Penn & Teller: Fool Us - David Parr Fools Penn & Teller

welcome back it takes all kinds to fool Penn and Teller and this next act is truly one-of-a-kind take a look when I was growing up I was a very solitary kid and I could spend hours and hours in my room reading human beings our story consuming machines I tend to look at each piece of magic as a story I write the end first that's just an easy way for me to structure my work the ideal scenario is at the end of this piece of magic Penn & Teller look at each other and they go mmm you got it you fooled us that's my ideal the devious David Carr hi I am David Parr Ellison I will need your help will you join me sure I have a seat for you here oh why thank you milady Allison we are going to play a little game okay and the name of this game is follow the leader okay so watch carefully wait for the Bell and then act accordingly okay are you ready yes here we go [Music] [Music] Frank [Music] [Music] [Applause] do you think we pull vote I don't know come on cuz can I share the trophy if we did cuz like that was kind of me it was all Ian this has a cool backstory yeah what is that about a year ago I was hit by a car outside of the airport in Chicago and the impact snapped my leg in two places this is not a cool story so far well had to happen yet okay so I was out of commission for three months I couldn't walk I couldn't drive so to maintain my sanity while I was stuck in the house for a month on end I decided to focus all my energy on developing one new piece of magic that I could then perform in the show when I recovered and you just experienced the result of that three months of effort oh I don't really want to break my leg to come up with something that cool but what a great way to turn a bad situation into something perfectly and it's totally ruined the showbiz phrase break a leg I cannot take it to anyone you know no you just say good luck at that one yeah ready to find out what they think gentlemen I think we can figure this out I think we're almost there all we'd like you to do is break both our legs leave us in the hospital for a year that we believe we can get it happily we don't think there's a Dex which we don't think there's marked cards we don't think there's double backers we don't think there's double facers we don't think Jack we have no idea I mean no idea [Applause] yeah not the strongest [Applause] drink up our sleeves and it's a doozy our very own Penn & Teller roughneck cigarette [Applause]

Channel: David Parr

Views: 493,178

Rating: 4.8660955 out of 5

Keywords: David Parr, Penn & Teller, magic, magician, magicians, Fool Us, Penn & Teller Fool Us, illusion, card trick

Id: em7zoY7mMg8

Length: 6min 42sec (402 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/TheModernNinja]

Yep! Had me going for a while. It's very clever.