Jeki Yoo is a close-up magic and comedy magic and parlour magic artist based in Los Angeles. Television achievements include winning Penn & Teller: Fool Us, successfully stumping the legendary duo with original deceptive artistry.
Jeki Yoo is a comedy and close-up magician based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in close-up magic and comedy magic. Jeki Yoo's career includes an America's Got Talent win, fooling Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and being billed 3 weeks at The Magic Castle in Hollywood.
Jeki Yoo is a close-up magician whose appearance on America's Got Talent drew over 13 million viewers and left even Simon Cowell stunned by what he had just witnessed. He first made his name by winning Asia's greatest magic contest, The Busan International Magic Festival, in 2006 while still a high school student, and in 2009 took a close-up magic award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians, going on to a first prize at the organisation's convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
His magic is innovative and fresh in its originality, and has played to audiences in England, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan and China, and at the famed Edinburgh Festival as a member of SNAP, one of Korea's biggest magic shows. With Ellie K. Park he also performs a 'Quick Change' act, seen on Korean television's Starking, in which outfits change in a blink of an eye.
1 of 2 appearances on Penn & Teller: Fool Us fooled Penn and Teller.
Aired 29 January 2021
Fooled Penn & Teller
Search YouTube We haven’t confirmed a clip of this performance yet.Aired 8 October 2021
Did not fool Penn & Teller
Returning fooler from an earlier appearance.
Search YouTube We haven’t confirmed a clip of this performance yet.Castle debut 2017, last billed 2026, on the Castle’s published schedules as the archive records them. Rooms: Close-Up (1), Lectures (1), Parlour (1), Peller (1). (4 room engagements across 3 weeks).
Sleight of hand at intimate distance — cards, coins, and sleight of hand.
Stand-up comedy integrated with high-level deception.
Intimate salon theatre and storytelling for small gatherings.
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