July 30, 2014 9:20AM # Tonight, “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE Cato Mencken Fellows Penn Jillette and Teller launch a new hour-long show, “[Penn & Teller: Fool Us](http://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us/about),” tonight at 8 p.m. on the CW television network. Here’s an enthusiastic review from [Slashfilm](http://www.slashfilm.com/penn-teller-will-bring-fool-us-to-the-u-s-on-the-cw/): > Magician duo **Penn & Teller** are finally set to bring one of my favorite UK TV series, ***Penn & Teller: Fool Us***, to broadcast in the States.… > > > One of my favorite UK television television series was a show called ***Penn & Teller: Fool Us***. It was basically a competition series where the world’s best magicians would perform in hopes of fooling Penn & Teller. After the performance, the magic duo would try to vaguely explain how the trick was done (without fully exposing the magic). If they were fooled, the magicians would get a gig as their starting act in Vegas. > > > Each show would also have Penn & Teller do a trick or two for the television audience. I’m a magic geek and this is probably one of my favorite magic series to ever air. I’ve shown it to a lot of non-magic geek friends, and they all ended up loving it. Until 8 p.m., you can listen to Cato’s [podcast with Penn Jillette](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/lying-service-truth) recorded in 2011. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).