{"id":10471,"date":"2011-07-28T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2011-07-28T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:56:12","slug":"penn-and-teller-talk-about-their-new-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/penn-and-teller-talk-about-their-new-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn and Teller talk about their new TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinoff.comicbookresources.com\/2011\/07\/27\/cci-penn-teller-tell-a-lie-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Amaya<\/a> reports on the duo&#8217;s latest show, <em>Penn &amp; Teller Tell a Lie<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of forced Showtime into doing a show about science and reality,\u201d admitted Penn Jillette, the more outspoken half of the duo. \u201cWe did get to have naked people and we did get to say profanity. I am one of the only people who does not own a motorcycle who has said \u2018motherfucker\u2019 enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After referring to their new home as \u201cThe Disco Channel,\u201d Jillette mentioned that the cable network was \u201cmore interested in science.\u201d Unlike Bullshit, the performer hopes Tell a Lie will take a more pointed view of both science and objective reality. He then outlined the format: \u201cWe\u2019re doing six packages, most of them [featuring] us. One of those stories will be a fake, a complete lie. [After each episode], the audience can go to discovery.com and vote on which is a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teller clarified that segments within each episode will make certain claims. \u201cWe will claim that a single head of human hair can lift a Mustang,\u201d he began. \u201cWe will claim that a wrecking ball can be stopped by special wallpaper. We\u2019ll claim that you can put a person into a tank of live piranha and they will not kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person will be Teller,\u201d Jillette interjected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Amaya reports on the duo&#8217;s latest show, Penn &amp; Teller Tell a Lie: \u201cWe kind of forced Showtime into doing a show about science and reality,\u201d admitted Penn Jillette, the more outspoken half of the duo. \u201cWe did get to have naked people and we did get to say profanity. I am one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16],"tags":[347,268,101],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-science","tag-debunking","tag-pennandteller","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2IT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}