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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It was also doing... Magic is a dangerous thing, because magic is like Louie Louie, you know?

Uh...

you play, you know, one, four, five, in that rhythm... Yeah.

...you get a reaction from people.

Doesn't matter what you do with it.

Um, and with magic, if you do something that's impossible, you get a reaction from the audience.

Okay.

So the temptation is to stay there, you know?

As beautiful as the Trogs were, uh, I realize I just changed from Louie Louie, but Kingsmen, but Trogs... Sure.

As good as they were and as wonderful as they were, you do want to build on that.

So once you've got a trick that fools people, then you want to say something with it.

Why are you doing this?

Why are you there?

And so we were fighting against that.

I also have always disliked

Um, satire and irony.

Um, uh, I don't like sketches.

Uh, I don't like takeoffs.

Um, I don't like parodies.

Uh, there are people who've done them wonderfully that I enjoy, but that's different, you know?

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