Starting in 2003, Jillette, along with Teller, began producing and hosting the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime. The columns are no longer available on the current site, but have been republished with permission at. (For example: 'Penn Jillette is the half of Penn & Teller that's detained at airports.') 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.

Each column ended with a pithy comment identifying which of the Penn & Teller duo he was. The show was created by Jillette's friend Nell Scovell.įor a brief time in 1997, Jillette wrote bi-weekly dispatches for the search engine. He and Teller both appeared in the pilot with Debbie Harry as the third member of the Council. Starting in 1996, Jillette had a recurring role on Sabrina the Teenage Witch as Drell, the head of the Witches' Council. In 2016, he sold 'The Slammer' so that his family could move to a less remote location. He formerly recorded music there, and conducted his radio show at the studio inside 'The Slammer'. It has been featured in dozens of television shows and articles and was designed by his friend Colin Summers. In 1994, Jillette purchased a house in the Las Vegas Valley and dubbed it 'The Slammer'. Jillette was the primary voice announcer for the U.S.-based cable network Comedy Central in the 1990s. Jillette was a contributor to the now-defunct PC/Computing magazine, having a regular back-section column between 19. In later years, Jillette would contribute to two documentary films about the Residents.

During one performance, an audience member assaulted Jillette while he was handcuffed to the wheelchair. The show was designed to appear to fall apart as it progressed Jillette pretended to grow angrier with the crowd, and lighting effects and music would become increasingly chaotic, all building up to the point where he was dragged off stage and returned, handcuffed to a wheelchair, to deliver his last monologue. The performance (titled The Mole Show and based on their 'Mole trilogy' of albums) featured Jillette coming out between songs telling long and intentionally pointless stories. Jillette served as host and presenter of the first touring performance by avant-garde band the Residents in 1983. In 1981, he and Teller teamed up as Penn & Teller, and went on to do a successful Off Broadway and later Broadway theatre show called 'Penn & Teller' that toured nationally. The three then formed a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society which played in Amherst and San Francisco. In 1974, he was introduced to Teller by Weir Chrisemer, a mutual friend. In 1973, Jillette graduated from Ringling Bros. Jillette worked with high school classmate Michael Moschen in developing and performing a juggling act during the years immediately following their 1973 graduation. Jillette regularly acknowledges Randi as the one person on the planet he loved the most besides members of his family. At age eighteen, he saw a show by illusionist James Randi, and became enamored of his approach to magic that openly acknowledged deception as entertainment rather than a mysterious supernatural power. Jillette became disenchanted with traditional illusionist acts that presented the craft as authentic magic, such as The Amazing Kreskin on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He was subsequently asked to leave the church, after asking questions in a youth group that purportedly also made skeptics of his peers. Jillette became an atheist in his early teens after reading the Bible.

His mother, Valda Rudolph Jillette (née Parks 1909–2000), was a secretary, and his father, Samuel Herbert Jillette (1912–1999), worked at Greenfield's Franklin County Jail. Jillette was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

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