Penn & Teller Fool Us | Couch Escape | Jonathan Burns

meet our first magician hi i'm jonathan burns magician and semi-professional instagram model you may not realize this but i was a gangly weird kid so i developed a sense of humor to make people laugh with me rather than at me and then i realized i could combine comedy with magic [Music] now i live in lancaster pennsylvania which is amish country normally i'd be traveling around the world but lately i've been performing magic for the locals family has always been important to me i spent a lot of time at home with my two young daughters painting nails trying makeup playing dolls i've definitely become the girlie dad my grandfather was a huge supporter of mine he said you're destined to do something unique in life so tonight in honor of my pappy i'm going to try to do something truly unique and hopefully fool pen and teller in the process back again to try to fool pen and teller is jonathan burns when i was a kid every thanksgiving my whole family would gather at my grandparents house for thanksgiving dinner and we wouldn't be like other families and argue over trivial things like uh uh politics or how to carve the cranberry sauce we'd wait till after dinner and we'd fight over the tv remote there were those of us who wanted to watch football and there was me who wanted to watch the annual world's greatest magic special luckily there was a second much smaller tv in my grandparents basement it was kind of like this i was sitting on the couch and watching every move of my favorite magicians people would come down and be like magic's all you know dancing girls and tight pants and cheering audiences isn't that exactly what football is uncle ray tonight i decided i'm going to attempt something that i jumped up while sitting on my mum and pappy's couch and hopes that it will inspire a 12 year old or even a 47 year old magician who sent to their grandparents basement and i'll do that using this the street jacket invented in the late 18th century to cure anxiety and depression luckily it works so well that people no longer suffer from these afflictions i'll also be using this the anhart mainland loveseat sleeper sofa at anhart we don't just like seats we love them retail value 14.99 95. i've also asked two people to help me out this is randy a local las vegas emt and i also need allison hannigan a semi-professional magician's assistant she's helped more magicians than an awkward childhood i'll have 60 seconds to make my escape from these restraints and escape this death trap if i don't get out on time i will run out of air and worst of all this furniture rental will be considered overdue and i will lose my deposit you ready [Music] okay tuck me in [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] uh so do you do tricks out of other things that you find in grandma's garage i do i can fit myself uh through a toilet seat and a tennis racquet okay so i kind of use everyday objects to my advantage yeah so i'm a little afraid to ask but how do you discover that you can fit through a toilet seat uh it's a trip to a like a home improvement store oh okay when no one's looking you go for it and then and it works yeah i can squeeze myself butt first through a picture frame and i learned that at a trip to a craft store i'm 11 by 14. you're welcome america maybe there's some stores you're not allowed back to that's well that's why we got the straight jacket and so were you a contortionist before you were a magician i was i was i was kind of always the bendy kid who would like do crazy things at gym class to gross our girls did you do that thing with the eyelids i had friends who could i was envious i couldn't do that my specialty was armpit farts so as the guy who grossed out girls how'd you finally get married uh as soon as she found me and saw my skills she knew no one else could have me yes that's right she's a special lady yeah i guess so yeah well then you hang on to her i know i would but i'm giving myself a hug okay let's go straight to penn teller and see if they'll hand you a trophy well jonathan come back to our show all the time oh i would love to do such good bits you know there's a double effect here and teller and i had totally different reactions to it teller loved one thing i loved another teller loved the fact that you escaped from a convertible yeah he went nuts over that and the idea of doing a straight jacket escape that doesn't happen just kills me so funny the idea of that is so great you look so great doing it it just looks so brutal and at the same time really really funny and thank you completely original and i don't want to just give you keep giving your runarounds here but the idea you know people are always trying to escape from something that uh no one has seen before and i think you've done that done the impossible wow escaping from something and then not escaping a straight jacket just destroys me kills me and we loved it and think you're really funny and come back all the time and i think i've slipped in a a word or two that uh should have given you an idea that you did not escape from our uh scrutiny yeah you d you yeah you got me on that one but i have a question for you how do you get out of a street jacket well you didn't fool them but it was our first ever escape from the couch thank you jonathan find out who will try and fool penn teller next when fool us returns

Channel: Jonathan Burns

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 15 2021