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"Looks Simple"—But It Isn't
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Question: What was the inspiration behind your "Looks Simple"
trick? Penn Jillette: Teller and I were fascinated by how
stupid magic is, that magic is going through all these elaborate
machinations to make something look one way that's really another. And
it struck us as really funny to do a magic trick that accomplished
reality.
And we went through many, many things. We were going to originally do it
with cooking or something like that but after weeks of trying to write
this bit we came up with the idea of how about taking out a cigarette,
lighting it, putting a cigarette out, and then pulling out another
cigarette and lighting it. How about if we did that trick exactly like
that with all accomplished by trickery. Stuff you could do simply. And
that seemed to have such a purely existential feel to us. Going through
incredibly complicated machinations to get to a very simple end.Recorded on June 8, 2010Interviewed by Paul Hoffman
Question: What was the inspiration behind your "Looks Simple"
trick? Penn Jillette: Teller and I were fascinated by how
stupid magic is, that magic is going through all these elaborate
machinations to make something look one way that's really another. And
it struck us as really funny to do a magic trick that accomplished
reality.
And we went through many, many things. We were going to originally do it
with cooking or something like that but after weeks of trying to write
this bit we came up with the idea of how about taking out a cigarette,
lighting it, putting a cigarette out, and then pulling out another
cigarette and lighting it. How about if we did that trick exactly like
that with all accomplished by trickery. Stuff you could do simply. And
that seemed to have such a purely existential feel to us. Going through
incredibly complicated machinations to get to a very simple end.Recorded on June 8, 2010Interviewed by Paul Hoffman
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