and yeah, it's--
- Well, it's not a used
But it gets a laugh every time.
- Okay, good. Okay, John.
I think they've
to reverse engineer this trick.
Don't you?
[both laughing]
- Oh, John,
I think that you kind of
while you were doing it.
I mean, you said
You lied about one thing.
It's not stupid technology.
It's wicked smart technology.
You had that stupid helmet
and all that stuff going on
"Oh, this helmet
The helmet is actually doing
You actually were telling us
And, you know, you always try
to think outside the box,
the really creative people
And you were doing that,
in terms of this is what
The work you do,
wicked complicated,
and wicked tied to that helmet
with all its switches
So I think we have something.
I don't know.
- All right.
John, do they know
- I think they do.
These guys are geniuses.
- Thank you so much
- Well, thank you.
- This is truly a dream
- Oh, you were amazing.
Thank you, John Fitzsimmons.
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Stick around.
More "Fool Us" coming up
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"
where playing cards
Let's see if a "Fool Us" trophy
for our next magician.
- When my son Matthew
he was diagnosed
and that opens up your eyes
Ten years later,
but I still try
to help raise money
of type 1 diabetes
- Oh, my God!
- People ask me
a family of four
Well, they don't
They say,
Do you have a real job?"
- Oh, my God.
- And I do have a real job.
I'm in show business.
- Come on!
- Magic is the show,
and marketing is my business.
Magic and marketing
In both cases,
to try to get people
Tonight, I'm gonna be using
a very powerful
[bell dings]
Let's see if it works
[cheers and applause]
- Joined by Penn and Teller,
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
You know, as a magician,
I'm constantly looking
what people say
And recently,
you guessed it--
- [laughs]
- Now, hopefully
that name rings a bell.
[laughter]
If you believe the saying
that you can't teach
then Ivan Pavlov
was one of the greatest
because he discovered that you
just by ringing a bell.
That's right.
Every time he rang a bell...
[bell rings]
So tonight,
that same scientific technique
Penn and Teller,
But hopefully
- Hmm.
- Let me explain.
As part of my journey
[bell rings]
I decided to study
all of the foolers...
From the past and see
if there was a common
that successfully fooled...
[bell rings]
and things
[bell rings]
I even went back and watched
all of the past episodes
[bell rings]
and made a list
that Penn had used most often
a successful a fooler.
[bell rings]
come in all different shapes
Good, creative, confident,
strong, powerful, cool,
I even put the word
- Mm.
- So, Penn, Teller, Alyson,
would please indulge me
Just pick the word
all successful foolers...
[bell rings]
Penn, what do you think?
- Powerful.
Okay. Teller.
- [laughs]
- Clever.
- Can I point
- You can point
Do you want to just do
- Uh, I'll do creative.
Okay.
Yes.
Perfect.
Let me just actually
so that nobody
or gets confused
[laughter]
Oh, a little David Corsaro
doesn't hurt either.
But see, there's actually
that you created.
There's a message hidden
Let me spell it out for you.
Literally.
Your word was powerful.
P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L.
Your word was clever.
C-L-E-V-E-R.
And your word was?
- Creative.
C-R-E-A-T-I-V-E.
Now, I should point out,
because this is not
This deck of cards
of everybody who's ever
We've got Paul Gertner,
Chris Capehart, Helen Coghlan,
Helen Coghlan again,
well, she's in here a lot.
[laughter]
But after doing all that
we have all the people who
And after we use
the attributes
we ended up on this person.
Not this one
but this one.
And if all of my
[bell rings]
hopefully we can add my name,
to the list.
- [gasps] Oh, my...
- Thank you very much, guys.
- Thank you
- David Corsaro, everyone!
[cheers and applause]
Wow. That was so good.
- Thank you very much.
- What does it mean to you
- I wanted to just come
and also something
to all the past foolers.
And have you really watched
- I did.
every single thing
and kept a tally sheet
If you ever want some
I might have those as well, I--
- No, I certainly don't.
- I think
the harder it is
because they are so smart
"so they moved the planet
and the history and the..."
And then they're like,
- Yeah. Planet moving
I was gonna consider
but I would actually
that if the method
is extraordinarily clever,
then you almost have
to maybe perhaps
- All right, David, let's see
earned you a trophy.
- Hey, David.
- Nice trick.
- I like Pavlovian ideas.
You've always got our
about Helen Coghlan
In another two seasons,
that whole trick
- Just her name. Yeah.
Really, really good.
We did not see you doing any--
any card moves at all.
We were burning you.
Absolutely burning you,
any seconds or bottoms
So we had to go down
which is that list of words
that so nicely spells
We couldn't help but notice
have the--the same--
And we think maybe
Like, I picked a longer word,
then Teller
Then you were right there
and that maybe if Teller
you would've had
to one of the shorter words.
But I think it all went
We all came out
We didn't have time to work out
the number of letters
but we think that the trick
but rather in
of the words there.
We--do you want more?
Do you think that we've got
- Um...
- David, does he know
- He doesn't know
- [squeals]
- It's not in the words at all.
