Penn & Teller - Off the Deep End
Penn & Teller's how to play in traffic
Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food
Penn & Teller - Bullshit - The Complete Fourth Season
Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour
Penn & Teller - Bullshit - The Complete Third Season
Teller at Penn and Teller.com
Teller DOES speak!!! Quotes
From
Wikipedia
Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller on February 14, 1948) is an American
magician, best known as the smaller, silent half of the comedy magic duo
known as Penn & Teller. He legally changed his name to Teller and
possesses one of the few United States passports issued in a single name.
Teller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Central High
School and Amherst College and taught Latin at Lawrence High School in
Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Teller is an accomplished sleight of hand artist and is considered an
expert on the history of magic. He is also a talented painter. He is an
atheist and a skeptic.
Teller is the author of When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!, a biography/memoir
of his father. He has also collaborated with Penn Jillette on three books
on tricks and magic.
Teller does not speak while performing although there are occasional exceptions,
usually when the audience is not aware of it (He did the voice of "Mofo
the psychic gorilla" in their early Broadway show with the help of
a radio mike cupped in his hand). Teller's trademark silence originated
during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college
fraternity parties. He found that if he maintained silence throughout
his act, spectators stopped heckling him and focused more on his performance.
Teller began performing with friend Weir Chrisemer as The Ottmar Scheckt
Society for the Preservation of Weird and Disgusting Music. Teller met
Penn Jillette in 1975, where they joined a three-person act called Asparagus
Valley Cultural Society, which played in San Francisco. In 1981 they began
performing exclusively together as Penn & Teller, a "partnership"
that continues to this day. (more)
Penn and Teller
Penn & Teller are an illusionist and comedy duo from the United States. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller (generally) does not speak while performing, although his voice can be heard as the narrator throughout their performance. They specialize in gory tricks, exposures of fakers and of some magic tricks, and clever pranks, and have become associated with Las Vegas, atheism, scientific skepticism, and libertarianism. They call themselves “a couple of eccentric guys who have learned how to do a few cool things.” (more)
Penn and Teller Videos
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! War on Drugs
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Recycling
Penn
and Teller: Bullshit!
Environmental Hysteria
Penn
and Teller: Bullshit!
The Business of Love
Articles on Teller
Penn
and Teller Hate Juggling... As Much As Magic
by Dave Jones
World
Juggling Day honors cheap, timeless form of entertainment
By Kristen Peterson
Columnist Joe Delaney: Penn & Teller lead a magical roundup of stars
Tricks
and Treats
These are not your parents' magicians
by Mark Hughes
Duo
cut from different cloth
Penn & Teller find an audience despite straying from the PC-mold
by Mike Weatherford
Writings by Teller
Rush
to Judgment
There may be more—and less—behind the high-profile news account
of a boy's setting himself on fire
The
Warhol Trap
In 1989 when we were working on creating a trap routine to accompany Penn's
profound and lyrical "King of Animal Traps" monologue, I bought
a bunch of traps and sat in my garage for a long time, just staring at
traps and trying to think of how to plot out Penn's idea of an act in
which things would be snatched barehanded from open traps. The result
was the sandwich, the trapeze, etc.
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