Voting Station

Penn & Teller

Please vote to return to collections.

Magicians

The Resume

    (1975- )
    Teller's birth name is Raymond Teller (legally changed to just Teller)
    Televised specials include 'Penn & Teller Go Public,' 'Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular,' 'Penn & Teller's Home Invasion,' 'Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread,' 'Don't Try This At Home,' 'The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller' and 'Penn & Teller's Phobophilia'
    Wrote 'Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends,' 'How To Play With Your Food' and 'How To Play In Traffic'
    Starred in 'Penn & Teller Get Killed'
    Teller owns a rare American passport with just his one name
    Appeared on 'Saturday Night Live,' 'Howard Stern,' 'David Letterman,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' 'Conan O'Brien,' 'Live with Regis and Kathie Lee' and 'Jay Leno'
    Penn dated Julie Brown and Robin Quivers
    Both are outspoken atheists
    Penn Jillette (March 5, 1955- , born in Greenfield, Massachusetts)
    Teller (February 14, 1948- , born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Why they might be annoying:

    Teller rarely talks in public.
    Penn's left ring finger nail is painted red.
    Many of their tricks have a disgusting shock value, like loads of cockroaches or oozing fluids.
    Penn decorated his home in Las Vegas to look like a prison on the outside.
    Teller uses the pretentious one name.

Why they might not be annoying:

    They reveal magic secrets to the public.
    Before the internet became popular, Penn had a BBS (dial-up computer) in New York City.
    Teller graduated Amherst College and was a Latin teacher.
    They both are skeptics and question religious beliefs.
    Teller said in an interview with the New England Skeptics Society: 'Atheists do look for answers to existence itself. They just don't make them up.'
    They ranked #88 in Forbes Power List (2000).

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 13 Votes: 15.38% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 37 Votes: 13.51% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 82 Votes: 43.90% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 156 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 22 Votes: 68.18% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 24 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 21 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 34 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 52 Votes: 42.31% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 100 Votes: 68.00% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 60 Votes: 36.67% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 120 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 204 Votes: 54.90% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 366 Votes: 42.62% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 539 Votes: 47.12% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 590 Votes: 50.34% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 824 Votes: 54.13% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 8787 Votes: 38.99% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 4175 Votes: 59.83% Annoying