Penn Jillette

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2,353 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 14 Jan

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

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And I was a really good juggler at the time.
And I was the youngest person to go and also the last person picked because I wasn't good.
I'm not physically funny.
Me.
No, I hadn't assessed that, but I was gonna find out.
And it was wonderful because I was down there with 40 people who took comedy more seriously than I did.
And we did a lot of acrobatics.
You know, I became in the... It's only a three-month, four-month program.
And I became in really good shape.
I was doing trapeze, I was doing tumbling, I was thinking a lot about comedy.
And I realized during that, that whenever there was a laugh to get,
I would get it verbally, which of course was useless in the circus because when you're playing for 20,000 people in a stadium, I mean, that's the purpose of the makeup.
So I wasn't good.
They wanted to bring me on to do mostly juggling, but I wasn't into that either.
Fondles.
That's a joke from Jay Marshall, who's out of Chicago.
One of my real mentors is from Magic Incorporated, Jay Marshall.
That was his joke.
He was Fondles the Clown.
No, I didn't.
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