Penn & Teller Give a Lesson in Misdirection Using a Vanishing Chicken

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-Ladies and gentlemen, Penn and Teller! Oh, my goodness! [ Cheers and applause ] Nice to see you, buddy. Pleasure to see you. -Thank you again. Welcome back to the show. First of all, I want to congratulate you on -- you guys have the longest-running headlining act in Las Vegas. -In history. -In history. -Not just now. The longest-running headliners in history of Las Vegas. -Congratulations. That's just amazing. -And we just signed for another four years, so until 2022. -At the Rio? -We intend to die in office. [ Laughter ] That's our plan. -Oh, man. I can't believe -- I love that. Now let's talk about the fifth season, "Penn and Teller: Fool Us." Explain the show to the people if they haven't seen the show. It's a good premise. -Greatest magicians in the world. And we're into the fifth season, it really is the world. We get people from all over. They come on, and they do a magic trick that they think can fool us, and if they fool us, they come out and play with us in Vegas at our theater, the conveniently named Penn & Teller Theater. And if they don't, they go away crying. [ Laughter ] -Yeah, exactly, yeah. -This season, we're also bringing back -- which is not thrilling us -- We're bringing back people who fooled us before. Fan favorites to come back on and try to fool us again. -Fool you again. -Yeah. -Okay. Now you always bring a cool thing or do something amazing, some type of illusion or trick, and so you're doing something tonight. I never know what it is. -We didn't let you in on the rehearsal. -No, I never know. All right good. What do I do? -Stand right over there. You watch it right there. -Okay. -You know, there's a word -- misdirection -- that's used by laypeople a lot. It's a magical term. It's a term of art. And the way laypeople use it is wrong. Because laypeople often use it as a synonym for distraction. Like, "Hey! Look over there!" do something sneaky here, and then you look back, and the trick is done. That doesn't fool anyone. -Mm-hmm. -The way we use the word misdirection is kind of a curating of attention, giving the audience a story they can tell themselves that lets them not really know they were distracted. And we're gonna do a trick right now using misdirection. I'm gonna tell you what it is. The trick is The Vanishing Chicken. There's a chicken in there. We're gonna make it disappear. Now, when I say "Give you a story to tell yourself," it's not some jive-ass story like this is Clucky McCluckface, and this is the chicken-coop rocket ship to Mars. No, a real story, which is you know it's a vanishing chicken. I've told you that. -Yes. -You know we're Penn and Teller. You know we do magic tricks. So as soon as I cover up this chicken, you're telling yourself what you're gonna do. You're telling yourself a story. You're making yourself a promise. 'Cause you're promising yourself right now that at no time will you allow your attenti-- [ Cymbals crashing ] [ Laughter ] -[ Laughing ] Oh, my goodness. -Misdirection. -Yeah. -Now, Jimmy, I want to see how well this works. Can we have the house lights up so I can see people? Yeah, just want to see -- Show of hands. How many of you saw the gorilla with the cymbals? Should be everyone! It's a goddamn gorilla with cymbals! [ Laughter ] Should be all of you! -Yes, yeah. -Now some set of that, how many of you saw Teller walk out here, cop the chicken, and split? That's almost everyone, too. Now here's where the misdirection comes in. How many of you, during all of that, saw us sneak the gorilla into the cage? [ Audience "Oohs" ] How many people saw that? Because that's misdirection. -What? -Oh, my gosh. [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ -That's Georgie Bernasek. Georgie Bernasek. -Are you kidding me? Oh, my gosh! That is -- -Only we would take the showgirl and put her in a gorilla outfit. -In a gorilla outfit. Unbelievable right there! Penn and Teller! [ Cheers and applause ] How did you do that? "Penn and Teller: Fool Us" premieres Monday at 8:00 p.m., on the CW. You guys are the best. We'll be right back! How?!
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Channel: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Views: 2,357,935
Rating: 4.8772058 out of 5
Keywords: The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, Penn & Teller, Lesson, Misdirection, Vanishing, Chicken, NBC, NBC TV, Television, Funny, Talk Show, comedic, humor, snl, Fallon Stand-up, Fallon monologue, tonight, show, jokes, funny video, interview, variety, comedy sketches, talent, celebrities, video, clip, highlight, magicians, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End, Penn & Teller Tell a Lie, Penn & Teller Get Killed, The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
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Length: 3min 57sec (237 seconds)
Published: Sat Jun 23 2018
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No exposure. While discussion about magic is encouraged, any exposure (or guesses) of methodologies and effects is strictly prohibited. Do NOT ask for secrets.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/MagicModBot 📅︎︎ Jun 25 2018 🗫︎ replies

Last month I saw them live and they did this exact thing!

Still didn't notice them sneak the gorilla lol

👍︎︎ 15 👤︎︎ u/R3w1 📅︎︎ Jun 25 2018 🗫︎ replies

Shout out to Alex Boyce as the un-credited man in this trick!

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/BradenCarlisle 📅︎︎ Jun 25 2018 🗫︎ replies

So good in taking a tried and true illusion and giving it a new and fun presentation.

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Haha, great stuff.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/savourthesea 📅︎︎ Jun 25 2018 🗫︎ replies

there's something truly wonderful about a "bungled" misdirect. Messy magic at it's finest.

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