Penn and Teller on "The View"

[Brown]

Penn and Teller will be guests on "The View" on ABC TV (USA) on 31 October 2006.

Last year, the boys made an appearance on the Halloween "View" show, in which the highlight of the program was seeing Penn's daughter Moxie dressed up like a lobster. The appearance also featured Teller screaming as he purportedly stabbed his hand on what the audience was led to believe might be a broken glass bottle.

[Brown]

Man, I gotta put in my application for the million bucks. I'm starting to think that I am psychic.

Here is what I wrote (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=54649) on April Fools Day, as a joke:According to a spokesman for Teller, Teller became disillusioned with Jillette when he learned that Jillette was planning to phase Teller out of the act.

"Penn saw Teller's role in the act as, number one, to look small and cute; number two, to say nothing during the act; number three, to perform a bunch of self-working magic tricks; and number four, to accept a lower billing in spite of doing all the work," said the source. "Penn felt that his own daughter, Moxie Crimefighter Jillette, could carry out all four functions."
This is basically a description of what occurred on "The View." Penn's kids, Moxie and Zoltan, came dressed in Halloween costumes as Teller and Penn, respectively. That's right, Moxie came as Teller. Not only that, she looked remarkably like Teller.

She was small and cute, like Teller. She said nothing, like Teller. She performed a self-working magic trick, like Teller. And even though she did most of the work, she took no billing (and presumably got no payment, thus performing as a child slave laborer).

(To be fair, Teller performed a simple riffle card force; but otherwise, he sat there looking small and cute, and saying nothing.)

[kittynh]

ohhhh!!! I was at the dentist!

Brown is there a video link to this?

I would love to see this!!!

Ahhhh!!!!!

[Brown]

ohhhh!!! I was at the dentist!

Brown is there a video link to this?

I would love to see this!!!

Ahhhh!!!!!I am unaware of any link. Sorry. I recorded it on my DVR but am not equipped to dub to tape or DVD.

Make no mistake, Moxie was definitely in "cute mode." Penn said that they put Moxie in the Vegas act on Friday night, and she seemed to enjoy doing the trick.

Basically, one of the hosts selected a card "at random" (wink, wink), and the cards were then put in a little see-through "purse" (a container ostensibly used to hold a diaper and other supplies for the kids). Teller actually did "the dirty work," and if you know what to look for, you can easily see how he made the trick work. (Anyone familiar with Richard Osterlind's presentation of "Phantom Artist" would recognize the secret at once.)

With Penn's encouragement, Moxie reluctantly came forward, took the purse and went back to her mom. Then Moxie (again, with Penn's encouragement) pulled a card from the purse, and behold, it was the same as the host's "randomly" selected card. After Penn brought Moxie to the hosts to show the card, Moxie went back to her mom, and (in a display of extreme cuteness) smiled broadly and joined in the audience's applause.

Zoltan made an appearance on the show, too. He slept all the way through it. Penn described him as "the largest baby in the world." Although Penn's description of his eldest male heir had an air of carny puffery about it, Zoltan was nevertheless a really big infant. He seemed almost as big as Moxie (and he had a more pronounced resemblance to Penn).

[kittynh]

aaahhhhhh!!!!!

[Hauteden]

I recorded it as well. I will see if I can extract it from the ReplayTV I know it is possible. I just have never done it successfully.

Hauteden

[Ed Baehr]

Kitty,
I missed it as well but found it on You Tube at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uTc8tVqaMBs
If the link doesn't work, I found it by searching "Penn and Teller View"
See you in January,
Ed Baehr

[kittynh]

Thanks ED!

Moxie does look like Teller! I love the way Moxie just went right up to Teller.

Zolton is another Penn in the making. I also like his, "You can't teach that trick with kindness!"

So cute!

[Hauteden]

Ya'know I should have checked YouTube first for the segment. But I'm still gonna transfer it off the DVR and chalk it up as a learning experience.


Hauteden

[MLynn]

Ugh, I misseed the show due to work - bah! Thanks, Brown, for sharing what happened - it must have been great.

[Ed Baehr]

Ugh, I misseed the show due to work - bah! Thanks, Brown, for sharing what happened - it must have been great.

MLynn, scroll up a couple of entries and see a You Tube link to the show.
Ed Baehr

[kittynh]

Moxie is so CUTE!!!!!

[Brown]

Ugh, I misseed the show due to work - bah! Thanks, Brown, for sharing what happened - it must have been great.Check the YouTube link! I'm glad Ed Baehr was able to direct folks to this material on YouTube (before it gets yanked due to copyright concerns).

On further review of the program, it looked like Zoltan had his eyes open a few times. But he nevertheless reclined where he was, not fussing or crying, or for that matter expressing any interest in what was going on. I've never raised an infant, so I don't know: do some kids sleep this way? In other words, do kids sleep such that they get really mellow and quiet, but their eyes open from time to time?

[HeyLeroy]

What I thought was cool was that they gave away season three of B.S. to the women in the audience. How many of those ladies are gonna be shocked?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

What I thought was cool was that they gave away season three of B.S. to the women in the audience. How many of those ladies are gonna be shocked?

And I find it utterly hilarious that the show is called ******** and that you must "cleanse" it to B.S. for US TV.

And even funnier that when I check the preview of my post I see the software changes ******** into ********. :shocked: :shocked:

Rot 13 to you -- ohyyfuvg

[HeyLeroy]

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/6197454770d2500d5.gif

[Ceritus]

that was great

[kittynh]

I know, I don't know if the women are going to enjoy BS

I was buying copies of "The Aristocrats" for my brothers for Xmas. It has a cute little pug on the cover. Sure it says "one dirty joke" but it give no real CLUE about the contents.

I know what's in the box! My brothers will be fine with it (though I am putting on a note - "wait until the kids are asleep" )

[Brown]

Ugh! For the 2007 show aired on Halloween, there was no Penn, and no Teller. There was no Moxie and no Zoltan.

Instead, the show featured --

Oh, good grief, it's painful to say this --

John Edward, the Biggest Douche in the Universe.

[Mattfn]

Darn computer freezing!

[Mattfn]

Darn computer freezing!

[Mattfn]

Darn computer freezing!

[Mattfn]

Ugh! For the 2007 show aired on Halloween, there was no Penn, and no Teller. There was no Moxie and no Zoltan.

Instead, the show featured --Oh, good grief, it's painful to say this --

John Edward, the Biggest Douche in the Universe.

Adding to the ever-growing evidence The View is sliding downhill.*

*It wasn't quite halfway up to begin with.

[Grayce]

Terrible show, The View...

Always fun to see Penn & Teller though. And even I, who normally don't like children that much, have to say that was pretty cute.