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Penn Jillette became a household name as a magician and comedian, but it's his passionate opinions on today's hottest topics that made him an online sensation. Penn Point will showcase his unique point of view in a compact vlog, four times a week. Coming to Revision3 on May 24, 2010!
In one of Penn's appearances on Larry King Live, Seth MacFarlane makes an inane argument about the Tea Party protests.
For the first time ever, Penn spills the beans on an illusion that's still in development.
From the set of Bullshit, Penn explains why the iPad is a time-wasting distraction machine.
Penn describes parties involving nude cornstarch wrestling and urination in part one of this infamous tale.
Just in case you aren't circus-trained, know this: Never invite a chimpanzee and a little person to the same party.
No conspiracy theories here -- but Penn discusses the possibility of Obama's change in policies after receiving top secret info.
Check out Penn's new crush -- Doda -- the hot Polish popstar who's not only smart but got arrested for blasphemy charges after dissing the Bible.
Penn officially ranks the three most underrated things in the world with musings on Christopher Hitchens's equally explicit version of the list.
Penn lets you in on the alarming details behind why Sarah Silverman and a writer for The West Wing won't trash Muslims.
The unsuspecting local morning shows that invited on J-Strass shouldn't be ridiculed -- and neither should the "racists" in Borat.
Everyone is lambasting Rand Paul's perspective on civil rights, but Penn shares why some editorials are actually singing his praises.
Penn reveals what makes David Letterman and Jay Leno look like fun guys: the little known interview before he appears on a talk show.
Penn & Teller risk getting robbed, raped and murdered at the worst gig of their lives.
Penn gives us a preview of an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit that covers Andrew Wakefield and the antivaxxer controversy.
In order to remain silent, you'll have to say so! Penn actually agrees with this awkward Supreme Court ruling.
Nancy Pelosi is just as insane as Sarah Palin when it comes to crazy religious shit.
A firebombed Jacksonville mosque causes Penn to explain why individual beliefs should stay out of bombings and attacks.
Penn tells us all about the new Atlas Shrugged movie and how its new indie angle could make it a blockbuster like The Passion of the Christ.
This new breast cancer vaccine could lead to some monumental changes -- in how you think about mice.
Apple banned an app called iSlam and yet an anti-Christian app, BibleThumper, remains in the app store!
A Catholic dipshit is trying to get the Empire State Building lit up in Mother Teresa's "colors" by leveraging an embarrassingly inadequate petition.
In three states, it's now illegal to record law enforcement on a camera. Could this cause an escalation in police misconduct?
A jobless 51-year-old was sued for writing a letter to his senator. Does this limit your freedom to dissent?
Assuming Obama is the PERFECT president, Penn Jillette explains why you shouldn't support his views on war and healthcare.
After watching a movie David Blaine recommended, Penn is reminded of an encounter he had with its director, Werner Herzog.
George Clinton brought the funk. Penn and Teller brought the case of mistaken identity.
Learn how to go from Hasidic Jew to atheist -- Penn had dinner with a few friends doing exactly that.
Walk into a thought experiment proving that astrological signs are akin to RACISM!
Steve Martin is an entertainer so he rarely engages in controversy -- so, how does he handle his religious beliefs?
Penn admits that in Hollywood, he won't get cast for the attractive parts.
Ari Melber tells Penn and Joy Behar about a Gulf of Mexico oil spill solution that could have been.
After arguing with Dana Loesch, James Carville and Stephanie Miller over our wars abroad, Penn has his thoughts confirmed by an old friend.
Penn welcomes you to Piccadilly Circus -- where he and Teller performed the most expensive card trick ever.
Where Penn stands, colonists fought for their freedom. Where Penn grew up, that right is being pissed away.
Find out the risky upshot of the growing reusable grocery bag trend.
Penn's daughter has a middle name that might be considered child abuse, but it will get her out of speeding tickets for life.
Penn pays homage to the Beatles music video for Can't Buy Me Love.
Now that iPhone 4 is released, Penn explains what happens to old iPhones -- the same thing as retired circus pigs.
What was Penn doing 10 years ago today? He was starting a new hobby -- one he knew he'd never be the best at.
Dana Loesch responded to a Penn Point on her own show a week ago -- and here's Penn's reply!
A circuit court ruled in favor of porn after the FCC tried to strike down John Stagliano's adult films for obscenity.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! covers sensitive subjects. So, when Penn was confronted by a paralyzed cheerleader's mother, he got nervous...
Penn Jillette is one of Las Vegas Weekly's top 50 defining Vegas personalities. He couldn't be number one... could he?
There's one creature on the planet that never dies -- reverting to youth after fully maturing. Who wants one?
Penn explains the daily annoyances that law enforcers face and how, in spite of those nuisances, they're held to a higher standard.
In season 2 of Bullshit!, Penn and Teller introduced a phony alternative skin care product -- and it actually caught on.
