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Originally Posted by Inso0
lol no
Have you ever been to a taping of a late-night style show? The audience is in bleachers. 100% of them can see the top of the table from their seat, so they'd be able to see nail heads sticking out.
Plus, half of the nails go in crooked.
Inso0 I have never been to a late night taping although I am guessing from your reply that you have.
I don't think the height that the audience is seated is whats important. I think the distance from the stage is sufficient that there would not be any way for someone to pick up that the nails are indeed rising up from the board and not the other way around. Counter sinking the heads would be very easy so that even at a short distance the board would appear totally normal.
I think the likelihood of them relying on Penn holding the gun in just the right way so that no nail is fired during the trigger pulls when his hand, Teller's pee pee, or worse yet Teller's chin is the would be target is near zero. The slightest, and I mean, slightest mistake would result in severe injury or death and the risk there does not make any sense.
Sure, for Penn to hold the gun up to his hand once and make that move might be a skill one could aquire but to do it at speed while talking would result in way too high a risk that something goes wrong. P&T are all about misdirection and making you believe that you are seeing something which in point of fact, you are not. They are very open about this so I don't see why people would think there is any different standard used in this trick.
It doesn't make it any less entertaining IMO. But I would bet a large sum of money that all showbiz BS aside if you could ask them with a 100% guarantee that they answer truthfully, there are no nails coming from the gun during the entire bit. Of course this isn't possible, which is what makes it fun to watch and prompts discussions like this.