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Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette

PENN JILLETTE is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award­ winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately, and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He cohosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has... Read full bio

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God, No! will be released on June 05, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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God, No! is now available in Trade Paperback
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God, No! will be released on August 16, 2011 in eBook
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God, No! will be released on August 16, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
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Gulf News, April 3, 2013
...the real world of Las Vegas illusionists, after Daley and Goldstein talked to magicians such as Lance Burton, Penn Jillette and David Copperfield, who makes a cameo in the film. ?Like rock stars or movie stars, these guys are very competitive with one...
WMMQ-FM 94.9, April 1, 2013
...The Turtles. Shell Shocked was co-written with respected music journalist Jeff Tamarkin, and features a foreword by comic/magician Penn Jillette. You can check out an excerpt from the autobiography now at RollingStone.com. Kaylan will celebrate the...
LEO Weekly, February 20, 2013
...‘Every Day is an Atheist Holiday’ Written by Penn Jillette. Blue Rider Press; 288 pgs., $25.95. When you have a great title and a couple hundred pages to fill, one hopes it’s more substantive than what the...
Architect Magazine, February 6, 2013
...bagel this morning, the TV behind the cash register had a commercial for Superfocus, in which Joel Grey, Penn Jillette, and others were hawking glasses that resemble what architects were wearing half a century ago. Lo and behold, the Icon Collection...
Las Vegas Review Journal, January 30, 2013
...as a greater person." Dad has many more things to say, for instance, about his run-ins with Penn Jillette, who brushed him off at a Borders bookstore, and how Holly Madison is a symbol of the sexually free ways women dress here. "It's women's liberation,"...
The Advocate, January 7, 2013
...Blue Rider Press, $25.95 Penn Jillette of the comedy-magic duo of Penn & Teller follows up last year’s God, No! with Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! filled with humorous essays that provide new...
Kansas WB, January 3, 2013
...in 1990. If you ever wanted to know what Teller, who is silent in his magic act with Penn Jillette, sounds like, he'll be in discussion Friday evening at the Aero in between screenings of two films, 2012's "Play Dead," which Teller directed with Shade...
Riverside Press Enterprise, January 18, 2013
...of the namesake tree on the cover. Other species have been named after Cesar Chavez, John Muir, magician Penn Jillette, President Barack Obama, Angelina Jolie, Sarlacc – the creature from the fictional desert planet Tatooine in “Star Wars,” and...
NBCNews.com, January 18, 2013
...interest Dan Humphrey—who used the show as a stepping stone to a movie career.  Previously associated with comedian Penn Jillette, Penn is a simple, evocative name that could see wider use. Shia LaBeouf Shia (rhymes with hiya) LaBeouf got his...
Gibson, January 17, 2013
...guitarist Zakk Wylde and former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford, plus comedians Craig Gass, Jim Norton and Jim Florentine. Penn Jillette will host the event. Want in? It’s going to cost you. Tickets for the evening begin at $250. Those who can’t fork...
Guitar World, January 17, 2013
...The Recording Academy that provides emergency financial assistance and addiction recovery resources to music people in need. Roastmaster Penn Jillette and other metal-loving luminaries such as last year’s honoree Zakk Wylde, Anthrax’s Scott Ian,...
MCN, January 17, 2013
...Apprentice" Sunday, March 3 at 9 p.m. EST on NBC Starring : Trace Adkins, Stephen Baldwin, Gary Busey, Penn Jillette, Lil Jon, Bret Michaels, Dennis Rodman, Dee Snider, Marilu Henner, La Toya Jackson, Claudia Jordan, Omarosa, Lisa Rinna, Brande...
Toledoblade.com, January 17, 2013
...t know if we should sign the release. I mean this is just terrible what I did.' And Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, the directors, were like egging me on off camera and they cut out them going, 'Come on, Bob, just do it,' because I couldn't have...
MCN, January 16, 2013
...Apprentice" Sunday, March 3 at 9 p.m. EST on NBC Starring : Trace Adkins, Stephen Baldwin, Gary Busey, Penn Jillette, Lil Jon, Bret Michaels, Dennis Rodman, Dee Snider, Marilu Henner, La Toya Jackson, Claudia Jordan, Omarosa, Lisa Rinna, Brande...