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Flashback Friday: Things Got "Tricky" for Penn & Teller in This 1986 Run-D.M.C. Video

The illustrious illusionists had a trick up their sleeves.

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| New York City |

July 10, 2015

Penn & Teller: master magicians and also television stars. Throughout the 1990s to the present day, the pair have been seen on shows ranging from The Simpsons to The West Wing. They've hosted their own shows, like Bullshit! and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. But their (arguably) crowning achievement in the medium was this 1986 music video for Run-D.M.C.'s "It's Tricky." The plot starts out with the mysterious duo running a game of three-card Monte on the street in L.A., which seems pretty feasible. But things go to pretty extreme lengths even for them — and these are the guys who are currently performing an elephant-disappearance every night on a Broadway stage.

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