Penn's Finnish "Penn pal" inadvertently sabotages him and Teller when they appear on Cash Cab.
What does it say about prayer if people are praying for outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens to die?
Penn follows up on the USDA racism scandal, the topic of his most recent Larry King appearance.
When a German magician fools Ari Melber backstage in Vegas, his reaction demonstrates the liberal attitude towards every political problem.
The E. Coli grocery bag scare that Penn commented on might have been based on a bullshit study.
Learn how Penn feels about disagreeing with Christopher Hitchens in spite of how smart he is.
Penn is faced with a content/form conflict when he judges poetry on HBO's Brave New Voices.
Find out who Penn wants to fuck these days!
Penn constantly gets one question about censorship after his show in Vegas. Here, he answers it.
Penn has decided to hack off his ponytail for Locks of Love.
Penn and Teller will appear on The Simpsons again! Penn tells you what it's like to hang out in Springfield.
Penn continues to workshop a brand new escape trick from their show at the Rio in Las Vegas.
Penn attempts to get Revision3 into a lawsuit with Marvel comics by showing off his underwear.
Penn and Teller will appear in a new music video by Rascal Flatts that parodies The Hangover. He discusses being associated with questionable music.
Penn explains his Kevin Bacon movie night tradition and the puzzling film, Seventh Seal.
Penn introduces us to his favorite living novelist of all time, Nicholas Baker.
Penn finishes up his latest Penn Point on Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke.
Penn finally talks about the mosque construction near Ground Zero thanks to your persistent commenting!
Penn is caught in Glenn Beck's controversy after he holds a contentious rally on Martin Luther King Day.
If a Koran burning could cause deaths abroad -- as General Petraeus claims -- then should we prevent it? Should book burning be banned altogether?
Penn Jillette revisits his time on Dancing with the Stars as the 2010 season begins with Bristol Palin and The Situation.
If you can't use the r-word, what can you use?
Penn gets hate mail because of his associations with Glenn Beck. Penn responds.
Penn speculates about the missing trombone scene in Piranha 3D and explores the pros and cons of 3D tits.
There is a guy with the last name "Crimefighter" -- for a legitimate reason.
Penn explains how a 1st Amendment attorney's opinion is how book burners are like Hitler.
Penn tweeted "imagine no religion" on September 11 and here's the response he received.
If you thought the audience boos for Sarah Palin and Jennifer Grey were bad timing, then you should see the rest of the show...
Penn explains the conspiracy theories that he gets entangled in just by producing his show, Penn & Teller: Bullshit.
Penn appeared in the original Wall Street... and at the Wall Street 2 premiere party.
Penn reacts to cartoonist Molly Norris's unfortunate fate. The FBI advised her to change her name and disappear.
The pope is being accused of linking atheists to Nazis, so Penn tells Pope Benedict what he thinks.
Well, the show is actually called "The Last Word" -- but Penn was on a test episode where he agreed with the politics and beliefs of a real witch.
Penn explains the science behind the Red Sea parting and why it's insane that a religious person would be behind the study.
Penn's smart. He's got smart friends. What does he think of P2P file-sharin
Penn takes us from the movie talhotblond to the mitigating circumstances around murder in a nano second. Typical. The movie is a documentary on questionable parental behavior filled with deception, beauty and murder. All the makings of the perfect rant about how we should not kill or lie to our children.
Penn talks about watching American Werewolf in London on his iPhone and insults the director. Penn loves the movie and can't stop raving about the cinematic beauty and story lines. Penn proves an iPhone can capture movie greats without missing any of the screen. John Landis should be proud.
Penn has a love hate relationship with the series of Mad Men. Penn loves to watch the very addictive show every week but doesn't know why, is it the 60's, the music, the smoking and drinking, Don Draper? Come find out.
Is Facebook violating your privacy? Or is Facebook just a business that the government should stay out. You are only as private as you want to be.
Do you know if you are being watched? Look, shows you how often cameras are on us all day long. This series demonstrates how surveillance cameras captures the human condition in the day to day world.
Penn talks about how religion and halloween have crossed paths. Penn defends those who don't celebrate halloween.
Penn takes on Tom Hanks at the Night of Too Many Stars. Not only does he fool callers in believing he is Tom Hanks he does it in front of Tom Hanks.
Penn recruits George Clooney next on his list to mess with callers at the Night of Too Many Stars Telethon part 2. Can Penn convenience callers that the real George Clooney is on the phone?
Penn shares his own Bully experience as a big gay guy in school. Penn also questions why bullies do not come forward to admit they were bullies!
Penn explains that government is not going to make things better, when you get older life gets better.
Penn's position on Sisterwives, government should stay out of the marriages business. The government does not need to know who you marry, why you marry, how many people you marry or to not marry at all.
