The basic premise of all trickery, which the trickster often condescends to call magic, is to distract the audience's attention one way while the deceit or sleight of hand is carried out in the opposing direction. 'Magicians', tricksters in reality, have been doing it on streets, in theatres and music halls and on televisions for years. Penn and Teller have been one of the biggest double acts since the 1990s, when they started appearing regularly on their own television shows. Currently, they have a series in both the US and the UK called Fool Us, in which 'magicians' are invited to perform tricks in an attempt to baffle the experienced duo in how the trick was done. There is, however, trickery going on at the meta-level of the programme, which is directed by a certain (((Dennis Rosenblatt)))....
