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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, filmmaker, television personality and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. [1]

178 relations: Addictive personality, Alec Baldwin, Alpha House, American Humanist Association, Americans, Amherst, Massachusetts, An Honest Liar, Anarcho-capitalism, Atheism, Ayn Rand, ¡Mucha Lucha!, Babylon 5, Bible, Billions (TV series), Black Mirror, Black Museum (Black Mirror), Blondie (band), Broadway theatre, Bullshit, Cannabis (drug), Captain Howdy (band), Car 54, Where Are You? (film), Cato Institute, Chopped (TV series), Clitoris, Code Black (TV series), Comedy Central, Crashing (U.S. TV series), Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 6), Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series), Day of the Dead (Babylon 5), Deal with It (TV series), Debbie Harry, Derek Colanduno, Dharma & Greg, Director's Cut (film), Excite, Existence of God, Fantasia 2000, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Free FM, Friends, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, Gandahar (film), Gary Johnson, Gideons International, Global warming, God, No!, ..., Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Hackers (film), Half Japanese, Handy Manny, Heavy.com, Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series), Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder, Here's the Thing, Hollywood Squares, Identity (game show), In Bed with Joan, It's Tricky, Jad Fair, James Randi, Joel Fuhrman, Juggling, Just Shoot Me!, Katy Perry, King of the Nerds, Kramer (musician), Kreskin, Kym Herjavec, Laissez-faire, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Valley, Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarianism, List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Magic (illusion), Mariachi, Miami Vice, Michael Goudeau, Michael Moore Hates America, Michael Moschen, Misdirection (magic), Modern Family, Motor Trend, Music to Strip By, My Chauffeur, NBC, Neil Gaiman, Nell Scovell, Nevada, NPR, Numbers (TV series), Objectivism (Ayn Rand), Off Beat (1986 film), Off-Broadway, Paul Provenza, PC/Computing, Penn & Teller, Penn & Teller Get Killed, Penn & Teller Tell a Lie, Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn Radio, People (magazine), Pigface, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Playboy, Playing card, Power trio, Public broadcasting, Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, Ramones, Rascal Flatts, Rational Response Squad, Real Time with Bill Maher, Reason (magazine), Revision3, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Run-DMC, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series), Scorpion (TV series), Secondary school, Secretary, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Showtime (TV network), Simon & Schuster, Skeptical movement, Skepticality, Skepticism, Slate (magazine), Song poem, Sony Crackle, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Spin (magazine), Supernatural, Talk radio, Teller (magician), The Amazing Meeting, The Apprentice (U.S. season 12), The Apprentice (U.S. season 13), The Aristocrats, The Aristocrats (film), The Defenders (2010 TV series), The Drew Carey Show, The Eric Andre Show, The Grand Tour, The Great Simpsina, The Late Show with Ewen Cameron, The Magic Castle, The Moxy Show, The Residents, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The West Wing, The West Wing (season 6), Theism, Tim's Vermeer, Too Much Joy, Tough Guys Don't Dance (film), Toy Story, Twenty Twisted Questions, United States Patent and Trademark Office, VR.5, Waking Up in Vegas, War on drugs, Web search engine, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series), Wizard Wars, Young Americans for Liberty, 50 Skidillion Watts. Expand index (128 more) »

Addictive personality

An addictive personality refers to a particular set of personality traits that make an individual predisposed to developing addictions.

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Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian.

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Alpha House

Alpha House is an American political satire web television series produced by Amazon Studios.

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American Humanist Association

The American Humanist Association (AHA) is an educational organization in the United States that advances secular humanism, a philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms the ability and responsibility of human beings to lead personal lives of ethical fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley.

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An Honest Liar

An Honest Liar is a 2014 biographical feature film documentary, directed and produced by Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom, written by Weinstein, Greg O'Toole and Measom, produced through Left Turn Films, Pure Mutt Productions and Part2 Filmworks, and distributed by Abramorama.

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Anarcho-capitalism

Anarcho-capitalism is a political philosophy and school of anarchist thought that advocates the elimination of centralized state dictum in favor of self-ownership, private property and free markets.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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¡Mucha Lucha!

¡Mucha Lucha! (later known as ¡Mucha Lucha!: Gigante for the third and final season) is a Mexican-American animated television series that premiered on Kids' WB on August 17, 2002.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Billions (TV series)

Billions is an American television drama series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis, that premiered on Showtime on January 17, 2016.

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Black Mirror

Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker, with Brooker and Annabel Jones serving as the programme showrunners.

