{"id":1732,"date":"2008-12-17T08:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.ticketcenter.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2008-12-17T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:29:55","slug":"penn-and-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/las-vegas\/penn-and-teller\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn and Teller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably no one alive who hasn&#8217;t heard of, or seen the magic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 80&#8217;s and beyond they&#8217;ve wowed us with their talent and skill, as well as their attitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a> began their performing life as part of a trio, billed as Asparagus Valley Cultural Society Playing in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The act at that time was a bit more silly, a bit less edgy than it is today, but still a hit by all standards.<\/p>\n<p>By the mid 80&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a> were getting far better than average reviews for an Off Broadway show, and won prestigious awards such as the Emmy for a special on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Television was next for them, of course, in the natural progression of things, and they made their way across the Late Night with Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Jay Leno&#8217;s Tonight Show circuit, as well as numerous other television appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The duo is well known for the edginess of their acts, which often feature gory type tricks that are accomplished in a humorous way, as well as their exposure of frauds, interesting and amusing pranks and their Showtime Network television show, entitled <strong>Bullshit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5iFBtRESzRg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a> have evolved from their quirky little show, into something far more interesting and well worth taking in.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at the Rio in Vegas just three days after Christmas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a> will amaze you.<\/p>\n<p>Grab your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/penn_and_teller_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">tickets now to see <strong>Penn and Teller<\/strong><\/a> in Vegas this New Years season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably no one alive who hasn&#8217;t heard of, or seen the magic of Penn and Teller. Throughout the 80&#8217;s and beyond they&#8217;ve wowed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,72],"tags":[762],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas","category-theater","tag-penn-and-teller"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}