- Don't bust me
It's not in
- [gasps]
Ring--start ringing the bell.
- Yay!
[cheers and applause]
- Fooler! Yay!
- Thank you.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
- David Corsaro!
[cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller
We'll give them a time out
Come back for more "Fool Us."
- [speaking indistinctly]
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back
Look at who we roped
[soft upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Joining us from Spain,
here's magic duo
[cheers and applause]
[somber dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Keep me here ♪
♪ My heart is near ♪
♪ My love has gone away ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Tell me true ♪
♪ My heart is new ♪
♪ My love has gone away ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It's okay ♪
♪ I know someday
♪ It's okay ♪
[audience exclaiming]
♪ I know someday
[applause]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[audience exclaiming]
- ♪ You say love
♪ But I don't know the end ♪
♪ Or if the future is bright ♪
♪ And now you say that I'm
[audience exclaiming]
♪ And something about how
♪ ♪
♪ Won't you be brave
♪ We can sail away
♪ Fresh, clean, cold air
♪ There is no danger ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Why don't we live
♪ I've got a vision
♪ Tall trees in Georgia ♪
♪ And hometown California
♪ World with no borders ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
♪ Why don't we live
♪ I've got a vision
♪ Tall trees in Georgia ♪
♪ And hometown California
♪ World with no borders ♪
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
♪ You say love
♪ But I don't know the end ♪
♪ Or if the future is bright ♪
♪ And now you say that I'm
♪ And something about how
♪ ♪
♪ Won't you be brave
♪ We can sail away
♪ Fresh, clean, cold air
♪ There is no danger ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When we're together ♪
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[applause]
[audience exclaims]
[cheers and applause]
- Diego and Elena!
Oh, my goodness.
That was so beautiful.
Penn and Teller
on something quite similar.
I was just
"Well, they're just ready
Like, I would buy tickets
- Nice. [laughs]
- This seems like such
You must have so much trust
- Yes, a lot.
One time, I was taking Diego,
[exhales sharply]
But he was low.
- Oh, goodness.
It was a beautiful performance.
Let's see if you take home
- Ah, Diego and Elena,
You know, Teller said,
"If they do a quick change
"this will be the greatest
I've ever seen."
And there you did
It was so good.
You know, there's so much other
that you might forget how much
there is in there.
The original--
all of that stuff
and carefully choreographed
You know, we first
One of the things we considered
was when someone came on,
we would have to duplicate
I just wanna tell you,
you won hands down.
[laughter]
'Cause we would not
Also, quick change acts
often are not that sexy.
Not true for you.
You just do a wonderful
with real magic in it,
really astonishing,
and really, really sexy
Every moment of that
Just that last change
is just so beautiful
And we could not do
But boy, we're glad you did,
but we don't think
but what a great act.
And thank you so much
- So do Penn and Teller know
- [speaks indistinctly]
- Yes. I think they know.
Well, save me tickets
to the opening of your show
- Please. Yes.
- Diego and Elena!
[cheers and applause]
Don't look now.
More "Fool Us"
Stay close.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
We've already seen
the rare and elusive fooler
but I'm greedy
Let's bring out
- My dad is a car dealer,
and my brother
So I guess you could say
I got hooked early as a kid.
And when I discovered
well, I wanted
I'm from Tupelo, Mississippi,
And it's a great place
but not exactly
[cow mooing]
Sports
So if you wanna be popular,
Wanna be not so popular?
Do magic.
Let's just say I grew up
over there
But there's one thing
about being a magician
in a land
If you need a magician,
I've got a reputation as being
And look at me going up
Well, Penn, Teller,
[cheers and applause]
- From Tupelo, Mississippi,
[cheers and applause]
- Ever since
I wanted to be a superhero.
Well, the closest I got
[laughter]
After all, what makes
Magic powers.
Penn, before the show,
a $100 bill
Did you do that?
- Alyson, please bring me
[cheers and applause]
Now, before you hand it to me,
'cause I want everyone to know
that there's no
and that my superpowers
[laughter]
Now, every superhero
so I'd like you all
[laughter]
- To prove to you
he has shredded abs.
[whirring]
[laughter]
Of course,
must also have
So, Alyson, would you please
- Sure.
- Obviously, you need
- Oh, perfect.
- Now, in addition to Penn's
I also have three fake bills.
And to prove they're
they have the word fake
Alyson, what I'd like you to do
is to take these fake bills
and put 'em in the envelopes
- Okay, I'm gonna have
- That's fine.
- Thank you.
- And I will do the same thing
[suspenseful music]
So we'll have three bills
and one bill signed by Penn.
- All right, two.
- Now, Alyson, what I'd like
and mix 'em up behind your back
so that neither of us know
which envelope has Penn's bill.
- Behind my back.
- Easier said than done.
- Why am I doing all this?
Well, that's because
unless I save someone,
Penn's $100 bill.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Alyson, do you see any special
♪ ♪
- No.
and look identical
- Yeah.
- Well, that's
Ordinary vision can't
from the fake ones.
