Penn and teller which is mute

Teller who long ago had his name legally changed to that mononym has long served as the silent straight man to Penn Jillette's motor-mouthed funnyman, and in a recent Huffington Post interview, Jillette — speaking for Teller, as per usual — explained why this is. And Teller just thought if he was quiet, they'd grow weary of heckling him. It sounds like a bit, but if it is, the duo have been consistent about it. In fact, Teller — who apparently does speak very well — has told the same story himself.

The "rough environments" Jillette was referring to? Frat houses. And I am a small man of not particularly imposing proportions or voice," Teller recalled in an interview with NPR. So I found that if I turned off all the lights except for a few lawn spotlights that I carried with me and put them on me, and then did creepy things like swallowing razor blades I found that when I did that sort of thing, they paid attention to me in a way that if I had tried to assert myself over them, they wouldn't have.

It sort of undercut any kind of heckling. The CW star explained that the lack of noise also provides a deep level of intimacy, adding, "A lot of people who don't speak onstage in magic blast the audience with music that is loaded with all sorts of emotions. I think that's cheating. And by stripping away music, by stripping away speech, there is a level of intimacy that I feel with the audience that is deep.

It's very deep. Distractify is a registered trademark. All Rights Reserved. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Whatever their personal relationship looks like, it's clearly worked well for their professional careers. As Penn's quote suggests, he seems to think that affection between them might have actually made the partnership less stable.

Instead, they see one another as colleagues, and so they don't expect to be fulfilled by one another on any sort of emotional level. Although they are both incredibly competent magicians, Penn and Teller know that audiences really want to be entertained by magic. As a result, they often think about that aspect of their tricks before they worry about the magic element. We're looking for an idea and a presentation, and then find a good trick that goes with it," Penn explained in the interview with CBS.

Clearly, their current arrangement is working out great for Penn and Teller. They've enjoyed several decades as some of the best-known magicians around.

How's that for a trick?