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My first guests tonight, refer to themselves
as rip off artists.
Illusion. Illusion.
(laughing)
Their show Penn and Teller's Sin City spectacular
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Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Penn and Teller.
Hello Conan.
How ya doing?
Nice to have you.
Now you know, you did that whole thing
on magician or illusionists and I started out
actually as a juggler.
You were a juggler.
Yeah, when people think of juggling,
they think of this kind of toss juggling.
Okay
There are all sorts of other kinds of juggling.
I want to demonstrate something for you,
if you get a little bit out of the way.
Those are sharp, by the way.
Yes, well, you'll say that's part of the Western arts.
There's a thing called knife throwing.
And it's part of the whole, you know, oops,
that was knife bouncing right there,
but it's part of the whole, you know,
whip cracking and rope spinning.
That was cool. That looked great.
They look really great.
But the problem is
when you do knife throwing like this,
it gets a little bit dull. So over the ages,
the carnies have found ways to make it more interesting.
And one of the ways what's called the human target
and it's best to have someone
that people at home can relate to.
Like, for instance you,
(crowd laughter)
so why don't you step right over here.
Okay.
Against the target.
You're not the usual model we use,
but you can,
I kind of look like that a little.
A little. A little
Oh wait, do I have to strike her exact?
I don't think you can.
I don't think we can strike for exact, but just,
just try to get it.
This feels good.
Just look straight ahead.
I'm going to count to 3, 1, 2, 3.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You're really throwing those at me?
Yeah. Yeah. On the imaginary four
I will let go of the, all you got to do
is stay still Conan.
This is mostly me.
Okay. Wait a minute.
I missed that second one with that button.
Let's just talk.
Stay still. Probably best to shut up.
Probably best to be shut up.
Many viewers say that.
Let's just talk for a second.
Those look really sharp.
They told me don't come to rehearsal or anything.
And now I understand why.
No. See what you did though, was you were talking,
you were trying to keep the show moving.
That's very important.
But as soon as you saw me pull my hand back,
you did this, which I'm not saying was unattractive.
I'm just saying that when you did that,
you pulled your elbow down.
Right. So I gotta stay still.
The problem was I was aiming for here
(thud sound)
and I know the way you are.
You'd be saying, oh, Penn stuck a knife in my arm.
You wouldn't be saying Penn did a perfect throw.
And I moved my arm into the path. So you wouldn't,
let's just do this. This will put the blindfold on.
Then you'll be much less apt to flinch.
But wait, I saw you throw,
I saw you throw three of these and one of them,
it just was really crappy. Yeah.
I know but I got warmed up now.
Did anyone else notice that?
Please, please don't move Conan.
I'm serious now please Conan.
Don't move and one.
Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Okay.
Shh. Quiet stupid. 1, 2, 3.
(thud)
Nice.
Take a look, take a look.
Take your blindfold off Conan. We're fine.
[Penn] That was very good. That was very good.
Pull the, pull the blindfold down Conan.
You got another one to do.
Pull the, there you go. And get that arm up.
Here again.
Yeah, right here again.
I'm not going to end with the same side,
but if you're in that position,
that's what I'm used to Conan.
Does it hurt you if I wet myself?
[Penn] Just don't move your right arm,
especially now Conan. One, two, three.
(thudding sound)
Okay. All right, all right
[Penn] Take a look there Conan. Take a look.
Nicely done. Nicely done.
It scared me a little bit.
This scared me a little bit pony.
Because you put this arm out a little bit. Right?
As I was throwing.
That scared you huh?
Scared me, my heart went pitter patter.
That must have been sheer terror for you.
It's terror. Pull down the blindfold.
Why do we have to do more? Isn't two great?
Comedies and threes Conan.
Comedy. Yeah.
Pull it down. pull it down. There we go.
And where am I?
I gotta get my female position.
Don't worry that much about that.
We're going near the head this time.
So the arms are much less crucial now,
but do stay still. I'm not kidding Conan.
Now remember Irish heads are wider
than most other heads.
[Penn] One. Two.
Okay. Wait a minute. Okay. Go.
One. Two. Three.
(thud sound)
Okay.
[Penn] Take a look Conan. Take a look.
I think, I think you're a natural born target.
Nicely done. Natural born target. Beautifully done.
Now Conan, you watch the show?
Watch my own show? No.
Because I don't watch either.
I've got cable. I don't have to.
(Penn laughing)
I don't watch either.
