Penn And Teller: Fool Us- Episode 3

Yesterdays episode of Penn and Teller: Fool Us had plenty of good magic, but none of the four acts competing managed to fool Penn and Teller. That didn't matter though, as all four managed to impress not just the duo, but Johnathan Ross and the whole audience as well. These acts were...

Piff The Magic Dragon - Comedy Magician

Piff changed a spectators signed card into a predicted one, quarter by quarter. It was a cute and funny effect, but didn't quite fool Penn and Teller. I think it may have been done with a gimmicked card, but it was a nice effect all the same

Soma - Hungarian Close-Up Magician

Soma did a number of phone manipulations, which impressed everyone watching. Even Penn and Teller, who weren't fooled by this, said it was "delightful". It was entertaining and slickly presented too.

Alan Hudson- Comedy Mentalist

Alan did a cheerfully old fashioned routine involving guessing the song playing in each of four CD players. These songs were rather retro ones, not surprising given the nature of the trick. For the climax, he revealed Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" as the song on the final CD player, through a set of cards held up by the crowd to reveal his name, and a picture of Elvis on Alan's shirt. However, Penn and Teller weren't fooled, guessing that modern technology had been used to "Force" the song  choices

Damien O'Brian - Street Magician

Damien performed a trick involving Johnathan choosing a card at random from a pack, which not only matched the card chosen randomly from another pack by a second volunteer, but also matched a prediction made by Damien. The trick didn't fool Penn and Teller, who noted that the card had been forced and that Johnathan was the "Perfect Patsy"

The show ended, as usual, with Penn and Teller performing a trick of their own. Teller made coins appear out of nowhere in an empty fish tank. He put them in another, full, fish tank, and made a large number of fish appear, before turning some of them back into coins for the volunteer. That trick fooled us most of all.

P.S: I'm sorry I haven't yet posted any new magic tricks, but you can be promised several all at once when I get back to posting them next week, hopefully (But don't hold your breath, just in case I miss my deadline again!)