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Black Museum (Black Mirror)

"Black Museum" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of anthology series Black Mirror.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bullshit

Bullshit (also bullcrap) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism BS.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Captain Howdy (band)

Captain Howdy was an alternative rock band formed by Mark Kramer and Penn Jillette that existed between 1992 and 1997.

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Car 54, Where Are You? (film)

Car 54, Where Are You? is a 1994 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and stars David Johansen and John C. McGinley.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

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Chopped (TV series)

Chopped is an American reality-based cooking television game show series created by Executive Producer Linda Lea, along with Dave Noll and Michael Krupat.

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Clitoris

The clitoris is a female sex organ present in mammals, ostriches and a limited number of other animals.

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Code Black (TV series)

Code Black is an American medical drama television series created by Michael Seitzman which premiered on CBS on September 30, 2015.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Crashing (U.S. TV series)

Crashing is an American comedy television series created by Pete Holmes and executive produced by Holmes and occasional series director Judd Apatow.

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Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 6)

Season six of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 17, 2008; the first results show was a double-elimination episode airing on March 25, 2008.

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Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)

Dancing with the Stars is an American dance competition television series that premiered on June 1, 2005, on ABC.

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Day of the Dead (Babylon 5)

"Day of the Dead" is an episode from the fifth season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

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Deal with It (TV series)

Deal With It is an American comedy television game show series that debuted on July 17, 2013, and airs weekly on TBS.

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Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Tremble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, known as the lead singer of the new wave band Blondie.

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Derek Colanduno

Derek Colanduno (born January 19, 1974 in Albemarle, North Carolina) is an American skeptic and podcaster.

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Dharma & Greg

Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.

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Director's Cut (film)

Director's Cut is a 2016 independent dark comedy/horror film directed by Adam Rifkin, starring Penn Jillette and Missi Pyle.

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Excite

Excite (stylized as excite) is an internet portal launched in December 1995 that provides a variety of content including news and weather, a metasearch engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage.

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Existence of God

The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and popular culture.

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Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures, and released by Buena Vista Pictures.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy road film adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name.

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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is an American animated television series that was on PBS Kids. It is a reality-game show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Free FM

Free FM was a short-lived, mostly-talk-radio format and brand name for eleven FM CBS Radio stations in the United States, and was created because of Howard Stern's departure to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006.

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Friends

Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons.

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Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is a 2009 American direct-to-video adult animated science fiction comedy-adventure film serving as the fourth and final Futurama film.

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Gandahar (film)

Gandahar is a 1987 French animated science fantasy film.

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Gary Johnson

Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author and politician who served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.

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Gideons International

Gideons International is an evangelical Christian association founded in 1899 in Wisconsin.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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God, No!

God, No! Signs You May Already Be An Atheist and Other Magical Tales is a book by illusionist and comedian Penn Jillette.

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Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge (or Green Mill Jazz Club) is an entertainment venue on Broadway in Uptown, Chicago.

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Greenfield, Massachusetts

Greenfield is a city in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Hackers (film)

Hackers is a 1995 American crime film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens.

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Half Japanese

Half Japanese is an art punk band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair around 1975, sometime after the family's relocation to Uniontown, Maryland.

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Handy Manny

Handy Manny is a CGI animated children's television program.

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Heavy.com

Heavy.com is a news and information website based in New York City.

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Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)

Hell's Kitchen is an American reality competition television series based on the British series of the same name.

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Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder

"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" is the sixth episode of the eleventh season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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Here's the Thing

Here's the Thing is a public radio show and podcast interview series hosted by actor Alec Baldwin.

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Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes.

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Identity (game show)

Identity is a reality/game show, hosted by Academy Award winner and magician Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller and produced by Reveille where contestants could win a prize money of up to US$500,000 by matching 12 strangers one-by-one to phrases about their identities.

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In Bed with Joan

In Bed With Joan was an American weekly internet and television talk show hosted by Joan Rivers from her bed in her daughter Melissa's house near Malibu, California.

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It's Tricky

"It's Tricky" is the fourth and final single released from Run–D.M.C.'s third album, ''Raising Hell''.

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Jad Fair

Jad Fair (born June 9, 1954) is an American singer, guitarist, graphic artist and a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.

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James Randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

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Joel Fuhrman

Joel Fuhrman (born December 2, 1953) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates what he calls a micronutrient-rich diet.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Just Shoot Me!

Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from March 4, 1997, to August 16, 2003, with a total of 148 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.

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Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge.

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King of the Nerds

King of the Nerds is an American reality competition series co-produced by Electus and 5x5 Media.

