Magician Penn Jillette uses the power of Twitter to answer common questions about magic. Do magicians ever reveal their secrets? Do Penn and Teller ever mess up an illusion? Is magic actually real? Penn answers all these questions and more!
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that uncle question really made me laugh cuz yes yes you should i learned so many useless skills during covid quarantine and my nephews love them they love when i juggle the most tho lol so funny
But what about fairies?
Penn do you cut women in half in real life is this is real died or not
6:42 I hate when mfers correct someone’s spelling no one’s cares for correct spelling while typenn
10:05 “That’s not magic, it’s nature” this was hilarious lmao
"i dont believe in the rule to not reveal tricks" "im not going to reveal that trick"
No such thing as supernatural????
"Glass" candy made out of sugar
He didn’t misspell “they’re” it was supposed to be their…
I always thought magicians used "sugar glass" for the glass eating act.
Mafiosos deny the mafia. He’s a sorcerer
Magicians don't eat glass they eat sugar that has been turned into breakaway glass.
Lmfao
I think the fact that there is no such thing as magic is what makes their tricks so cool.
The trick to eating glass is that it's actually sugar, like the windows and "glass" bottles that stuntmen and actors constantly break in movies. You can still cut your mouth on it, but no one eats real glass shards.
I have a great deal of respect for this man
He's very right about magicians loving magic way more than regular people. Few things are more boring for adults than magic tricks.
Did nobody catch the "misspelled they're" trick?
I think another good way to play off a failed trick is to channel The Amazing Johnathan. Play it off like a comedy bit. Trick fail, becomes joke instead, much laughing.
"Penny Lane, I hope you sleep now!"
My favorite answer was: "they're"
I love you, Teller. (snickers)
I feel like exposing the “secret” to a magic trick takes away the mystique of the trick, but gives me a new kind of awe for the dedication and ingenuity of the trick. It’s a new kind of magic to me!
Some of the best tricks are the ones where they do a trick and then tell you how they did it so they can surprise you with a different trick. I saw a magician do a bit with making a coke can appear and then he showed that it was a fake can made of foam that he'd had hidden compressed in his hand and said he'd walk us through how he did it, and at the end of the walkthrough he'd done the same thing with a real can.
9:15 😂😂 not me rewatching and still wondering years later where the lil red ball went
“You should not go to an entertainment expecting someone to get hurt” my bad bro I never claimed to be perfect
I like how he talks about the importance of mortality in different aspects. Pretty good for an atheist 😊
3:55 Never lie, I love a person with some sense of moral absolute.
As soon as he said he would never lie and say magic is real, I hit the like button. And my respect for him jumped up immensely. Magic tricks are fun entertainment, and should be praised for their skill. But don’t lie, or believe your own lie, that it’s real.
Nobody talking about his fingernails? One is an off color.
"You should not go to an entertainment and expecting someone to get hurt." You have heard of MMA or Boxing, haven't you?
Somehow, I can still see his poytail.
1:17
I go to NFL and NHL games partly to see people get injured.
Well, that was pretty indicative of how inane most of the people on twitter are. There was only about 3 questions that were intelligent and several that must have been thought up by a dog!
If Harry Anderson were still around, he would've been perfect for this video.
And no one asked about the block of ice trick
I saw a magic show a long time ago as a kid and I thought I had it all figured out but i didn't is love to see one again
magic has a lot to do with the person's brain so I wonder if the more we learn about how our brain works the more advanced we can make magic
Penn looks more like an actual Jim Henson designed muppet with each passing day.
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