Penn Jillette

What Did Penn Jillette Do Before Working on the Penn & Teller Show?

Celebrities & Entertainment News, Magic / August 31, 2021

Penn Jillette was well-known for his role in the TV show Penn and Teller. Little did we know, he was an all-around entertainer, writer, your good old jack of all trades. Penn Jillette was a popular computer magazine columnist in the 1990s for pranking readers and mentioning Uma Thurman randomly. He also helped debunk a […]

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Sleight of hand artist Apollo Robbins was so proficient that he once managed to pick the pockets of 2 secret service agents assigned to former president Jimmy Carter. He managed to steal the forner president’s itinerary, the keys to his motorcade and the badges of the agents.

Magic / February 20, 2021

A Pickpocket’s Tale A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a pickpocket of almost supernatural ability. Jillette, who ranks pickpockets, he says, “a few notches below hypnotists on

Sleight of hand artist Apollo Robbins was so proficient that he once managed to pick the pockets of 2 secret service agents assigned to former president Jimmy Carter. He managed to steal the forner president’s itinerary, the keys to his motorcade and the badges of the agents. Read More »