I don't want you to leave.
Cause you knew we were doing something fishy
and I don't want you to act
like we're playing you for a fool.
I don't know how that works.
I'm guessing you weren't really throwing it.
Right. I wasn't really throwing.
I want to show you the,
the way this works in the gag. If you'll see behind here,
Conan, there are electromagnets, powerful.
Turn them off. Would you please Robbie?
I'm going to throw a knife up against it.
Let it go, Robbie.
It just sticks right there.
And all I gotta do. Turn it on Robbie.
Is get it in the general. Let it go.
Get in the general vicinity and that electromagnet
will pull it right into place.
So really anyone can throw knives.
Which, as a matter of fact, Conan.
You want to throw?
You sure it works? Really?
Yeah. Yeah. Step over here in the lawn.
Come on.
I don't know.
Put your left your right-handed?
Yeah. Put your left foot on the line.
Left foot on the line.
Put your right foot back a little bit.
Okay.
Take the knife here Conan.
Right.
All you got to do.
All right.
No, no from the handle.
Oh, from the handle, but isn't it cooler
to throw it like that, like got you dude.
That's if you're a lot closer,
that's like shooting the gun sideways. You look cool,
but you miss.
So right back.
I hope I don't miss.
No, you won't miss it.
It's all done. And all you going do now.
Now I'm not counting for you.
I'm counting for Robbie and it's very important. 1, 2, 3,
and throw on the imaginary four. Okay.
And the electro magnets.
Will just suck it right in. Okay here we go.
You all set Conan?
Ah
We're going to do it.
Yeah all right. Okay. You're sure.
[Penn] Positive.
Can I really throw it hard or?
[Penn] Not too hard. Just hard enough for it to get here.
You don't want to over over.
Okay. Okay let's go.
All right. All right. All right.
And ready and
I got to go wide if you, I mean I'm not sure.
You're not supposed to have control of it
it's supposed to be the magnet. Okay.
[Conan] Okay. Okay.
So don't try to do anything. Just ready.
[Conan] Just go baby go.
[Penn] One. Two. Conan. Conan.
What did I do? That looked very cool
what I was doing.
When you first started,
when I first started counting,
you're looking in the general area.
Right.
Soon as I hit two your attention right to my mouth
I have.
And what's going to do,
is you going to put some torque on it?
Right.
Okay and that's going to throw off the magnet.
So I want you to, I want to put
the blindfold on you again, Conan.
You don't need the blind.
Yeah, then you can throw much better.
Do people want to see me throw a knife at you
with a blindfold?
Oh it's much more impressive. Don't you think?
We're going to do it for real this time Conan.
No kidding around.
Just throw it nice and even, right on four.
Actually you're holding it like a, like a pencil.
Just really grip it down, like a baseball,
like a very sharp metal baseball.
We're really going to go this time Conan.
And ready and one, two, three.
[Conan] All right.
Throw it. Throw it. Throw it.
Good. Okay, good. Good. Take a look Conan.
Nicely done Conan, nicely done.
You're good Conan. Pull the blindfold down.
Put them right there.
I am really good at this.
You're very good at it, Conan.
I kick ass.
And the same thing,
but just time don't bock,
really do throw on four.
Makes it easier.
Okay. I just don't want. Okay on four.
[Penn] It's fine, I trust you here.
One, two, three, throw.
Jeez, whoa.
I guess another half inch higher.
You would have really got me.
I don't know. I guess it was the.
Glad I wasn't standing there.
That was the last place you were looking,
I guess, Conan.
Let me do, let me do one more.
Do the math at home people.
Pull that down and let's do,
Let's do one more for you here. You got, you got you.
Okay, here we go.
You sure?
I'm positive.
Now really, really let it rip this time.
Let it rip this time.
[Conan] On four.
And one, two, three, throw.
Oh God. You bastard. Oh God.
Natural born knife thrower.
And don't watch the show.
Wait let me see that.
And Andy, you got nothing to say to him.
You shut up. Okay.
As far as he knows, he was throwing knives.
Can I say one thing? I was worried
for like a millisecond that maybe I hurt you
until I saw this.
You guys got to get some better fake blood.
It's cold in the studio.
We don't want to mess up the vest for you here.
It's like a blood yamaka here all right.
Spend more money on that guys.
I don't know what happened there.
I'll watch the tape later on and thank you very much.
It's always fun. Penn and Teller everybody.
Tre Williams coming up. We'll be right back.