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I would be sweating into the mic, trying to get a clever word in here and there while in awe of how fast, insightful, profound, and motherfucking funny Sam was every second.

Stern would kick off the show and Sam was always so good. I’ve never had a sip of alcohol or tried any recreational drug in my life, and I’d come in to the Stern show as rested as carny trash could be that early in the morning-focused and ready to work. I did the Howard Stern radio show a lot in the late eighties. Hank’s genius might have been state-dependent, but his dying wasn’t even that.įor years it seemed Christopher Hitchens was always drunk, so he was calling up information in the same state (drunk) that he learned it (drunk).
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Hank’s driver drove him across many state lines all night in his long white Cadillac and when they got to Oak Hill, West Virginia, Hank was dead.

Hank Williams was so fucked-up we don’t even know which of the United States he died in. They’re performing in the same state in which they practiced. This explains the brilliance of all the jazz cats on heroin and how Keith Richards could play even a specially tuned guitar while as fucked-up as. My doctor’s brother (how’s that for a source?) said there is such a thing as state-dependent learning. But the drink was irrelevant-I could never see that it made any difference to his abilities. I know nothing about drinking, but I know that Hitchens did drink, and when he made that comment he was sitting next to me on the dais with a drink in front of him. He is better at speaking off the top of his head after a couple of drinks than I am at remembering his brilliance later while referencing notes. I’m a little afraid to put that in quotes, because no matter how brilliantly I remember any Hitchens phrase, when I go back and check, what he said was better than I remember.
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I remember sitting in a room full of skeptics when I first heard Christopher Hitchens say, Atheists don’t have saints and we don’t have martyrs. All you have to be able to say is I don’t know. You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist.
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He currently cohosts the CW Network competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! which was nominated for a 2017 Critics' Choice Award. Jillette cohosted the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! which was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won him a Writers Guild Award. The pair have their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They didn’t understand that it was a celebration of freedom, and they demanded to know whether we’d burned a flag in the White House.Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award–winning magic duo Penn & Teller, whose live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headlining show in Las Vegas. Within the plot of the show, some people didn’t understand our passionate magic trick.
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It’s magic.įor the TV show “The West Wing” we performed our flag burning trick at the fictional first daughter’s birthday party. With that freedom, with our Bill of Rights, it’s the greatest symbol on earth. Without the right to burn the flag, without that freedom of expression, the flag is just a piece of cloth. We didn’t kid ourselves carny trash like Penn & Teller don’t deserve that kind of reaction. Many veterans and other patriots told us after the show it was their favorite magic trick.

Trump's threat to democracy isn't free speech, it's this Republican candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election in the early hours of the morning in a widely unforeseen upset. NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 9: Protestors burn an American flag on Fifth Avenue outside of Trump Tower, Novemin New York City.
