He began his career as the larger and vocal half of groundbreaking comedy/illusion showmen Penn and Teller, but during his decades onstage, Penn Jillette parlayed his commanding personality and intellectual leanings into all manner of offshoots as a personality and pundit. A columnist, author, voice-over actor, radio host, TV host and documentarian, the tireless Jillette was regularly tapped to bring counter-culture hip cache to TV and film projects. He could always be counted on to ruffle a few feathers with his outspoken atheism and skepticism, or, in the case of family-audiences, for his
