The comedic duo also are appearing inSharknado 3: Oh Hell No!on July 22.
In a chat with EW, Jillette assures us the thirdSharknadolives up to the earlier installments.
That particular negotiation takes 15 years.
Since we left New York, we wanted to be back here.
But success is a two-edge sword.
When youre doing well in Vegas, they want to keep you there.
Weve got six weeks to do New York.
Were really excited about it.
We looked through all 40 years of material and picked out the stuff we want to do the most.
Its the first time weve taken a lot of the big tricks out of Vegas.
How do you dissect 40 years worth of material?
Then theres a thing called Penn & Teller One-minute Egg thats only a couple months old.
What exactly can fans expect from the show?
TELLER: The Broadway show has one or two of the craziest ideas weve ever had.
This may be a sign of our decline.
We worked on it for two years and three months.
The biggest secret to magic is no one would dream how hard you would work on something so stupid.
Whats the difference between the New York and Vegas audiences?
JILLETTE: I think the United States has become a little more homogeneous.
TELLER: Regional audiences used to mean more, but now everybody travels.
There is a kind of unity we havent had before.
Do you feel like that has affected the way your show has been received?
After every show we do, we meet people.
We have never been afraid of our fans or uncomfortable with our fans.
We like our audiences.
Social media just made our after show discussions go on 24 hours a day.
Forty years ago, you would see it just live.
With the kind of thing that we do, theres such a different dimension to seeing it live.
Its shocking live, even if youve seen pictures of the action before.
You do have a TV show coming out the same week as your Broadway showFool Uson the CW.
Why do TV if the real magic happens in person?
JILLETTE: The big lie behindFool Usis that it tells people constantly theres no camera tricks.
Every other magic show thats ever been done on TV, there are camera tricks.
OnFool Us, people get to do it just once.
Were in the audience.
Theres nothing that can be done trickery wise.
We do everything we can onFool Usto make the magic feel live, and it does feel live.
Are there any twists or challenge fans can expect on the new season?
Theres more of them, and do I dare say better?
The real twist is that I think the people who are going up are much, much better.
TELLER: There was nobody cut out of these shows.
They made a whole extra show out of all the wonderful people we had.
He used to come over to my parents house and do magic for them on their anniversary.
Comedy is also a part of your routine.
Are there any comedians youre loving these days?
JILLETTE: Gilbert Gottfried is the best of our lifetime.
Gilbert Gottfried is Stravinsky, hes Picasso, hes the best.
Im always amazing by anything Gilbert does.
Youre inSharknado 3this summer.
JILLETTE: Which our whole careers led up to.
What can you tell fans about your appearance?
JILLETTE: Were afraid of sharks.
Sharks that are flying in a tornado frighten us.
I thinkSharknado3will live up to1and2.
TELLER: And we got to sit across a diner table from David Hasselhoff.
That was one of my lifes ambitions.
After 40 years, it seems like youve been everywhere and worked with almost everyone.
Is there anyone left youd like to collaborate with, or any projects youd still love to do?
JILLETTE: In the 90s, we wrote a bit for Bob Dylan to do magic for us.
We were all set to do it and whatever the online grid was cancelled our show.
Theres a trick called Sam the Bellhop where you use a deck of cards to tell a story.
Ive always wanted to do a version of that storytelling card trick with Bob Dylan.
But you have your show at the Rio indefinitely, so you could still make that happen.
How long do you think you two will keep performing?
JILLETTE: We intend to go way beyond when were terrible.
I would like to die on stage.
I would like the last two years of our shows to be awful.
I would like to be barely crawling through.
I will not leave at the top of my gam like [David] Letterman and Johnny Carson.
I will leave at the bottom of my game.
Our show will end when they pry the wand from my dead, cold hands.
Can TV shows about magic be magical again?
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