Better luck next time shark...

I'm hoping we're nearing the point that wild animals eat every farking magician on the planet.

God Is My Co-Pirate: fark "almost." Come back when the shark finishes the job.

Yeah. The word "Almost" never entered my vocabulary in this. It's more of an all-or-nothing thing.

Sybarite: I'm hoping we're nearing the point that wild animals eat every farking magician on the planet.


Come at me, bro!

Sybarite: I'm hoping we're nearing the point that wild animals eat every farking magician on the planet.

You leave Penn & Teller alone!

"Almost"? Farking demon.

ShawnDoc: Sybarite: I'm hoping we're nearing the point that wild animals eat every farking magician on the planet.

You leave Penn & Teller alone!


They are the only thing worse than a magician, a hipster magician.

Sybarite: They are the only thing worse than a magician, a hipster magician.

How are Penn & Teller "hipster"? They've had the same schtick for at least the last 20 years, probably longer.

ShawnDoc: Sybarite: They are the only thing worse than a magician, a hipster magician.

How are Penn & Teller "hipster"? They've had the same schtick for at least the last 20 years, probably longer.

Maybe it's the nailpolish?

Sybarite: I'm hoping we're nearing the point that wild animals eat every farking magician on the planet.

Ricky Jay's gonna slice your head open with the Ace of Spades if he hears you say that.

ShawnDoc: Sybarite: They are the only thing worse than a magician, a hipster magician.

How are Penn & Teller "hipster"? They've had the same schtick for at least the last 20 years, probably longer.


It's their whole above-it-all attitude, behaving as though their somehow better, cooler, and more hip than the stodgy old establishment style magicians when they're actually just performing the same old tired bullshiat with some "edgy" veneer on top. Magic acts offend me at the most fundamental level, but behaving as though they're somehow a "cooler" type of magician makes them that much more revolting. It's like, I can handle a band that plays shiatty music but is willing to embrace how crappy they are, but a band that plays shiatty music but has an attitude like they're better than it just offends me. Penn and Teller are the progenitors of the whole modern "hip" magician industry (David Blaine, Criss Angel, etc.) where their stupid, debased form of entertainment repackaged in a glossy new package that just shouts "Look how cool we are!" Well, you're not. You're exactly the same as the ridiculous, cheesy asshole with the half-cape and top hat. Michael Hurwitz seemed to get it.

Sybarite: It's their whole above-it-all attitude, behaving as though their somehow better, cooler, and more hip than the stodgy old establishment style magicians when they're actually just performing the same old tired bullshiat with some "edgy" veneer on top. Magic acts offend me at the most fundamental level, but behaving as though they're somehow a "cooler" type of magician makes them that much more revolting. It's like, I can handle a band that plays shiatty music but is willing to embrace how crappy they are, but a band that plays shiatty music but has an attitude like they're better than it just offends me. Penn and Teller are the progenitors of the whole modern "hip" magician industry (David Blaine, Criss Angel, etc.) where their stupid, debased form of entertainment repackaged in a glossy new package that just shouts "Look how cool we are!" Well, you're not. You're exactly the same as the ridiculous, cheesy asshole with the half-cape and top hat. Michael Hurwitz seemed to get it.

I don't understand how magic acts offend you at a fundamental level. It's entertainment. It might not be terribly high-brow entertainment, but it's good, clean entertainment (for the most part). I collect magic books as part of my hobby and I can tell you, there's a lot of skill and planning involved in everything, and the "above it all" attitude and talk is there to distract you from seeing something that the magician doesn't want you to see.

you know, the thing about David Blaine... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'.

Is he going to suck the shark's dick? because if not...

Ehhh, I'd rather see him eat his own head

Seems more like a half-assed "Live And Let Die" parody.

Penn & Teller are anti-magicians, because they usually tell you how they did the trick after they do it.

I don't really understand the hate on "magic" or "illusionist", because whether you find it entertaining or not, they intentionally illuminate the idea of a hoax. The experience gives you a good deal of ammunition to become skeptical of your senses in spite of your perceptions. Copperfield's "make big shiat go away" stuff is never interesting, but Teller has a good bit on the subtle stuff. (new window)

These bits are pretty good too:) (new window)

A pity that shark wasn't a little more bootstrappy.

OnlyM3: RexTalionis

I don't understand how magic acts offend you at a fundamental level. It's entertainment.
It doesn't. He hates their politics and this is how he shows it.

Kind of petty, ain't it?

Gitwizard