To do that, you need only
And to make this
I'm gonna put on
[dramatic music]
Now, my X-ray vision
but to make this
I'll see through
Alyson, what I'd like you to do
one in each hand,
Let me know
- Okay. I've done it.
- All right.
[lively theme music]
Give me the one
- [laughs]
[laughter]
And our Shredder
Alyson, what I'd like you to do
is put one envelope
♪ ♪
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- My Bentley vision says
♪ ♪
And another bites the dust.
Now, with only two
it's time to use another
Mind control.
Give me the last two envelopes.
One in each hand.
♪ ♪
I've now taken over
- Oh, dear.
- You will pick one envelope.
The one I'm
and it will go into
♪ ♪
Which envelope?
- That one.
♪ ♪
And away it goes.
Now, if our mind meld worked,
then Penn's bill
we have saved the day,
and the Earth will continue
Take the bill, show it to Penn.
♪ ♪
Penn, is that your signature?
- Yes.
- Well, then I'm Bentley Burns,
and my work here is done.
[cheers and applause]
- Bentley Burns!
Well, that was fun.
- Thank you.
- I am always a little kid,
- Yeah.
- I was kind of a class clown.
messing around,
Always performing.
- Did you get in trouble
- If my mom's watching?
No, but in reality sometimes,
- Your teachers
- Yes. I remember,
I would kind of prank people
and that's where I kind of
[laughter]
- All right, Bentley, let's see
if you can take home
- I would love to.
- Nice robot.
It's very, very good.
- I like using a robot in this.
That's a really good thing.
- Thank you.
- Oh, wow. Thank you.
Very nice.
And, you know,
one of the biggest secrets
which I hope
and that is that magicians
- Oh, that's true. Yes.
- You have your X-ray vision,
but we have a superpower too.
You had one moment in there
that tipped off
- Uh-oh.
- Got that tingling
a pretty good idea
but your version of kind
or different
also the same plot,
very nice way putting
And we liked it very much,
a thing or two of the things
that you might have
that we have a pretty
- I think my spidey sense
too, that they know exactly.
So thank you
- Nicely done, Bentley.
- Thank you, Bentley Burns!
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Don't go anywhere.
Penn and Teller
and they've got something
We'll be right back.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
This next trick
of Penn and Teller's
and tonight it's the finale
Here are
Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- Everything that Teller and I
comes from a love that we share
of the American sideshow,
[soft music]
When I was a child,
you could see ten different
And I loved them all,
but I especially loved
The fire eater,
And my friends would go
My friends were different.
They did the whole show with
and all through this
my friends would be talking,
and they'd
"Oh, I know
He just coats his mouth
They'd try to convince me
of something
and go suck on a soldering iron
and it wasn't gonna hurt you.
And it's not just children.
It's also adults.
And it's most often a man
he's trying desperately
and often pathetically
And one of these guys who
to pretend to know everything,
"Oh, don't worry
He's just using cold fire."
[laughter]
Well, all these years
and I turned out
And the ironic thing
is there's no trick,
To everything else we do,
It's lie, cheat,
That is what we do.
But not fire eating.
And there's no such thing
If you still believe
you think I might be using it,
I'll stick it in your eye.
Get empirical real fast.
Teller's coming out here
camping fuel container,
that he's dipping
The torches are cotton rope
screwed into a wooden handle.
It's not the cotton that burns.
It's the fuel that burns.
And the way fire eating works
You get a lot of moisture
and all that moisture
from any given part
before that part will burn.
So you learn how to handle
Then you gotta try
Now, if you get a lot
and that's at least where
you can rub your lips
and pull that vapor off.
The vapor's still burning,
but if you breathe in
the audience can't see it.
So you get
Then you just wait
and then just let it flow
If you wanna put the fire out,
And it's the move that
Now, you're not actually
but I guess they figure
didn't sound that butch.
When you feel your mouth
you close your lips tightly.
That cuts out most of
Now, when I
I got burned
and I still
But the burns you get
are for the most part
They're the kind of burns
when you eat a pizza too fast,
the cheese will snag,
And I'm not talking
There's no such thing.
It just hurts like holy hell,
but it's not dangerous.
The dangerous things
that laypeople
And that is every time
no matter how carefully
you swallow about a teaspoon
And that stuff is poisonous.
That's why they go
to write "harmful or fatal
right there on the can.
And the effect is
Now, I say a certain degree.
I'm a big guy,
but carnival workers
they'll do
In as little
that stuff will build up
and they'll get sick enough
they have to take time off
and do another line of work
while that liver regenerates,
Now, we take all this time
to explain all of this to you
because we think
to think of someone
slowly on stage
And after all, we're here
[laughter]
We really tell you this
We don't want you to be
We want you to be thinking
So sit back, relax.
I'm gonna burn myself.
[dramatic percussive music]
♪ ♪
No, no, no, no,
Not yet, creeps.
That was just the roof
I'd still like
And I wanna tell you,
by surprise and up-tightened
this next thing will probably
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- [groaning]
Okay.
- Ugh.
Give it up for Penn and Teller
and all of tonight's
We'll see you next time.
Goodnight from Las Vegas.
[cheers and applause]