Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Teller's e-mail: Sleep, Inc.

Q:  Do you have any sleeping rituals you’d care to write about?

TELLER:  You don't want to sleep with me.  I keep the room as cold as David Letterman's studio and cocoon myself in a thick comforter.  I've built shutters in the room so that no light can come in, so it's very tomb-like.  I have a white noise generator and a humidifier next to the bed.  So it's rather like sleeping in the cold, dark, damp hold of a ship with its engine roaring.  When I travel, I always ask for a quiet room, which usually means that they put me over the alley where the garbage is picked up at four a.m.  The last time I had been in New York, I stayed at a hotel, at which I'd finally (after several tries) found a quiet room on a high floor.  I requested the same room again.  When I walked in and looked out the window, this is what I found.

Guest Star: Julie the Turkey Lady

Ok, technically the turkeys are the true guest stars of the Sleep, Inc. episode, but trainer Julie does all the talking.

Penn & Teller on the Sleep, Inc. episode

A moment with... Dr. Kripke

We had nearly completed our interview with Dr. Daniel Kripke, a respected doctor and sleep expert, when he thought of something he wanted to say.  Click to learn what that is!

Special Feature: The Bed Gag

Take a look at how our talented team recycles one of the oldest tricks in hollywood for the Sleep, Inc. episode.

Special Feature: Cow Puke

Jack and Jeremy from the art department give us the lowdown on one of the best standups of the season from the Sleep, Inc. episode.

Sleep, Inc.

Okay, everybody sleeps. But while you’re counting sheep, some people are counting the money they made off of you trying to help you sleep. We’ll follow Insomniac Pat on his trip to (irony alert) the city that really never sleeps, Las Vegas, where he attends a mattress convention. But can they help him sleep, or will Pat once again say lullaby-bye to his money?

And while at the mattress expo, we’ll try and end the bloody mattress war between foam and coils. We’ll also pay a visit to a doctor who claims his music can help you sleep (no, it’s not Dr. Kenny G). But he does say: “My bio-clocks set themselves to the universe. The universe pulses and we dance to it. So this idea of coupled oscillators, the science of coupled oscillators pretty much shows that everything in nature dances together to the same drummer but nobody’s beating the drum except everybody.” What???