Penn wants to defend Sarah Palin but just can't. Sarah Palin's recent tweets to Ann Coulter's comments are just another stupid move Sarah Palin does that Penn can not get behind.
Penn doesn't care if you smoke and knows that graphic pictures or sending out scary information will not get people to quit.
Penn thinks that S.E. Cupp is really good looking but she confuses the fuck out of people. How can a woman so pretty be so mixed up?
Penn delivers a book report on "Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman" Julie Hecht interviews Andy Kaufman, trying (and mostly failing) to get a straight answer out of the notoriously evasive comedian.
Penn has a startling encounter with Al Pacino and drools over ingenue Lily Rabe. Who says Shakespeare ain't for dummies?
A recently discovered letter, written by Albert Einstein, demonstrates Einstein's views on religion, God, and the "Chosen" status of the Jewish people. [SPOILER!] He thinks it's all "an incarnation of the most childish superstition."
Penn feels intense compassion for several ministers who have come out of the closet as Atheists. Apparently, they actually read the Bible and realized how immensely ludicrous it all is.
The Atheist's dilemma: is Christmas just a crass commercial shill, or a bullshit celebration of Baby Jesus?
In yet another battle of the ongoing War Against Christmas, the American Atheists take to the streets. Fox News is there to save Baby Jesus from these vile fiends.
In darkest New England, a tribe of elderly female churchgoers conduct a secret rite every Sunday. The result: coffee jello. Seven times stronger than the purest methamphetamine, this noxious substance and its use have finally come to light.
Changing your profile picture on Facebook to a cartoon character to raise awareness for child abuse is the stupidest @##@ing idea ever.
Scientists have discovered Arsenic-based life on Earth. On other planets? Not so much.
Economy in collapse. Unemployment soaring. US govt. to the rescue with... TV commercial volume level laws???
Richard Milhous Nixon. America's BEST president... or America's BESTEST president?
The It Gets Better campaign has one flaw: implying that suicide is a rational response to bullying.
Should the government use taxpayers' money to support controversial art?
Bullshit Changes the Life of a Tarot Card Scammer
Who is more self-deluded, Snookie or Joy Behar? The answer may surprise you/be really inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.
Holly Madison and David Copperfield work some magic on Penn.
Hyperbole, passion, and metaphor are beautiful parts of rhetoric. The marketplace of ideas can not be toned down for the insane.
Human nature drives us to search for deeper meaning, but maybe it's just the shooter's fault.
When the Measles Epidemic of 2020 wipes out humanity, blame this bimbo.
By 2020, the US will have to run everything for 8 cents on the dollar.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
9 out of 10 hot teen lesbians agree: your life will become a wonderland filled with rainbows and unicorns if you buy stuff from our sponsors.
Grammar lessons! Dick jokes! This episode has it all.
Science fact: Hair really does squeak when it's clean. Especially nubile high school girl hair.
This mime doesn't suck. Except when he's miming Anna Nicole Smith.
Which news reader for the iPad is the best? None of them.
A company in the UK has developed the latest weapon in the war against crime: an army of bored internet users watching store security cameras from home. This cannot possibly go wrong.
Thirst. If you drink enough homeopathic medicine, you will be less thirsty. For anything else, take something real.
In this shocking expose, Penn reveals the secret truth behind... his name.
When is it appropriate to shout at the top of your voice, "THERE IS NO GOD! THERE IS NO GOD!"?
Charlie Sheen is exactly what we want in a superstar: bats#!t craziness.
The Argument between Christians and Atheists is a snake chasing its own tail.
Cyberterrorists and Christian hate groups and First Amendment rights, oh my!
Sen. Harry Reed (D-NV) denounces prostitution. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, this is pot.
Agnostics have the most annoying opinions on the Internet.
We're spending money we don't have to kill people we don't know for reasons we don't understand.
NPR doesn't need the government's money or the controversy that goes with it.
Yes, Aflac should have fired him. No, Gilbert shouldn't "have known better."
Teen Sex + Mobile Phones: Two great tastes that taste like felony child pornography together.
BEST. THING. EVER.
Well, maybe not best ever. But they made it for $8600.
Mister Manners teaches you how to properly drop the F-bomb. NSFW!
Mister Manners tells you how to properly drop the F-bomb. To a Disney employee. NSFW!
Bill Nye infuriated a Waco, TX audience by daring to point out that the moon reflects the sun's light.
Atlas Shrugged, Part 1: The movie. Is it the Objectivist Passion of the Christ?
Atheist chaplains in the U.S. Military, As if the foxholes weren't full enough already.
In the wake of Osama Bin Laden's death, a Martin Luther King Jr. misquote causes Internet furor.
A comedy giant. A movie legend. A bluegrass king?
Penn and Teller get new suits. The world rejoices.
What do you get when you put Ellen Page in a skintight leotard? A Super movie!
