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Penn Jillette (b. March 5, 1955, in Greenfield, Massachussets) is an American comedian, illusionist, juggler and writer known for his work in the magician team Penn & Teller.

  • pennjillette: I've got an article in the LA Times today about turning 55 years old. http://tinyurl.com/y94g3g2 They changed "PIece of ass" to "hunk."

    08:08:50 pm on March 12, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: OK GO have done more than made the greatest music videos of all time. They've added skill and taken art back from editors. And no irony!

    05:28:58 am on March 12, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: With a little luck next week, a new big opener - "CellFish." we're also going to put back in "Cuffed to a Creep" -- never done at the Rio.

    04:28:43 am on March 11, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: How could we ever know for sure if Sylvia Browne were really psychic. A couple of college students in NY just checked! tinyurl.com/yz7fq8o

    05:48:44 am on March 7, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Todd and Teller lead the crowd in Jersey singing Happy Birthday to me last night. Went to Carnegie Deli for late dinner and now back in LV.

    12:17:51 am on March 7, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Todd and Teller lead the crowd in Jersey singing Happy Birthday to me last night. Went to Carnegie Deli for later diner and now back in LV.

    12:17:10 am on March 7, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm in NYC. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Tonight we're be doing a P&TQ&A at William Patterson University in Jersey. 35 years of BS!

    07:24:39 am on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Off to NYC. Going to Zarela.com restaurant tonight to remember Jamie Gillis with Zarela and Ratso. Then a P&TQ&A in Jersey tomorrow.

    05:12:28 pm on March 4, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Honoring Siegfried & Roy. Criss Angel, Lance Burton, P&T all speechified. S&R invented an art form. Wow. Roy is so wonderfully bugnutty.

    01:10:33 am on March 4, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: One of the nightmares of being the father of a daughter happened. Mox and I are watching "Yellow Submarine" & Paul is her favorite Beatle.

    04:07:43 am on March 3, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Jamie Gillis, porn actor, friend, & just the greatest guy died in NYC. I will miss him. Man, he was great, friendly, and so fucking smart.

    05:51:41 am on February 21, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: A bunch of P&T people and the amazing Dean Cameron have done a disgusting gross short horror movie, "The Growth" -http://tinyurl.com/yk2hjdt

    04:04:03 am on February 21, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: The glamor of showbiz. I have an bad toddler-type ear infection. Shooting pus and pieces of brain out my ear. Where is MTV reality now?

    09:22:14 pm on February 18, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: MTV "Cribs" is done. I showed them around for 2 hours and then they shot beauty shots for another 6 hours. It'll look cool to live here.

    07:49:48 pm on February 16, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: EZ and the gang have been working on the Slammer for weeks now getting it just right. Monday, I'm shooting MTV "Cribs" to show how we live.

    08:25:58 am on February 15, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I've been playing upright bebop bassbefore the show with Jonesy for 8 years. I'm better than I ever thought I'd be, but still not good.

    08:34:08 pm on February 13, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: The DIY show, "Desperate Landscapes" is in redoing our front yard. Water features, mazes, playsets. It's DIY with 100 other people helping

    08:35:26 pm on February 12, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I just finished taping Red Eye, man, it's a pretty funny show. I enjoy doing it. It'll be on tonight - Fox News - Midnight PST, 3AM EST.

    04:16:09 am on February 11, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I wrote a thing for CNN.com about Obama's annual trashing of Las Vegas, Nevada. If you feel like reading it -- http://tinyurl.com/ykljrb6

    06:52:13 pm on February 8, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I wrote a thing for CNN.com about Obam's annual trashing of Las Vegas, Nevada. If you feel like reading it -- http://tinyurl.com/ykljrb6

    06:41:43 pm on February 8, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: SuperBowl Sunday, so we're not stupid enough to do a show, but I don't know anything about football, so I'll hang with my family.

    08:30:41 pm on February 7, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm back in Vegas doing the show at the Penn & Teller Theater but, thought the magic of television, I'll be on the Wanda Sykes show tonight!

