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Born March 5, 1955 - American illusionist, comedian, musician, actor, and writer. At the age of 16, Penn read the entire Bible before becoming an atheist. The pastor kept him in a youth religious group for about a year until he told his parents, “Your son is better at converting children to atheism than I am to Christianity,” and asked them not to come to church again. Gillett became disenchanted with traditional illusionist acts, which were sometimes passed off as genuine magic. But at the age of eighteen, he saw the tricks of James Randi, was fascinated by his approach to magic, which openly recognized deception as entertainment, and not as some kind of supernatural force. Gillett regularly admits that she loves Randy more than anyone else in the world, except for her family members. After graduating from high school in 1973, Penn worked with his classmate Michael Moshen to develop a juggling performance. In 1974, Gillett graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. On April 10 of the same year, he met Teller through their mutual acquaintance, Weir Crismer. They became a trio called the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society and began performing in Amherst as well as San Francisco. In 1981, when Penn and Teller separated from Chrismer, they began to successfully perform as a duo of illusionists Penn and Teller on Off Broadway, and later on Broadway itself, often staging national tours. Despite success at Off-Broadway, in 1988 Penn joined the musical trio Bongo Bass and Bob (Penn played bass, Dean J. Seal played bongos, and Rob (Bob) Elk (Running Elk) - On guitar). Rob and Dean formed the comedy duo Acapella after the group disbanded due to Penn's busyness in filming, releasing only one album. In the 1990s, Gillett was the primary announcer on the American cable network Comedy Central.
Gillett was for some time the author of PC / Computing, now defunct, writing a regular column from 1990 to 1994. In 1994, Gillett bought a house in Las Vegas and named it "The Slammer". This home has been featured in dozens of television shows and programs and was designed by his friend Colin Summers. In addition, at his home, Penn created the Vintage Nu Studio, designed by Outside The Lines Studio and built by Crisci Custom Builders by July 2004. This studio is designed for card games from the collection of cards collected by Gillett, the design of the studio is specially selected to match the collection and has a kind of "magic" meaning. Gillett uses it as a music studio, previously broadcasting Free FM live there, and has been used to broadcast Penn's Sunday School since 2012. In 1996, Penn had a cameo appearance as Drell, head of the Council of Mages, on Sabrina, the Little Witch. He and Teller appeared in the pilot with Debbie Harry as the third member of the Council. The series was created by Gillett's friend Nell Scovell. Penn and Teller appear as comedians Ribot and Zooti in Babylon 5's Season 5 episode of Day of the Dead, scripted by Neil Gaiman.
For a short time in 1997, Gillett wrote mailing lists for the search engine Excite. He ended each column with a meaningful commentary pertaining to their creative team with Teller (For example: "Penn Gillett is the half of Penn and Teller who is being held up at airports"). Gillett got into the habit of associating words with his internet column of "wacky" sites, which usually had nothing to do with real words. These columns are no longer available on the Excite site, but are published with permission from the above site at PennAndTeller.
From 2003 to 2010, together with his stage partner Teller, he organized and hosted the show "Penn and Teller: Bullshit!" on Showtime. The purpose of the show was to analyze cultural phenomena, debunk myths, criticize people and aspects of society that they considered "nonsense" .
In 2005, he co-produced and co-wrote the film Aristocrats with actor Paul Provenza. The film received the status of a documentary, it describes the life of "aristocrats" in the form of a dirty joke.
From January 3, 2006 to March 2, 2007, Gillett teamed up with fellow atheist, skeptic and juggler Michael Goudea to broadcast live on Free FM. The most prominent recurring segments of the broadcast were Monkey Tuesday and Ferret Attraction. On March 2, 2007, Gillett announced that he would no longer be involved in radio broadcasts, as he considers himself a "weakling in show business," and decided to spend more time with his children Zolten and Moxie.
During the 2006/2007 television season, Gillett starred in the primetime game show Identity on NBC-TV.
In 2009, Gillett read part of the lyrics to a song by Pakistani rapper Adil Omar. The song is called "Spookshow" and is produced by DJ Solo of Soul Assassins. Lyricism condemns religious extremism and encourages skepticism.
As of September 4, 2011, Gillett's book God No! Symptoms That You May Become an Atheist and Other Magic Tales "lasted a week on the New York Times bestseller list.
As an avid bassist, Penn often accompanies jazz pianist Mike Jones, who opens a magic show in Las Vegas. Penn and Teller were named "Magicians of the Year" by The Magic Castle in 1995 and 2012. On April 5, 2013, Penn and Teller were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the live performance category. Their star is the 2494th in a row and is next to the star of Harry Houdini.
Since 2014 he has been taking part in a hidden camera show in the genre of "street magic" (Penn Jilette's Street Cred).

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