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Fool Us’ Penn and Teller Reflect on Their Career: ‘Everything Else Has Been Kind of a Surprise to Us’


Penn and Teller exclusively reveal to Closer that some of the twists and turns of their career in magic have been ‘kind of a surprise to us.’

The stars of The CW’s long-running hit TV series, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, also remain one of Las Vegas’ most popular headlining resident acts. In the 50 years since the pair began working together as buskers on the streets of Philadelphia, they’ve risen to heights that Harry Houdini couldn’t dream of. “We are very rare in show business, in that we thought we’d achieved all our goals by 1977,” Penn Jillette, 70, exclusively reveals to Closer of the moment when they realized they no longer needed day jobs.

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