![]() I grew up crazy catholic, like the SC justices. This is what christians believe, if women get to go to heaven, at all. Everyone at the table agreed: my moms’ codependent reward? Endless breaking up fights between my dad and aunt in heaven. I recently attended a funeral for my aunt, and the priest kept railing on and on about how earth is “not our final destination” and after during the luncheon my late aunts’ family put together, my cousin announced that my mom, my dad and aunt are all together now and my mom was still acting as a buffer because my aunt and dad never got along. How many times do we need confirmation that christians are not for women, children, or anyone who doesn’t fit a very narrow mould? Why do women still go to church when the church oppresses the shit out of us and expects endless codependency even in the afterlife? The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays (8 p.m. And we are always running at the Penn & Teller Theater in Las Vegas. We have our 10th season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and we're very excited about that. You and Teller have been performing together for almost 50 years. Never miss a story - sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. We're not actually putting in "Karma Chameleon," but there are a lot of thoughts. Teller and I write new stuff all the time and all the times going to rehearsals and talk, there were all sorts of tangential stuff. RELATED: Celebrities Who've Won The Masked Singerĭid The Masked Singer inspire any new tricks or different ways to approach your act? What could be more flattering than that? I don't think there's anything more flattering than that. Were you offended by getting guessed as puppet pairs Bert and Ernie and Statler and Waldorf? I do an awful lot of music, so it was wonderful to be able to be on a show that celebrates music. I play bebop jazz and every night before the show I played for an hour as the audience is coming in and I performed as a bass player, CBGB with punk bands, with jazz bands. RELATED VIDEO: Christie Brinkley Shares Why Doing The Masked Singer 'Was Life-Changing for the Whole Family' That's one of the things that made this show so fun, is that Teller and I don't get to sing, and Teller and I both love music. At least for most of the show, we're out there where people can see us. When we are doing our magic show, it's entirely our show. How did being on stage as Hydra compare to doing your magic act? He had to do those two characters and switch off, sometimes in mid-line. Teller was the one doing the real vocal showing off. And the other character was just Teller doing his own voice. One of the characters we called Rex because he was trying to do Rex Harrison, the old, old, old singer. So Teller had to really do the other two characters. They're sweet and they're kind, and everything is done in a pleasant way.ĭid you consciously decide to try to make it sound like three people were under the costume? The Masked Singer, the judges aren't assholes. We have so many shows on TV that are built on snottiness and cruelty, and I don't think that our culture needs that right now. If we are asked, we say, "yes." That being said, we were so thrilled to do The Masked Singer. We have to put a quarter of a million people into the Penn & Teller Theater every year to keep doing that, we do an awful lot of television. We are the longest-running headliners in Vegas history. PENN JILLETTE: We do most everything as a duo. What made you want to go on The Masked Singer as a duo? Jillette recalls sharing the small space with his longtime partner, his reaction to being guessed as various Muppets and how doing the show inspired new magic tricks. "We knew that if we were two people, we would be busted right away, and we also knew we couldn't get into one person costume," Jillette explains. The duo even had the judges thinking there might be three singers under that three-headed dragon outfit. Teller, 74, doesn't typically talk during his magic act with Jillette - which they do together at the Penn & Teller Theater in Las Vegas and on their CW show Fool Us - but he spoke and sang as Hydra on The Masked Singer.
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