Penn Jillette

Person · Open Library

Works

18

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1955-03-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,233

Total plays

33,225

Penn Fraser Jillette, the larger (6'6"/1.98 m compared to Teller's 5'9"/1.75 m), talkative half of Penn & Teller, once attended Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Clown College, for which he has since apologized. Jillette became disillusioned with traditional magic acts that presented the craft as real by watching The Amazing Kreskin on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. At age eighteen, he saw a show by illusionist James Randi (The Amazing Randi) <a href="https:/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,698x

2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,254x

3. Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK

   · 2021 · cited 4,163x

4. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,666x

5. A Randomized Comparison of Coronary-Stent Placement and Balloon Angioplasty in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

   · 1994 · cited 3,372x

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Music

Quotes

• “Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.”
• “That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.”
• “Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.”
• “We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!”
• “I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.”
• “A guy called up, and in his lead, he said, "We've talked before. I used to be with US but now I'm for SELF." And I was like, "I guess we know everything now, don't we?" … I kind of laughed and I went, "I guess a lot of people are like that." And he paused and went, "Uhhh… what?" And I said, "Oh, nothing."”

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