Penn Jillette

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845 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Penn Jillette’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Club Random with Bill Maher · Penn Jillette | Club Random Classics with Bill Maher · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

If I'm doing a trick for you and the audience is watching, if I do a trick that will blow you away,

And you're amazed.

It may be a different trick than what the audience thinks it is.

You're making a...

a mistake that is pretty important.

While you were going to college, while you were doing all the things you were doing, learning to be funny, learning to write jokes, learning to deliver jokes, other people were working on other things.

You know, I will bump into doctors.

What you're asking me to do, Bill, is you're asking me to tell you in two and a half minutes how to go out and do an hour stand-up show.

If you can control the question, you don't have to worry about the answer.

If it's Rob Schminckis?

If it's that specific?

They're making you ask a different question, which is how they got in that head.

And they've already lost the battle.

What I'm saying is, maybe...

Maybe the only time this has ever happened, happened when you saw it with Barbra Streisand.

I'm just saying I've seen that same effect.

But you say it is, and you're not giving me anything.

The most important three words in science, I don't know.

And that is what makes science.

Before science starts, I don't know is never said.

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