Biography

The taller, non-silent half of Penn & Teller

Acerbic humor

Deep hoarse voice

Towering height

Soul patch

Claims to have no facial recall. He says he even ran into his mother once after a show and did not recognize her.

Attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

The original announcer for cable channel Comedy Central.

Plays the upright bass in his show in Vegas. He also helped compose some of the songs for the show.

Never knew how to play poker, until 8 days before his appearance on Celebrity Poker Showdown (2003) on July 15, 2004.

[on his son's name] Zolten is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

[on the environment, June 20, 2008] Every bit of my bullshit detector goes off like crazy over global warming, and every fucking thing Al Gore says. He seems to me like a lying sack of shit who's wrong about everything.

There are magic tricks that look astonishing, and that - if you knew the secret - you would think are a little easy. Magic strips that out in an almost burlesque caricature way: to conceal how it's put together. When someone in music plays an effortless riff - when you hear John Coltrane play something that just flows out of the sax easily and comfortably - the fact that he was doing tedious work to get there is supposed to disappear, exactly the same as a magic trick.

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'