Penn Jillette Filmography

Dancing With the Stars: Season 06

Actors: Tom Bergeron, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba

History of the Joke with Lewis Black

Actors: Lewis Black, George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, Robin Williams, Penn Jillette, Teller

Synopsis: This program follows famously angry comedian Lewis Black as he searches for the elusive origin to the most basic component of his career: the joke. Through interviews with comedians like George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, and Robert Klein, Black finds out where humor originates in the brains of his Read More

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Actors: Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a time and place that saw him still reeling in massive audiences well into his 70s and 80s - Don Rickles qualifies as a show business legend. Rickles, of course, pioneered Read More

Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular

Actors: Larry the Cable Guy

Synopsis: Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular features the redneck stand-up comic starring in an adaptation of the classic Dickens Christmas story that has been adapted to suit his particular comic persona. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities

Actors: Al Goldstein, Alex Bennett, O.J. Simpson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Crumb

Synopsis: Few television programs have broken as many taboos as Screw publisher Al Goldstein's groundbreaking late-night cable program Midnight Blue, and in this collection of audacious clips, Goldstein takes a look beyond the porn and politics and into the lives of the era's hottest celebrities. From the Read More

Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller

Synopsis: Comic magicians Penn and Teller challenged themselves with their NBC television special Off the Deep End by staging a series of magic tricks and illusions totally underwater. In addition to their usual brand of post-modern prestidigitation, the show features a guest appearance by Aaron Carter. Read More

Identity [TV Series]

Synopsis: Put together by the same production team and network responsible for Deal or No Deal, the weekly game show Identity required its contestants to match up a group of a dozen strangers with a list of unique characteristics. Psychologist Deborah Anderson, body-language expert Mark Edgar Stephens, and Read More

American Carny: True Tales From the Circus Sideshow

Actors: Todd Robbins

Synopsis: Todd Robbins hosts this documentary directed by Nick Basile and narrated by Penn Jillette exploring the real lives of the circus sideshow and carnival performers including so called "freaks" as well as fireeaters, magicians and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Aristocrats

Crew: Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

Penn and Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller

Synopsis: Penn and Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour features the famous duo traveling throughout the world in order to find some of the most unusual and occasionally disgusting tricks. They also take time to look at the history of magic, and offer up humorous commentary on the people and places they Read More

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Season 03

Actors: Teller, Penn Jillette

Goodnight, We Love You: The Life and Legend of Phyllis Diller

Actors: Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: The comedienne who shot to stardom as "the world's worst housewife" offers an intimate look at her life and career on the eve of her farewell stand-up performance. Phyllis Diller has been keeping her fans in stitches for nearly half-a-century. A gleefully self-depreciating comic whose outlandish Read More

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Season 02

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller

Michael Moore Hates America

Synopsis: From Michael Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan to the movie-making capital of the United States, director Mike Wilson's inflammatory documentary travels across the country to hold the controversial Sicko director's allegedly questionable tactics up to the light for closer examination. Wilson is Read More

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: End of the World

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Second Hand Smoke/Baby Bullshit

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Talking to the Dead

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Alternative Medicine

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Alien Abductions

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Season 01

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Self-Helpless

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Creationism

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Feng Shui/Bottled Water

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: ESP

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Ouija Boards/Near Death Experiences

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Environmental Hysteria

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Eat This!

Crew: Screenwriter

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Sex, Sex, Sex

Crew: Screenwriter

Fantasia 2000

Actors: Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Teller, Penn Jillette, James Levine, Angela Lansbury, Leopold Stokowski

Synopsis: Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice Read More

Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller

Behind the Scenes with Nancy Graves

Actors: Nancy Graves

Synopsis: This award-winning PBS series examines the creative process of artists in different mediums. Here, the late sculptor Nancy Graves reveals how she creates a sense of "anti-gravity" in her colorful sculpture collages, which look as if they are about to tip over. Hosts Penn and Teller offer a series Read More

Behind the Scenes with Allen Toussaint

Actors: Allen Toussaint

Synopsis: This film is part of an award-winning series that introduces children to the creative process. The filmmakers visit with musicians, painters, photographers, sculptors, actors, and dancers to get inside their creative minds. The featured artist is New Orleans music giant Allen Toussaint. Composer Read More

Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Teller, Penn Jillette, Drew Carey, Rob Schneider, Lou Reed, Save Ferris

Synopsis: Magicians Penn & Teller host this 16-episode Vegas variety series with a salmagundi of sleight of hand, showgirls, card tricks, music, acrobat acts, rock tunes, and an assortment of illusions, including off-color "sex-magic" and their creepy rats-in-the-cage bit. Guests for the debut hour included Read More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More

Babylon 5: Day of the Dead

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Unexpected trouble develops during the Brakiris' traditional Day of the Dead ceremony. Elsewhere, a pair of intergalactic comedians named Rebo and Zooty arrive to give a show for the B5 crew. The two funsters are portrayed by "guerilla magicians" Penn and Teller, with author Harlan Ellison Read More

Friends: The One with the 'Cuffs

Synopsis: Monica (Courteney Cox) caters a party for her highly judgmental mom, Judy (Christina Pickles) -- only to lose one of her fake nails in the quiche. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is huckstered by a fast-talking encyclopedia salesman (played by magician Penn Jillette). And Chandler (Matthew Perry) gets locked Read More

