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1: Penn Jillette
Entertainer, TV star, provocateur
Is Vegas a good place to be famous? It is. It's like New York or LA in that people don't gawk. If I walk into Starbucks, somebody might say hi to me, say hi to my daughter—some people even call her by name—but they're cool about it.
Does that confuse your daughter—strangers knowing her name? When you're a 5-year-old, a lot of people you don't know call you by name. And if we still lived in villages (like we're supposed to) everybody would know her name. So, in her mind, no, nothing's out of the ordinary.
Let's talk about your TV show Bullshit! Will you ever run out of theories to debunk and people to expose? If you build a kingdom on bullshit, you're not in danger of running out of it. Our producer says that Teller and I can take any subject in the news and do a credible show on it. Sure, we like to have a villain, something to call "bullshit" on, but if we don't, we can depart from that model.
Are there any groups you won't go after? We haven't tackled Scientology because Showtime doesn't want us to. Maybe they have deals with individual Scientologists—I'm not sure. And we haven't tacked Islam because we have families.