    05:47:18 am on February 7, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: A guy with a K-9 bomb-detection dog t-shirt is sitting across from me at the airport, complaining that I haven't updated recently enough.

    09:02:50 pm on February 6, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: A guy with a K-9 attack dog t-shirt is sitting across from me at the airport, complaining that I haven't updated recently enough. Okay?

    08:57:32 pm on February 6, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm in LA in the rain. I"m off to tape the Wanda Sykes show. Talking about Taylor Swift, Stevie, military gays, superglue penis, and Vegas

    03:14:41 am on February 6, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm on a laptop in the dining room. My home office is being fixed up so when Cribs comes to shoot how we live, they won't see how we live.

    06:14:21 am on February 1, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: We're working on new P&T:Bullshits! This will be a great season -- we finished the first pass on "Cheerleaders" and now "Self-Esteem." yay

    10:40:45 pm on January 30, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights- Jefferson

    09:12:28 pm on January 28, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Glenn Beck asked me to write "The Atheist Ten Commandments." He's not the boss of me, but I decided to do it anyway. It's pretty fun.

    11:56:22 pm on January 21, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: The Rio's been around 20 years! They gotta P&T deal - buy one ticket at Reg Price - Get one for $20 (mdweek Jan 17-Feb 4, 2010) @riovegas

    03:26:45 am on January 19, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Darryl Hall was asked about being a duo. His answer included, " . . We’re both Penn and we’re both Teller." Do I have to be Hall AND Oats?

    09:20:31 am on January 16, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Gary Karr, the greatest classical bass player who ever lived, gave me my first real lesson on bass with a bow. I must find time to practice

    04:06:29 am on January 14, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: Trey Parker came to our show last night. The Mormon musical they're doing for Broadway with the "Ave Q" guys sounds cools. I can't wait.

    06:36:20 pm on January 13, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: We did a runner on BS of "Fuck you, Frank" to Frank Luntz. We happened to sit together on a plane, and now we had dinner. I like him.

    07:32:03 pm on January 11, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm listening to an MP3 of Sinatra singing "The Lady is a Champ" for Maureen when she married Ringo. No such thing as a rare record anymore

    06:08:16 am on January 8, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: http://twitpic.com/wj0vz - Headphones and a monitor while Teller calls "action." Producing our Vermeer movie in San Antonio, TX. Nutty.

    07:20:39 pm on January 3, 2010 |

     

  • pennjillette: I'm in a lobby in a Palm Springs hotel, typing and waiting for the show tonight. We're no the road again, you know, for 3 days in one state

    11:15:24 pm on November 5, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: Meyer Kessler or Carl Ballantine or Ballantine the Great died. Another hero I didn't talk to enough. So much more we could have learned.

    03:43:27 am on November 4, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: We're off to Johnny's house to work with Johnny and Close over corned beef on a nutty trick with a cell phone, a fish, and a jackhammer.

    09:48:32 pm on November 3, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: Last night was "With the Beatles," first mono, then some discussion and then stereo. Listening to music with friends and talking about it.

    05:49:35 pm on November 2, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: I decorated a guitar for Opportunity Village charity auction. I painted "This Machine Kills Fascists," "Ignore Alien Orders," and "Noise!"

    01:04:12 am on November 2, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: Halloween at P&T had a loud, rowdy audience without enough slutty outfits. Loud & rowdy is at least supposed to get you lots of slutty.

    08:18:57 pm on November 1, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: Oh dear.An adult male can't dress as a ghost for Halloween if "dress like a ghost" means wearing a white sheet.@PennSays http://bit.ly/vlN6l

    08:45:18 pm on October 31, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: Last night we listened to "Please Please Me" mono, and then stereo and talked a lot about the Beatles. Listening to records with friends!

    10:32:17 pm on October 30, 2009 |

     

  • pennjillette: I've heard Teller talk enough to last 3 lifetimes. If you wanna, he'll be on CBS Sunday Morning in an interview about magic and the brain.

    02:22:53 am on October 30, 2009 |

     
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