Nothing Sacred

Actors: Paul Provenza, Stephen Dunham, John Gloria, Shannon Day, Krista Taylor

Synopsis: Three longtime friends try to untangle the knots of their love lives in this comedy. Darin (Paul Provenza), Matt (Stephan Dunham), and Kevin (John Gloria) all live in San Francisco. Darin recently married Natalie (Shannon Day), and while he loves her, he misses the excitement of bachelor life. Read More

The Drew Carey Show: See Drew Run

Synopsis: When the store's day-care center operator Faith (Joan Fagan) is injured in a parking lot accident, Mimi fills in for her. She soon discovers to her amazement that she gets along quite well with youngsters--and besides, these kids prove to be potent weapons in her ongoing war against Drew (Drew Read More

Toy Story

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy Read More

Hackers

Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Lawrence Mason

Synopsis: In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) has been fascinated with computers all his life; at the age of 11, he was able to break into the computer network of several top Wall Street investment and banking firms, and he nearly caused a major stock market crash in the process. As Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Drew Meets Lawyers

Synopsis: With store employee Nora threatening to sue Drew (Drew Carey) for creating a "hostile workplace" by posting a harmlessly ribald newspaper cartoon, Winfred-Louder's attorneys Fenn and Geller (played, appropriately, by magicians Penn & Teller) pressure Drew to settle the suit out of court. When our Read More

Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King

Actors: Jad Fair, David Fair, Penn Jillette

Synopsis: The first thing to remember when viewing this difficult-to-believe documentary is that there really is an underground band called Half Japanese and that the stories being told about their eighteen year musical career are, for the most part true. That being said, it is almost impossible to Read More

Behind the Scenes with David Hockney

Synopsis: This documentary highlights the magic and mystery of artistic expression. Hosted by magicians Penn and Teller, this award-winning series goes behind the scenes to explore the talent of many gifted artists of diversified mediums. This volume profiles painter David Hockeny, whose various works Read More

Behind the Scenes with Wayne Thiebaud

Synopsis: In this episode of Behind the Scenes artist Wayne Thiebaud shows how volume, shape, feeling and movement can transform a simple line into art. Wayne Thiebaud first gained national and international acclaim in the early 1960s with his food paintings such as Salads, Sandwiches, and Desserts. Read More

Behind the Scenes with Carrie Mae Weems

Behind the Scenes with Julie Taymor

Synopsis: This episode of PBS's Behind the Scenes series exposes children to the crafts of live theater through the work of director Julie Taymor. Taymor describes the importance of the theater tradition, and expresses the energy she finds there. The video shows how stage sets are built, how actors learn Read More

Behind the Scenes with David Parsons

Synopsis: This film is one of a series that explores the creative process by going behind the scenes with a variety of renowned artists to see the nature of their work. The series is aimed at a youth audience, to inspire creative endeavors by example. In this segment, American Ballet Theater choreographer Read More

Penn & Teller Get Killed

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller, Caitlin Clarke, David Patrick Kelly, Leo Cimino

Synopsis: Penn & Teller are magicians who are known for putting on a jet-black, fake blood-soaked comedy magic show. This inky comedy is imbued with their off-beat humor as it chronicles Penn's newest scheme to have a fan try to kill him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Penn & Teller Go Public

Synopsis: Penn & Teller are magicians who are known for putting on a jet-black, fake blood-soaked comedy magic show. This gory video chronicles them in performance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Light Years

Synopsis: Isaac Asimov wrote this animated sci-fi tale about the prince of the planet Gandahar, who is sent to the future in order to avenge an attack on his home world. The film is re-edited from the original French version (Ghandahar (1987), created and directed by Rene Laloux). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

Off Beat

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

My Chauffeur

Actors: Deborah Foreman, Sam Jones, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In a well-wrought sex comedy with one foot in the feminist camp and another on a banana peel, Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman in an excellent performance) defies social custom when she gets a job as a limo driver. The manager of the Brentwood Limousine Company, McBride (Howard Hesseman), and her Read More

Saturday Night Live: Catherine Oxenberg and Paul Simon

Actors: Catherine Oxenberg, Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Catherine Oxenberg and Paul Simon and features musical guest Ladysmith Black Mambazo. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Steve Guttenberg

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, The Pretenders, Buster Poindexter

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Steve Guttenberg and features musical guests The Pretenders and Buster Poindexter. Of note is a short film by Tim Robbins that served as a percursor for 1992's Bob Roberts. Penn & Teller also make a guest appearance. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Read More

Saturday Night Live: Ron Reagan

Actors: Ron Reagan, The Nelons

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ron Reagan and features musical guest the Nelsons. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Griffin Dunne

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanne Cash

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Griffin Dunne and features musical guest Rosanne Cash. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Tony Danza [1]

Actors: Tony Danza, Laurie Anderson

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Tony Danza and features musical guest Laurie Anderson. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Madonna

Actors: Madonna, Simple Minds

Synopsis: This 1985 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Madonna and features musical guest Simple Minds. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Teri Garr [3]

Actors: Teri Garr, Dream Academy, Jill Culton

Synopsis: This 1985 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Teri Garr and features musical guests Dream Academy and the Cult. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son

Synopsis: Detectives Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) follow crooks north to New York in this premiere episode of Miami Vice's second season. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Behind the Scenes with Max Roach

Synopsis: Behind the Scenes is a public television series that explores the "magic and mystery of artistic creation." It exposes children to the arts in an effort to deepen their appreciation. There are shows on painting, drawing, music, dance, sculpture, photography, and theater. The format used for this Read More