These are edited excerpts from the conversation.ġ. Here, the author, magician and co-star of the CW’s “ Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” talks about how he takes his watermelon, why he prefers skepticism to cynicism and how he convinced Teller to pay for half his new bass. Writing fiction feels like very much the same thing.” “Now, I don’t want to lie and say I don’t love being onstage - I love it, and I love the applause, and I love the laughs - that is the thing I like most in the world, other than putting the stuff together that I’m going to put onstage. “My happiest moments are Teller and I getting together and figuring out what we want to say, what we’re feeling with a trick, with a bit, and to figure out how to do that,” he said. Whether he’s writing a novel or writing a bit, Jillette said, he’s always trying to tell a story. That the dice bring him luck sends him a new philosophy of leaving decisions both big and small up to chance. Jillette’s latest novel, “Random,” is about a young man who inherits his father’s crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice - and other dangerous measures - to dig himself out. “I think if you got either Teller or I to be completely honest, we would probably tell you that what we’re doing in the Penn & Teller show is writing.” “The first thing I wanted to be was a writer,” he said in a recent phone interview. He once wrote a short story, for example, that his longtime partner, Teller, thought would make a good magic trick, so they turned it into a bit called King of Animal Traps. Penn Jillette keeps files on his computer for magic tricks and others for fiction, but he keeps them together and the distinction between them is not always clear.
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