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Kramer (musician)

Mark Kramer (born Stephen Michael Bonner in New York City in 1958http://www.kramershimmy.com/secondshimmy/?/bio/), known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc.

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Kreskin

The Amazing Kreskin (born George Joseph Kresge; January 12, 1935), also known as Kreskin, is an American mentalist who became popular on television in the 1970s.

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Kym Herjavec

Kym Herjavec (née Johnson; born 4 August 1976) is an Australian professional ballroom dancer and television performer who appeared in the first three seasons of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, before moving to the U.S. version of the franchise from 2006 to 2015.

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Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire (from) is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government intervention such as regulation, privileges, tariffs and subsidies.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is a major daily newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Libertarian Party (United States)

The Libertarian Party (LP) is a libertarian political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism and shrinking the size and scope of government.

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Libertarianism

Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.

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List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events

Jeopardy! is an American television quiz show created by Merv Griffin, in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of questions.

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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Mariachi

Mariachi is a musical expression that dates back to at least 18th century in Western Mexico.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Michael Goudeau

Michael Carey Goudeau (born May 11, 1959) is a juggler and an ex-circus clown who graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

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Michael Moore Hates America

Michael Moore Hates America is a documentary film directed by Mike Wilson that criticizes the work of film director Michael Moore.

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Michael Moschen

Michael Moschen is a juggler.

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Misdirection (magic)

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.

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Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television mockumentary family sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009, which follows the lives of Jay Pritchett and his family, all of whom live in suburban Los Angeles.

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Motor Trend

Motor Trend is an American automobile magazine.

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Music to Strip By

Music to Strip By is the fifth album released by the Maryland (USA) rock group Half Japanese.

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My Chauffeur

My Chauffeur is a 1986 American comedy film produced by Crown International Pictures and Marimark Productions starring Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, Howard Hesseman and E. G. Marshall.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Nell Scovell

Nell Scovell (born Helen Vivian Scovell; November 8, 1960) is a television and magazine writer, and producer.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Numbers (TV series)

Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that ran on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010.

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Objectivism (Ayn Rand)

Objectivism is a philosophical system developed by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand (1905–1982).

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Off Beat (1986 film)

Off Beat is a 1986 American comedy film about a young librarian who impersonates a police officer.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Paul Provenza

Paul Provenza (born July 31, 1957) is a television presenter, actor, actor on stage, radio panelist, stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and skeptic based in Los Angeles.

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PC/Computing

PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Business) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM-compatible (or "Wintel") hardware and software and tips and reference information for users of such software and hardware.

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Penn & Teller

Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are American magicians and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s, noted for their ongoing act which combines elements of comedy with magic.

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Penn & Teller Get Killed

Penn & Teller Get Killed is a 1989 black comedy film directed by Arthur Penn starring the magicians Penn & Teller.

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Penn & Teller Tell a Lie

Penn & Teller Tell a Lie is a six-part series starring Penn Jillette and Teller.

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Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular

Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular was a weekly American television variety show hosted by Penn and Teller that appeared on the FX Networks from August 10, 1998 - June 30, 1999.

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is an American documentary television series that aired from 2003 to 2010 on the premium cable channel Showtime.

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Penn & Teller: Fool Us

Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a British-American television program.

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Penn Radio

Penn Radio was an hour-long talk CBS radio show which ran from January 3, 2006 to March 2, 2007, hosted by Penn Jillette and Michael Goudeau and produced by "Happy" Jack Landreth and Patrick DiFazio.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.

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Pigface

Pigface is an industrial music supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," was the second largest daily printed newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States until it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games.

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Power trio

A power trio is a rock and roll band format having a lineup of electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit (drums and cymbals), leaving out the second rhythm guitar or keyboard instrument (e.g., Hammond organ) that are used in other rock music bands that are quartets and quintets.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off

Rachael vs.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts is an American country band formed in Columbus, Ohio in 1999.

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Rational Response Squad

The Rational Response Squad, or RRS, is an atheist activist group that confronts what it considers to be irrational claims, made by theists, particularly Christians.

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Real Time with Bill Maher

Real Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on HBO, hosted by comedian and political satirist Bill Maher.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Revision3

Revision3 was a San Francisco-based multi-channel Internet television network that created, produced and distributed Web television shows on niche topics.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

Ringling Bros.

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Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino

Rio Las Vegas is a hotel and casino near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie Comics series of the same name.

