Penn Jillette on “ In Bed With Joan..” Also, watch Penn on this weeks ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’……..
EDM collaborations? Penn Jillette says, ‘Crank it’..
By John Katsilometes for the Las Vegas Sun..
We have been through so many AFAN AIDS Walks with Penn Jillette it seems there is not much else for him to say.
“Just take everything I’ve said in the past years and say that again,” he said during a phone conversation this week.
That’s a lot of territory to cover.
Jillette has already said the reason he and performing partner Teller have chosen AIDS as a charity meriting support is because “sometimes you just fall into things.” Five years ago, I asked how long he and Teller were supporters of the event, and he responded, “Ten years. Ten, or 37.”
And there was the moment during the charity run seven years ago when I asked Jillette about the competitive environment of entertainment in Las Vegas and he said, “If you go to a show on the Strip in 2007 and see someone doing a George Burns impersonation, you are not going to want to see another show on the Strip…
Penn Jillette’s Original Pilot ‘Street Cred’ is Green Lit by the Travel Channel
"Rio magician headliners Penn & Teller know how to keep busy.
The network announced today that it has green lit production for “Street Cred,” an original pilot that follows Penn as he scours the country for America’s best street performers. The magician, comedian and former street performer will team up with undercover experts to seek out the show’s unwitting contestants through hidden cameras, rewarding the best with a $10,000 tip.
The half-hour pilot is produced by High Noon Entertainment and was green lit along with two other pilots…”