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How to Saw a Woman in Half · Jan 7, 2011
36 acts across 10 episodes, 2011. 11 of them fooled Penn and Teller — one season of all 568 acts the show has billed.
How to Saw a Woman in Half · Jan 7, 2011
How to Saw a Woman in Half — ITV website exclusives · Jan 7, 2011
Teller Sucks... Helium · Jun 18, 2011
Stab a Card, Any Card... · Jun 25, 2011
Solid Goldfish · Jul 2, 2011
Teller is a Blockhead · Jul 9, 2011
Penn Gets Nailed · Jul 16, 2011
The Magic of Polyester · Jul 23, 2011
A Bellyful of Needles · Jul 30, 2011
Water Tanks for the Memories · Aug 28, 2011
Fool Us has run for 11 seasons and 173 episodes, and nobody involved with the show keeps a public list of who performed on it. So we built one, from the episode-by-episode records below, and checked it act by act.
Acts are listed the way the show billed them, so a duo stays a duo. A magician who came back gets a separate entry for every visit, because the result can go either way on different nights — plenty of people lost one week and fooled Penn and Teller the next. When we could confirm a magician has a FindMagic profile, their name links straight to it, so you can see where they are performing now.
A red YouTube mark means we watched that link and it really is that performance. A grey one means we could not find the clip and the link runs a YouTube search instead — we would rather admit that than pass a guess off as the real thing. Right now 122 of 686 performances have a confirmed video, and we are still working through the rest.
A few segments where Penn or Teller competed instead of judging are kept in the list but left out of the Fooled them filter — somebody else was doing the judging, so they are not comparable. Last updated 2026-08-28, covering everything broadcast through 2025-12-05.
Checked against: Wikipedia — Penn & Teller: Fool Us · Reddit r/FoolUs — Complete Lists of Foolers, Performers, Performances · The CW Network YouTube · Magician Masterclass — Fool Us coverage
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