Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic - Softcover

Penn Jillette; Teller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572972939 ISBN 13: 9781572972933

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 1997

Synopsis

Collects practical jokes, tricks, and anecdotes for the armchair magician, including the "eternal card trick," "tattoo of blood," and "off the cuff"

About this title

Review:

While Star Trek fans, role-playing game fans, and even comic book fans eventually find each other and develop something like social groups, teenage magicians are, due to the rarity of their particular geek kink, more likely to remain socially retarded than any other group. That isolation and talent for magic allowed Penn & Teller a great deal of time to devote to revenge, mayhem, and making others look foolish. Now they share their techniques, as well as the wisdom one gains from acquiring happiness only after being ostracized and ridiculed, in Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic. A mixture of tricks you can do in hotel rooms, cars, and planes, some ill-advised methods for screwing with the minds of airport security personnel, and a series of memoirs of the unusual people they've met on their B-venue journeys around the world, How to Play in Traffic is not only funny (as one would expect from Penn & Teller) but also oddly insightful.

About the Author:

Penn & Teller, America's most ingenious pranksters, are the authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends and How to Play with Your Food. Over the last twenty years, they've scammed audiences on Broadway and all over the world. They've appeared on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with David Letterman," the "Today" show, and "Saturday Night Live." Their articles have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, The New Yorker, Time, Spy, and numerous podunk publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1572972939
• ISBN 13: 9781572972933
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240