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Scorpion (TV series)

Scorpion (stylized as) is an American action drama television series loosely based on the life of computer expert Walter O'Brien.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Secretary

A secretary or personal assistant is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication, or organizational skills.

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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! is a 2015 American TV action comedy horror film and the third installment in the Sharknado series, following Sharknado and Sharknado 2: The Second One.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship service of the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which also owns sister services The Movie Channel and Flix.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Skeptical movement

The skeptical movement (also spelled sceptical) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism (also called rational skepticism).

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Skepticality

Skepticality is the official podcast of The Skeptics Society's Skeptic magazine.

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Skepticism

Skepticism (American English) or scepticism (British English, Australian English) is generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Song poem

Song poem usually refers to song lyrics that have been set to music for a fee.

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Sony Crackle

Sony Crackle is a United States-based subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment which provides ad-supported video entertainment content in the form of streaming media.

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast

No description.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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Teller (magician)

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director.

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The Amazing Meeting

The Amazing Meeting (TAM), stylized as The Amaz!ng Meeting, was an annual conference that focused on science, skepticism, and critical thinking.

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The Apprentice (U.S. season 12)

The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (also known as The Apprentice 12) is the fifth installment of the reality game show Celebrity Apprentice.

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The Apprentice (U.S. season 13)

The Celebrity Apprentice 6 (also known as All-Star Celebrity Apprentice or The Apprentice 13) is the sixth installment of the reality game show, Celebrity Apprentice, which premiered on Sunday, March 3, 2013.

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The Aristocrats

"The Aristocrats" (also called "The Debonaires" or "The Sophisticates" in some tellings) is a taboo-defying off-color joke that has been told by numerous stand-up comedians since the vaudeville era.

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The Aristocrats (film)

The Aristocrats is a 2005 American documentary comedy film about the famous dirty joke of the same name.

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The Defenders (2010 TV series)

The Defenders is a 2010 American legal comedy-drama that was ordered to series by CBS for the 2010–11 television season.

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The Drew Carey Show

The Drew Carey Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor.

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The Eric Andre Show

The Eric Andre Show is an American surreal comedy television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.

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The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series for Amazon Video, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, and produced by Andy Wilman.

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The Great Simpsina

"The Great Simpsina" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons twenty-second season.

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The Late Show with Ewen Cameron

The Late Show with Ewen Cameron, (also known as The Late Show) was a late-night talk show television programme that originally was broadcast in Scotland on the STV2 network channel presented by comedian and television personality Ewen Cameron.

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The Magic Castle

The Magic Castle, located in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, is a nightclub for magicians and magic enthusiasts, as well as the clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts.

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The Moxy Show

The Moxy Show (also known as The Moxy Pirate Show and The Moxy & Flea Show) is an American animated anthology television series produced by Turner Production for Cartoon Network.

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The Residents

The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992.

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The West Wing

The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006.

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The West Wing (season 6)

The sixth season of the American political drama television series The West Wing aired in the United States on NBC from October 20, 2004, to April 6, 2005, and consisted of 22 episodes.

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Theism

Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or deities.

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Tim's Vermeer

Tim's Vermeer is a documentary film, directed by Teller, produced by his stage partner Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler, about inventor Tim Jenison's efforts to duplicate the painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, in order to test his theory that Vermeer painted with the help of optical devices.

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Too Much Joy

Too Much Joy is an American alternative rock music group.

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Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)

Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name.

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Toy Story

Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Twenty Twisted Questions

Twenty Twisted Questions is a 1992 LaserDisc by American avant-garde group "The Residents".

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.

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VR.5

VR.5 is an American science-fiction television series first broadcast on the Fox network from March 10 to May 12, 1995.

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Waking Up in Vegas

"Waking Up in Vegas" is a song by American singer Katy Perry, taken as the fourth and final single from her second studio album, One of the Boys (2008).

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War on drugs

War on Drugs is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade.

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Web search engine

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (often known as simply Whose Line?) is an improvisational comedy show, which was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom, where it was hosted by Clive Anderson from 1988 to 1999.

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Wizard Wars

Wizard Wars is a reality competition show in which teams of magicians create and perform original magic routines before a live studio audience.

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Young Americans for Liberty

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is a 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organization that was formed in 2008 at the end of Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign established with the goal of spreading the education of libertarian values, namely freedom of speech, and emphasizing the role of the Constitution in the American government.

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50 Skidillion Watts

50 Skidillion Watts, also known as "50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records", was the label used by brothers David and Jad Fair of the punk rock band Half Japanese to release their first albums recorded in the late 1970s.

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References

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