Penn Jillette Net Worth

Penn Jillette's Quotes

• [on his son's name] Zolten is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
• [on the environment, June 20, 2008] Every bit of my bullshit detector goes off like crazy over global warming, and every fucking thing Al Gore says. He seems to me like a lying sack of shit who's wrong about everything.
• There are magic tricks that look astonishing, and that - if you knew the secret - you would think are a little easy. Magic strips that out in an almost burlesque caricature way: to conceal how it's put together. When someone in music plays an effortless riff - when you hear John Coltrane play something that just flows out of the sax easily and comfortably - the fact that he was doing tedious work to get there is supposed to disappear, exactly the same as a magic trick.
• 'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
• Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

Interesting Facts about Penn Jillette

1. With partner Teller, half of comedy/magic team Penn & Teller.
2. Owned an over-sized sport-utility vehicle painted bright pink (he nicknamed it "Pink Death"), with a Nevada vanity license plate that read "6SIX6". He reportedly spent several thousand dollars on a customized sound system for it. He sold it in 2005, to raise money for J.R.E.F. (the James Randi Education Foundation).
3. Is a Cato Institute H.L. Mencken Research Fellow.
4. Nail of the ring finger of his left hand is always painted.
5. Plays the upright bass in his show in Vegas. He also helped compose some of the songs for the show.
6. Never knew how to play poker, until 8 days before his appearance on Celebrity Poker Showdown (2003) on July 15, 2004.
7. The original announcer for cable channel Comedy Central.
8. Jokes that the reason for him painting his fingernail is because he "Shot a man for asking him personal questions!". The real reason is that it is a joke between him and his mother.
9. Daughter Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette was born on Friday, June 3, 2005.
10. Never drinks or smokes.
11. Son Zolten Penn Jillette was born 22 May 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces and joins his 11-month-old sister, Moxie Crimefighter Jillette.
12. Knows how to do fire-eating, and has shown this talent on an episode of his game show, Identity (2006).
13. High school classmates with Michael Moschen.
14. Attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
15. Owns a pink Mini Cooper with a vanity license plate reading ATHEIST.
16. Claims to have no facial recall. He says he even ran into his mother once after a show and did not recognize her.
17. Was a performer at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
18. Hosting season 8 of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003). [June 2010]
19. Had his first work of fiction titled "Sock" published. [July 2004]
20. Partnered with Kym Johnson Herjavec on the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars (2005). [March 2008]