Penn & Teller Fool Us: Kostya Kimlat's IMPOSSIBLE Card Trick // Season 5

(upbeat music) (audience applauding) - Welcome back to Fool Us. Our next magician has been to Fool Us before. So let's look at it again for the first time. (exploding) (door opening) - Hello, I'm Kostya Kimlat and I want you to think like a magician. Three years ago I cheated on Penn and Teller. (audience applauding) And I never expected them to react the way they did. - I hate you. (laughs) Let's put that aside. You

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ed Teller. (Audience applauds) - It was the most stressful and surprising experience at the same time. (laughs) For three years I've been thinking, what could I present for Penn and Teller a second time?

In magic there is a method and an effect. The reason the guys got so angry is because I did an effect they knew using a method they didn't know. This time I'm performing a trick that I created when I was 18 and have been practicing ever since. So far, only two magicians have fooled them twice. I hope I'm the lucky number three. (Audience applauds) - Welcome back to the Fool Us stage, Kostya Kimlat. (audience cheering and applauding) - Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks Penn and Teller. Wow, it's amazing to be back here in Las Vegas.

Alyson, I'd love for you to come with me here. - Sure. - I'm so happy you're here. - Oh, I'm happy you're here. - I have to tell you that performing for these kids is one of the most difficult things a magician can do. - Or me, yes. - That's true, well no, no, if I were doing magic for you or anyone else in the theater there would be no stress. I'll show you, look, I'll have you pick a

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. - Well. - Whenever you want, say enough. (haggling cards) - Stop. - Remember that card. Well? - Yes. - Do you have it? - Yes. - It's okay, because I don't know what it is. - Well. - Well?

But the moment you say it out loud, your card will fly out of the deck and I'll catch it with my fingertips. - Well. - It will happen in the blink of an eye. Are you ready? - Yes. - Alyson name your card. - Six of clubs. (snap) Wow. - The six of clubs. Pretty cool, right? (audience applauding) - Really great. Amazing. - That's what I mean, right? You are impressed, you are amazed. I'm having fun, that's what it's all about, but these guys look, they're not fooled, right? They know exactly how my fingers manipulated the cards.

They know where it was. They know how he flew off the deck. If I'm going to fool these guys with the same trick, I have to do more than just sleight of hand. I have to be smart. I have to be clever. You might even have to lie a little. - (gasping) Shocking. (audience laughing) - I know. So I'll do the same trick for them, but Penn, do you remember what happened the last time I was here? - Yes. - Yes, he grabbed a chair. - I know, I don't think I can protect you very well. - No, I need you here as my bodyguard, please.

Last time, Teller sat there laughing and did nothing. So how about this? You will stay with me at least as my emotional support. - Yes. And I would love if the gentlemen could join us here. Please everyone welcome Penn and Teller to the stage. (Audience applauding) Alyson, come. How good to see you sir. - Hello you bastard rat. - Ha ha, how good to see you. Good to see you. So, let's get comfortable. Gentlemen, I'll do the same trick to you that I just did to Alyson. I'm going to ask you to pick a card and then I'll catch it with my fingertips.

But I have to use a different method. And I know that the moment I tell them that, her brain starts thinking of all the possible ways she could do this. So right now, Teller is burning my hands. That means he's watching my every move. He's making sure I don't trade this deck of cards for a different one. One with all the same cards. Meanwhile, Penn is burning the cards. He's watching the corners to make sure he hasn't cut any to make it easier to get to them. Or maybe he files the edges to make one card stand out from the others.

Maybe, maybe I'll use glue on the edges of my fingers to make it easier to catch that card. That would be smart. Or better yet, I have magnets at my fingertips that allow me to capture that card. Yes, maybe I will. Maybe I will. Maybe it won't. That's not my place to say. So all of these possibilities are there for you to consider. Maybe I'm telling you the truth and maybe I'm not. Now, I know that doesn't seem fair but hey, you guys started this game. (laughs) So, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to shuffle these cards but I won't put them all the way in.

