- My name is Penn Jillette.
I am more than half by size of the comedy magic team
Penn and Teller
and as you'll see, beside me, there is no Teller
so I am going to recreate him with a cookie.
(upbeat music)
We got a show on the CW called Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
Greatest Magicians in the world come on
and they do a trick once, we haven't seen it before,
we try to figure out how it's done.
If we can figure it out, they lose.
If we can't figure it out,
they come and perform on the show with us.
I'm gonna pick this cookie here,
not because it looks anything like Teller to start with,
but just because this is the kinda cookie I like.
See I'm on a very strict diet.
I am a hard core vegan, no animal products
but also, only whole plants,
but when I'm working, which this is considered working,
I eat whatever I want.
So this is my chance to have a cookie
for the first time in probably a year.
So as far as making it look like Teller,
I don't care but I think this cookie mostly needs
is for me to eat a caramel.
I lost over a hundred pounds four years ago,
which is kinda magic because if you go more than two years,
it's considered successful.
Two weeks I went on a mono diet
which means you just eat the same thing
which helps one psychologically
to get over the habits of eating
and all I ate was potatoes.
Why potatoes?
Because they're funny.
After two weeks of just eating potatoes,
a lot of your habituation to salt and fat
and advertising, same things, go away.
I use to be able to eat like a bag of these
and now it doesn't taste very good.
Start out with blue.
Teller likes blue very much.
Now because I'm not very good at representational,
I'm going to do symbolic.
I'm gonna look at this peace sign
while I'm having a tootsie roll.
Oh that's wicked better than the caramel.
Jimmy's!
Notice none of that went on the cookie.
I'm just decorating the table.
We have all the greatest magicians in the world
on our show but what we did this season,
we turned the tables and we stood on stage
and were judged by someone else, David Copperfield.
It was terrible.
I looked over at Teller,
first time in 20 years I've seen this,
Teller's trembling like this.
It'd be like this really.
His hand's trying to pick up a deck of cards
and his hand's like this
and I had to keep asking for water.
We were terrified getting a taste of our own medicine.
We have a video game that's actually outside
of the realm of video games.
So when you first come over to someone's house
and they've just gotten the VR set up,
what they want to do a show you how that works,
which means you've got your friend in the house,
you've got your VR set up,
and you put it on their head,
they can't see, they can't hear.
So this game is all set up as a toolbox
for you to steel dignity and in some cases, money,
from people you pretend to love.
The inspiration for this comes from the fact
we've done books and video tapes and DVDs in the past
as a tool where you work outside of it.
So people think they're just doing the VR experience
but actually in the world,
the friend is monkeying with them.
We call the VR Penn and Teller VR
Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary and Underhanded
which abbreviates to F. U., U., U., and U.
M&Ms, I used to love these, let's see how these taste.
Better than the caramel, not as good as the tootsie roll.
We do a masterclass where we teach people how to do magic
and we were thrown out of the magic castle
for giving away magic secrets.
This is considered kinda sort of okay
because we're actually teaching.
Magicians don't really have any sort of code.
That's a fiction.
And not giving away secrets is a pretty good idea
in magic but once in a while it's a fun idea to do.
The masterclass we not only teach people how to do tricks,
and how to get the basics of magic to perform magic,
but also people who might not ever want to perform magic
get a chance to learn a little bit about
the philosophy of magic which is very heavily involved
in empathy and the theory of lying.
Seeing yourself really from another person's point of view
which is very important in literature
and at heart and to be a good human being.
Let's see how the brittle honey does.
That's good.
Here's a caramel, I just wanna show you how this is done.
Take this caramel and just place it in this hand like this.
It stays there.
That's not magic at all.
If you wanted to learn magic, put it in your hand,
place it there like this and it vanishes.
Now people thing it's in this hand but it isn't.
I dropped it on the floor.
Let's put some eyes on here.
Looks like a lot like, exactly like Teller.
And oh we got to do some sprinkles.
Oh that's good.
Good, that's good.
Oh yeah, now that looks just like Teller.
Now we need a little bit of pumpkin spice.
Ah it's beautiful and let's do the recapitulation
of the peace sign over the top.
Gold, oh that's nice.
I'd gotta tell ya, I have missed my calling,
cause this is wicked good.
Oh look at that.
♪ La da dee, la da da, la da dee, la da da ♪
Take that Teller, you rat bastard.
Rub your- oh look at that.
Ladies and Gentlemen I present for you, Teller.
And while I'm eating this tootsie roll,
keep in mind Penn and Teller Fool Us
on CW Eight o'clock on Monday,
and then shown again on Wednesday at some time.
Check out our masterclass, masterclass.com learn magic
and also our new VR game, Penn & Teller VR,
Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary and Underhanded.
F. U., U., U. and U.
And Teller, F. U.
Beautiful, beautiful.