( Penn Jillette mentions this incident in the commentary for the film, but does not mention the show, instead stating that T. Sean works for a popular network comedy show.

Fans of Half Japanese include Penn Jillette, who helped the band release some of their albums on his label, 50 Skidillion Watts, and Kurt Cobain, who had them open for Nirvana on the group's 1993 tour.

Notable actors appearing in a recurring or guest star capacity include Rebecca Romijn ( as supermodel Adrienne Barker, Spade's TV wife ), Brian Dennehy ( as Dennis ' father who gets engaged to Nina in an episode ), David Cross ( as Elliot's younger brother who pretends to be mentally disabled ), Rhoda Gemignani, Brooke Shields as Nina's younger sister, Stephen Root, Steve Carell, Tom Kenny, Dana Carvey, Ana Gasteyer, Jim Wise, Tiffani Thiessen, Andy Dick, Gina Gershon, Dave Foley, Ali Larter, Penn Jillette, Kevin Sorbo, Kathy Lee Gifford, Mark Hamill, Valerie Perrine, George Lucas, Amy Sedaris, Kadeem Hardison, Willie Garson, Melissa Rivers, French Stewart, Carmen Electra, Ray Liotta, Snoop Dogg, Judy Greer, Cheri Oteri, and Paul Parducci as Deke " The Dekester " Williams.

" Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, stated, " the biggest break through done in our lifetime was David Blaine's ' Street Magic ,' where his idea was to do really simple tricks but to concentrate ... to turn the camera around on the people watching instead of the people doing.

") Jillette made a habit of linking many words in his online column to wacky sites that generally had nothing to do with the actual words.

In 2008, Jillette was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, paired with professional dancer Kym Johnson.

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

The group's first tour ensued to promote The Tunes of Two Cities, hosted by Penn Jillette.

Penn Jillette would come out between songs telling long intentionally pointless stories.

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" at the contestants ; eventually, Bergeron and panelist Penn Jillette joined in, and the game was eventually won by the returning champion.

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Unfortunately, the company's IT employee Hal ( Penn Jillette ) detects this unauthorized entry and summons computer security officer Eugene " The Plague " Belford ( Fisher Stevens ) to deal with the problem.

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American political and social commentators Penn Jillette and Keith Olbermann are known for wearing waistcoats.

Unknown to the crew, Roy had smuggled a cheetah named Chico aboard the vessel ( Penn Jillette suggested on his radio show that it was an ocelot ).

# redirect Penn Jillette

Penn Fraser Jillette ( born March 5, 1955 ) is an American illusionist, comedian, musician, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free market capitalism.

( For example: " Penn Jillette is the half of Penn & Teller that's detained at airports.

Starting in 2003, Jillette, along with his partner Teller, began producing and hosting the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

He stated that he is a " show biz wimp " and decided to stop doing the show so he could spend more time with his kids Zolten Penn Jillette and Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette.

On May 24, 2010, Jillette began a bi-weekly show on Revision3 called Penn Point.

Jillette is an atheist, libertarian ( he has stated that he may consider himself to be an anarcho-capitalist ), and skeptic, as well as an adherent to Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy, as stated on his Penn Says podcast.

Since their act is not normally associated with a frequent use of profanity, Jillette explains their choice of using the term bullshit in the opening episode: if they referred to people as frauds or liars, they could be sued for slander, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of chicanery, but as " vulgar abuse " is not considered slanderous, referring to them as assholes or motherfuckers ostensibly expresses an opinion rather than a statement of fact and is legally safer for them.

Jillette was the primary voice announcer for the U. S .- based cable network Comedy Central in the 1990s.

For a brief time in 1997, Jillette wrote bi-weekly dispatches for the search engine Excite. com.

In July 1999, Jillette was granted for the " Jill-Jet ", a hot-tub jet specially angled for a woman's pleasure.

On the Penn Radio show, telling the listeners about the photo shoot for the Playboy article, Jillette mentioned that he has a Jill-Jet installed in a tub at " The Slammer ", and that several of his female friends and friends ' spouses enjoy it a lot, but he is not aware of any other installations of a water jet in such a configuration anywhere else.

The addition, designed by Outside The Lines Studio and built by Crisci Custom Builders between October 2003 and June 2004 as part of his Las Vegas home, was named Vintage Nudes Studios by Jillette for playing cards that he had collected.

Jillette welcomes and even encourages open discussion, debate, and proselytizing on the issue of God's existence, believing that the issue is too important for opinions about it to remain private.

These guests have included Penn Jillette ( for his partner, Teller ), Shannon Elizabeth ( for her then-husband ), and football player LaVar Arrington, for his brother.

Penn Jillette has stated that those being interviewed know what show the interview is for and its purpose.

In Penn & Teller's first season of their documentary television show, Bullshit, Hill was interviewed and her motivations were questioned by Penn Jillette and Patrick Moore, a former founder of Greenpeace, both of whom criticized her position on tree cutting for paper as a " stupid waste " by pointing out that medical textbooks and works of art are made of paper, and the irony of her treehouse being made of lumber from cut trees.

Banks and friend Penn Jillette also collaborated in writing Love Tapes – an unconventional love story for the stage which premiered February 2005 at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood.

Penn Jillette is a fan of Blenheim Ginger Ale and wore a Blenheim shirt on the cover of Wired Magazine.

Jillette felt the new editor was trying to tell him how to write his column and what topics he should be covering.

# When Jillette first began performing, his mother told him to get a manicure because people would be looking at his hands.

Because of this, and because Carson died days after the film was screened at Sundance, Penn Jillette decided to dedicate this film to his memory.