Because YOU demanded it - Penn's sage advice on when to drop the F-bomb, uncut and in its entirety.
...or maybe Penn just talks about his new hat.
Can you tell the difference between a painting by Pollock and one by a Kindergartener? Don't lie.
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli donates $50,000 to a gay charity in the Westboro Baptist Church's name - $1000 for every church member who protests her show.
Texas comes up with a law to ban groping by the TSA. Feds threaten to close all airports in Texas.
Our religious freedoms are under attack by the intellectual elite! As long as you count dressing like a pirate and worshiping sentient pasta to be religious freedoms, that is.
Penn can't stand it when people label atheist with being fat! Penn is an atheist and fat, who cares?
Penn goes to a Paul McCartney concert and loves the drummer and believes he is better than Ringo. Abe Laboriel Jr. rocked the concert and everyone should google him.
Penn wants to know if Zinc is any good for you (because he's been sucking away on them). Do throat lozenges really work like people claim?
Penn challenges the lyrics of Paul McCartney and Issac Hayes. What do these words really mean?
Penn shares the winners from the first UK show, Fool Us. John Archer and Ben Earl fooled both Penn & Teller and are now headed to Vegas to perform at the Penn & Teller Theater. Check out the magic!
In a rare appearance at Paul McCartney's concert, Sean Lennon's appearance surprises the audience with his distinct resemblance to his father, John Lennon. It's undeniable!
Is there more meaning to the lyrics to Paul McCartney's song Black Bird? Penn explains his interpretation of what Black Bird could mean. A Bird? Civil Rights? Sex? Or Art?
Penn puts Paul and Bob in the ring! Paul McCartney is clean, healthy and plays to perfection. Bob is a character, cowboy hat, pencil stick mustache and full of celebrated wrinkles and chord changes on a dime. Bob reinvents his music in the moment while Paul honors the legacy of his music. Which one do you like?
Penn takes his Miss USA judging duties very seriously and challenges Miss Tennessee's answer of the burning of tye Quran. Was the question asked properly? Penn addresses his judgment!
Penn takes on three shows for TV, Theater, and now Cable. Is he the hardest working man in show business? Last man to reign this title was James Brown and he's dead!
Penn reflects on Wildman Fischer and other legends that have passed. Can crazy lead to genius?
Penn believes that Miss Maryland is a very smart woman and is a great representation of an adult. Although Miss Tennessee's mother defended her daughter against Penn.
Conservapedia attacks Penn on being an atheist and challenges him to a debate. Penn declines the challenge because he believes it comes from a troll site.
Penn shares his thinking behind the rules of judging the swimsuit competition in the 2011 Miss USA. How would you judge this category?
Penn thinks that Porn Morgul, Berth Milton Jr. is a genius. Guests can stay for free in exchange for broadcasting sex.
Penn talks about his new show, "Tell a Lie," on the Discovery Channel coming out this fall. The show is full of outrageous, exciting stunts...but are they safe?
Amy Winehouse joins the heartbreaking "27 Club" of young artists who passed away too early. The reasons these singers lost their lives are tragic. Hank Williams died at 29, so while not part of the club, he was extremely influential in the music industry and also died too young.
Penn doesn't know anything about Casey Anthony and isn't really interested in the murder case that is fascinating America.
Penn shares his thoughts on Comic-Con which he attended for his new show, Penn & Teller: Tell a Lie, on the Discovery Network this fall.
People ask Penn all the time what books to read on Atheism. He highly recommends "Why we Believe in God(s): A Concise guide to the Science of Faith" by J. Anderson Thomson Jr, MD. Penn's book, "God, No!" is out now, too.
Penn's new book God No! has hit America and the publishing world by storm. After reading Penn's book you may discover you are actually an atheist, too.
Penn talks DEFCON 19, the annual Hacker Conference in Las Vegas held at the Rio Hotel. Penn loves hackers and welcomes them to his show...but just don't hack his stuff!
Not everyone takes that well to God, No! (or atheism in general). Imported CNN toolbag Piers Morgan is one of those people.
The Garth Brooks Vegas show is surprisingly not too bad, except for a few GLARING inaccuracies, as Penn explains in today's Penn Point.
Penn reflects on his humble beginnings as a street performer, and how he eventually became a street performer AND author with a live show on the Vegas strip.
If there is one reason to see this film, it is that you get to see Liv Tyler naked. But there are some other good reasons to see The Ledge, too.
Put the kids away because this gets raunchy. Raunchy doesn't have to mean trashy. Penn showcases some of the dirtiest, naughtiest lines you'll ever hear outside of hardcore porn. But you'll find that they are surprisingly lyrical and interesting, too!
It's not just Bachmann and Rick Perry! Why do politicians in America HAVE to be Christian? Or at least claim they are? Penn explains why "Christian" is the magic word in politics.