Leaving some of these letters isolated and out of my control. I'm also going to review slowly so Penn knows I'm not influencing his choice with Jedi mind tricks. Penn, please say enough. (noise) - Stop. - Are you happy there? - One more. - One more? How is that? - Good. Teller, are you feeling okay about all this? Sure, why not, right? Now, very important, before we continue, I want you to make sure that your card is nowhere near the top or the bottom. Which is somewhere within the expanse. And Alyson, can you... I'm sorry you didn't see the card. - No. - Now you know how I feel. - Yes. (laughs) - So, are you satisfied?

It's in the diffusion, very good. Now, at this moment there are multiple realities happening here on stage. Look at Penn and Teller, they're focused on the trick method and trying to figure out what I lied to them about. But you and the audience don't care about the method, so you can experience the effect. - Yes. - Very good, look at the joy on his face, right? -UH Huh. - Now, while for you, the card flew out of the deck and I caught it with the tips of my fingers. For you gentlemen, my fingers will dig into the deck and I will capture your card. (sigh) (noise) Penn, what was your card? - King of swords. (riffling) - Your card the king of spades. (audience exclaiming and applauding) Thank you very much, gentlemen.

Thank you so much. Thank my Lord. (Audience applauding) - I can understand why he wanted to hit you. - Yes. - Yes, that was amazing. - Thank you so much. - And it's very frustrating not knowing how you did that. - Yes, well, it's part of the magic. Part of its beauty. - So am I right in thinking you've been working on that trick for 17 years? - Yes, I have been practicing it for 17 years. - Wow, what was it that when you were 17 you said, yes, it's ready? - You know, I know, I just had no life.

I always played with cards. I always have my hand. I'm always practicing. I created it to fool magicians but I showed it clandestinely, I didn't show it to many people. And for three years I've been thinking what I can do to get back and I thought this is it. - That's all. - Yes. - Oh, was it stressful coming back a second time? - I was really looking forward to it. I really wanted to see their faces and spend time with them on stage here, so this has been the moment that I'm really excited about. - And how has your life changed since the first time? - You know, the first time I was on Fool Us, no one knew who I was before.

They didn't know it was coming. But since then it's changed my life because now people know, oh, you're the guy who tricked Penn and Teller. Let's hire you. - Mmm, okay, I don't know. I see some surprised looks. Let's talk to the boys. - Well. - Gentlemen. - I want you to think about this because if we raid you, and if we are wrong, and if you have deceived us again, I am going to hurt you. (laughs) So, you know, that little thing you did with the glue stick and the little scissors. You did this. You did that.

I tell you that we have a small list. I'll hit you on the head. (laughing) I'll kick your ass. (laughing) I'll take you down. I will make you stumble. Imagine they are positioned in front of you as I say this. (laughing) Here's the problem. - Well. - You know we've been with you in hotel rooms and you doing these things for us. Amazing things. And there's a kind of shortcut that Teller and I use to talk about juggling and magic. Because when juggling, you say you're going to do something and you do it. And in magic you say you're going to do something and you don't do it.

We think we know that you can control a card anywhere. We know that once you've chosen a card, you can place it wherever you want. We know you can put that card wherever you want. We kind of saw you do it. And then, and this is the strangest arrest we've ever made, we think you really did it. We don't think there is any trick. We think you knew the location of the card and have been practicing since you were 18 because you reached out and grabbed the thing (which beeps). (laughs) We think you really did what you said you were going to do.

And that's why, even though you blew our minds and amazed us, you didn't fool us. We think you're that good. (laughs) So go ahead and tell me you're not that good. - So you think I've been locked up practicing for 20 years. And that he could dribble with precision and catch any card he wanted from anywhere in the deck? - Uh, more or less, more or less, yes. (laughs) - You are absolutely right. (laughs) (audience cheering and applauding) - Thank you, it was so good. (audience cheering and applauding) - Thank you very much. You are the best. - So good. - Thanks guys. - It's better than you think.

I'm telling you. (Audience cheers and applauds) - Kostya Kimlat. - Thank you so much. (Audience cheering and applauding)