I've become addicted to the show Penn & Teller: Fool Us , a reality TV contest where magicians perform magic tricks in front of legendary magician-comedian duo Penn and Teller, and see if they can fool them. But, some of these tricks are beyond the current abilities of most of the people taking the classes. David Roth (born 1952, New York City) is an American magician widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living coin magicians. Tickets to penn teller see the magic and comedy duo Penn & Teller perform at the Plaza Theatre on Sept.

Four magicians will perform in every episode as Penn & Teller try to figure out the mechanics behind each trick. The duo's CW show gives magicians the opportunity to fool two of the most well-known magicians ever. Well, Penn & Teller are teaching the art of magic in a new MasterClass (which looks terrific!).

Few in their audience - kids notwithstanding - may ever have believed that stage conjurors genuinely dabble in the supernatural, but at least that's what the acts occasionally purported to do. They called themselves magicians because they enjoyed generating the sense that what they did on stage was real magic.

A cute couple and a skateboarder do a lavish card trick, and another magician needs audience aid for predictions. According to Penn, Las Vegas just isn't what it used to be, and that has nothing to do with David Copperfield's shows. Penn & Teller: Fool Us premiered in 2011, and in the six seasons since, they've been fooled more times than we can count.

I'm inches away, focusing on Teller's rapid hand movements and despite being told when he's pulling balls out of his jacket pocket, it's all still a brilliant blur. I magically produce four silver dollars, one at a time, with the back of my hand toward you. In what may be the most hilarious magic trick in history, a magician wanders on stage wearing a dragon costume, and holding his Chihuahua.

But all this is timid stuff compared to some of their other tricks, which have included Penn playing around with a bear trap and Teller being run over by a ten-ton truck. The effect was good enough to fool some of the greatest magicians of all time, but anybody can learn to do it in under 10 minutes.