Penn & Teller celebrate 25 years of entertaining and remaking Las Vegas

As of August 19, 2025, magicians Penn Jillette and Teller have been in show business for 50 years. For reasons that will soon be evident, I haven’t room for a “the story so far” retrospective of their career, so if you want something like that, I recommend seeking out one of the several excellent articles written about that milestone last year. (Jason Zinoman did a great one for The New York Times.) We’re picking up the story after the books, the TV specials, the Saturday Night Live appearances, the feature film (1989’s Penn & Teller Get Killed, which lives up to its name), the national tours and so on.