Magician Performs Card Escape Magic Tric | Penn & Teller: Fool Us | The CW

Hola. Your Spanish is better than my English. It's a pleasure to be with all of you and to have Penantel in front of me. I hope you enjoy my act. As you can see, my English is not so good. So, if you don't understand something, please ask me. The problem is that I don't know if I can understand you, yes? But you ask me if you want. You, sir. What's your name? Manuel. If I ask you to name a famous magician. Not me. Another one. Name one. Houdini. Houdini. Perfect. Houdini was a great escape artist. In all escapes, we have to risk our life. Today, I don't want to risk mine. You will risk your life for everyone. Come with me, please. A big round of applause. Thanks. Your name, sir? Manuel. Manuel. Perfect. Okay. Manuel, I have this one. Do you know what is this? Handcuff. It's like handcuff, but just for your thumb. Today, I will try to perform an escape. And to prove that it's real, I want to prove with you. Give me your thumb. Have you been cuffed again? No, don't say. No answer. Too many people looking at you. You try to take out, it's impossible. Impossible. You don't believe this. I bought this handkerchief in my country. And the people told me that it belonged to Harry Houdini. It got his initial, JJ. I have to count to three. One, two, three. Not only did he take them off, but he put them back on quickly. Let me try again. One, two, three. He's improvising. He's performing the fingers that change color. First, they go red, then black, and fall off. Let me take out. It is impossible, right? Manuel, set free. Please, Manuel, take this, take this. The key will be in my pocket. If something's wrong, Alison, can you help me? I guess so. Come with me, please. Thanks, Alison. If something's wrong, please take the key and set me free, yes? Okay. Houdini loved the escape act. But not many people know that he loved the card tricks. Not many people know that. I saw in Wikipedia. Today, I will try to do two things at the same time. Try to escape and try to find a card that you will choose. Alison, say stop wherever you want. Stop. Take the card. Look at the card. Show everyone. Manuel is part of everyone. Show to him. Remember? Yes, Alison? Ah, yes. Put the card wherever you want. Say stop. Stop. Put the card here, please. Oh, I already put it in. I ruined it. This is so... Let's do only the escape things, yes? Usually, Houdini don't like the card tricks. Forget the card tricks. Give me this. Forget. No, give me. Open. Extend your hand. I will give you this. Only the escape things. It's the same, but it's easier. Please, fast my thumb tightly. Don't worry about my life. Do you remember the card? Yes. I'm thinking that this is fool us. I will try to fool you. I will try to take out the handcuff and find the card. Two things at the same time. It is impossible. What? I know. But I am a professional. I will do three things. Try to speak in English too. Okay. Manuel, cover with this handkerchief. Yes, and take the deck of cards, but wait. Take out the... Take out. I will try to find, but I am handcuffed. Please, cover. Be careful with this. I don't want that. Look at this. I want to give you the key because I don't want you to think. He used the key. Where is the key? He is the key. He is for you. I will try to find the card in a blink of an eye. It's already. Did you feel anything? I didn't. What a pity. Please, Allison, open the box. Take everything that is inside and show... What is this? Show me. The handcuff? If you want... You've got the handcuff. What is in my finger? Please, take a card. No. What was your card? Six of hearts. I can't believe it because this is a six of hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, Allison and Manuel. Thank you so much, Manuel. Thank you for helping me. Be careful with the deck. Thank you so much. Amazing. That was amazing. Thank you so much. And so enjoyable. Even if it hadn't been so astonishing. I don't understand anything that you say. I think that you are saying a lot of good things about me. I like it. It must be so proud of you in Uruguay. Am I saying that right? Yes, yes. Uruguay. Yes, it's true. Uruguay. Perfect. Uruguay. Yes. And have you always wanted to do magic? Yes, since I was a boy. Always I was a boy. I'm glad you clarified that. Yes, okay. But when I was... Oh boy. Yes, your English is better than mine. But first I want to do a detective. Detective? Yes, and then I found the magic and it's my passion. I'm glad you switched because I feel like you're too funny to be a detective. Maybe, maybe. Okay, let's find out if you fooled Penn Teller. Let's. Boys. Daniel, the first thing, very first thing I said to Teller when I turned to him was that's a perfect routine. Thank you so much. It's an absolutely perfect routine. Thank you so much. It has the most important thing in magic, which is the ending is completely a surprise and then totally inevitable. I mean, when we watch magicians work, you may not know what they're doing, but you know they're doing something. There's not a moment in your routine where you think he's doing something. There's no telegraphing. Your acting is superb, perfect all the way through. This is something that I don't usually do because even though we love showing magicians on TV, I must tell you that I do feel the competition and I do want to win. This is a very rare case where we think we figured it out and we so hope we are wrong because I want you to have fooled us. You might notice I'm not speaking at all in code. This act is so perfect. I don't want to give the slightest little crack in it. I don't want anybody at home to go, oh, I know what he means now. I know what he did now. I want this to just live on as a jewel and perfect, but we got to play the game. So Teller has written down how you did it. He will show you and please, please have us be wrong. I really hope. Damn it. That's right. Damn it. That's right. So good. Thank you. No, but thank you so much. Teller, thank you. Ben, thank you so much. That was so wonderful. Thank you. Bye. Uruguay is a small country in South America. It's a small country, but a big heart. There aren't a lot of professional magician. I've been doing magic like 30 years. I start when I was 10 years old. The first trick I learned, my father teach me. He was an amateur magician. We start to watch magic television shows. We bought a VCR and we watch and record the magician. And then we look in slow motion and try to find where is the trick and take notes. And then I try to repeat. People forgive a mistake, but don't forgive when a show is boring. I live in the moment, so I don't know what will happen tonight. But I do know it will not be boring.