Has any one ever heard Teller , of the show Penn & Teller talk?

Question

Has any one ever heard Teller , of the show Penn & Teller talk?

Answer 1

I believe Teller had a few lines in an episode of the Simpsons guest starring Penn and Teller.  Homer wrecked their show and Teller said something like, "get off the stage, moron."  To which Homer replied, "hey, I thought you never talk."  Teller then said, "Oh great, now Penn will beat me."

Edit: Actually, I think Teller's reply was "Oh great, now Penn will kill me.  I'm not the first Teller."

I could be wrong, it's been awhile since I've seen the episode.

Answer 2

Technically, Teller's not supposed to talk. He took a personal oath to remain mute. However, there have been instances of his doing so. One such being for a documentary on Harry Houdini. But professionaly he keeps his mouth shut, vocally speaking that is.

Answer 3

I saw him speak on a television documentary once, but never while performing.

Answer 4

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller February 14, 1948) is an American illusionist, comedian and writer best known as the silent half of the comedy magic duo known as Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette. He legally changed his name to "Teller" and possesses one of the few United States passports issued in a single name.[1]

Teller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were of Russian Jewish and Cuban descent. However, as Penn Jillette revealed in the Bullshit! episode dealing with reparations, he learned of his Jewish ancestry within only the last decade. [2] He attended Central High School and Amherst College and taught English and Latin at Lawrence High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey[3]. He was selected to be a member of the Central High School Hall of Fame in 2001.

Teller is an accomplished sleight of hand artist and is considered an expert on the history of magic. He is also a talented painter. He is an atheist, debunker, skeptic, and Fellow of the Cato Institute (a libertarian think-tank organization which also lists his partner Penn Jillette as a Fellow). The Cato Institute association is featured prominently in the Penn and Teller Showtime TV series Bullshit.

Teller does not speak while performing although there are occasional exceptions, usually when the audience is not aware of it. For example, he did the voice of "m**o the psychic gorilla" in their early Broadway show with the help of a radio mike cupped in his hand. Teller's trademark silence originated during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college fraternity parties.[4] He found that if he maintained silence throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and heckling him and focused more on his performance.

Despite his trademark of pantomime on stage, Teller has spoken in a number of films and television shows, as well as in numerous radio, television interviews, and whispered to audience members during the show in Las Vegas.

Teller plays an anthropomorphic cat, Mr. Boots, on an episode of Dharma & Greg.[5] He also plays Mortimer in the 2000 film adaptation of the musical The Fantasticks (nearly all his dialogue was cut from the finished film since the character is a mute). He also speaks in a guest starring role on the "Like a Hurricane" episode of Miami Vice in 1987.

In the 1987 movie Long Gone, Teller played the son of Henry Gibson (whom he strongly resembles) and deliberately imitated the strong Southern accent Gibson used in the film. Gibson and Teller are both originally from Philadelphia.