Favorite guests on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee, Penn & Teller have made dozens of talk and variety show appearances. They've also performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Today Show and Saturday Night Live.

Penn & Teller have acted in several popular series, guest-starring as "Drell and Skippy" in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, as attorneys "Fenn & Geller" on The Drew Carey Show, and on Friends, Dharma & Greg, Babylon 5, Home Improvement and The Simpsons.

Their 1985 PBS special, Penn & Teller Go Public, won two Emmys and the International Golden Rose. Other television projects have included the recent Emmy-nominated variety series Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular, the special Penn & Teller's Home Invasion, the SHOWTIME Original Picture Penn & Teller’s Invisible Thread, the NBC special Don't Try This at Home, the PBS Children's series Behind the Scenes, and for Britain's Channel 4, The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller and Penn & Teller's Phobophilia. Penn & Teller Get Killed, directed by Arthur Penn, saw the pair in their big screen debut. They can currently be seen in Walt Disney's Fantasia 2000.

Penn & Teller have also written two best-selling books, Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends and How to Play With Your Food . Their newest book, How to Play in Traffic , is a collection of practical jokes, miracles and anecdotes that makes travel funnier than ever before.

The duo serves as Visiting Scholars at MIT, which is the highest honor bestowed by the school, and have lectured at the Smithsonian Institute and Oxford University. Penn & Teller were recently named two of the funniest people alive in Entertainment Weekly's "50 Greatest Comedians Today" issue.

Most Requested Topics:

• Talking to the Dead: Look into the practices of popular psychics of today reveals how those who claim to be in contact with the dead.
  
• Alternative Medicine: A look at chiropractic medicine, reflexology, magnet therapy, and a trip to an alternative medicine fair that ends in a "sting" operation at a crowded mall.
  
• Alien Abductions: This show features three days spent at a UFO convention and a visit to an alien abduction group therapy session. It also explores the psychological explanations, and the influences of pop culture, on the typical abduction story.
  
• End of the World: A look at "The Sky is Falling" people from Nostradamus and his misinterpreted quatrains, to the "Left Behind" publishing phenomenon, to various crackpot rapture groups. Also featured is a survivalist who has converted 40 school buses into an elaborate underground compound that he and his friends will escape to when the bombs start dropping.
  
• Second Hand Smoke: We'll go to a hearing in NYC, where the dangers of second-hand smoke, and legislating human behavior, is being hotly debated and stage a hidden-camera sting that shows just how rabid people are about this topic.
  
• Feng Shui: Penn & Teller put three Feng Shui home consultants to the test and feature a visit to a Feng Shui hairstylist.
  
• Bottled Water: The craze of bottled water is a national obsession but tap water is usually safer for you, and often better tasting too. Using a hidden camera, we'll take a look at the obsession.
  
• Creationism: This episode features a look into a Georgia school board debate.
  
• Self-Helpless: Motivational speakers, books, videos, relationship seminars, do they really help? We'll take a look. Also, the popular motivational activity of fire walking - which is no more dangerous than walking across hot sand at the beach--is debunked.
  
• ESP: We'll attend a class in "remote viewing," a form of ESP that is all the rage. We'll test the teacher and the students to reveal that the "hits" they get are so vague, it's all nonsense.
  
• Eat This! Penn & Teller will try to prove that many diet products and diet claims are complete nonsense. Also, a look at the obsession with products that claim to be healthier for you such as organic foods, fat free foods, etc.
  
• Environmental Hysteria: Here Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a look at Greenpeace's activities.

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