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Penn and Teller


 

Penn and Teller are a two-man magic and comedy team, specializing in gory tricks (in which the mechanisms of the illusions are fully revealed) and clever pranks, who have become associated with Las Vegas, skepticism and libertarianism. They call themselves ?a couple of eccentric guys who have learned how to do a few cool things.? http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/bio.html

Quotations

  • "Is this your card?" (traditionally the three of clubs)
  • "Doing stuff like Van Praagh and Kreskin is like taking a shotgun and going into a mall, and discharging it in people's faces and stealing twenty bucks from each one of them." - Penn
  • "When (Norman Borlaug) won the Nobel Prize in 1970, they said he had saved a billion people. That's BILLION. 'BUH!' That's Carl Sagan's billion with a 'B'. And most of them were of different race from him. Norman is the greatest human being. And you've probably never heard of him." --from Bullshit! #1-11 "Eat This!"
  • Penn: "We wouldn't do anything to this animal that we wouldn't do to ourselves." (he applies a branding iron to Teller's right buttock) Teller: "MotherFUCKER!" #2-1 "P.E.T.A."
  • "Naked people are their own reward." --from Bullshit! #1-6 "Sex, Sex, Sex"
  • "It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal parts of fact, history, and pizza." --from Bullshit! #2-6 "The Bible: Fact or Fiction?"
  • "This is drugs....and these are your civil liberties—AND THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT." (Penn in a steam roller crushes the pan representing drugs and all the eggs with civil liberties written on them) Penn: "Any questions?" --from Bullshit! #2-4 "War on Drugs"
  • "You don't heal a broken heart by pretending it's not broken." --from Bullshit! #1-1 "Talking to the Dead"
  • (in The Simpsons episode Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder)
    Teller: "Will you get off the stage!"
    Homer Simpson: "Hey, I thought you didn't talk."
    Teller: (nervous) "Well, I didn't mean to...it slipped out. Oh, now Penn's gonna beat me."
  • "And then there's this asshole..." --from various episodes of Bullshit!