#THE MAGIC CIRCLE PENN AND TELLER TV#

Over the following years, Penn & Teller quickly enhanced their reputation as the bad boys of magic: in 1987 they appeared as three-card monte scammers in the Run DMC video clip for ‘It’s Tricky’ in 1989 they released their first film ‘Penn & Teller Get Killed’ 1990 saw Penn drive an 18-wheeler over Teller in their NBC TV special ‘ Don’t Try This At Home’ and in 1991 they made a return to Broadway for ‘Penn & Teller Rot In Hell’. For nearly 50 years, Penn & Teller have consistently pushed the boundaries of entertainment, physics and good taste to keep audiences on the edge of their seat.Īlong the way, Penn Jillette and Teller (that is his legal name) have redefined the art of magic and created an overarching legacy that shadows those of Harry Houdini, David Copperfield or Criss Angel.įrom humble beginnings in Philadelphia, Penn & Teller were introduced to each other in 1975 by mutual friend Weir Chrisemer and the trio began performing together as The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society from the late 1970s until 1981, when Weir left.Įxperiencing further success as Penn & Teller on multi-year runs in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the early ‘80s, the duo opened their self-titled Off-Broadway show in 1985, which catapulted them into national notoriety.

“I learned to scuba dive in Cairns, I’ve eaten gelato at Circular Quay and enjoyed Shakespeare at the Opera House, I’ve scouted an underwater TV special near Melbourne, I’ve been bug-eyed at MONA and some of my dearest friends live there so it’s about bloody time we brought our show Down Under, don’t you think? It’s once in a lifetime! See you in winter! What? It’s winter in June?” Jimmy Fallon called them “the greatest performing duo in showbiz” and it’s not hard to see why. Having already postponed the tour twice – once for emergency surgery and the other for a pandemic – Penn & Teller take over venues around the country in June and July to give Australian audiences a live performance of their mind-bending magic.

Legendary magic duo and the undisputed Kings Of Sin City Penn & Teller are finally making their Australian debut.

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