Penn Jillette Describes Being Fooled By Mahdi
I’ll remember this for the rest of my life… Gentlemen, you’ve just been fooled by pure sleight of hand by a man without hands.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Legendary Vegas Showman Johnny Thompson personally invited Mahdi Gilbert to appear on the third season of The CW’s PENN & TELLER: FOOL US in 2016. Mahdi was flown in to Las Vegas and spent the next week preparing for a performance that would mark the world of magic forever.
Ricky Jay’s ‘Matthias Buchinger’
Ricky Jay cites a present-day performer who gives us some sense of how Buchinger might have worked as a magician. The 26-year-old Canadian Mahdi Gilbert is limbed much as Buchinger and does exquisite card magic using techniques of his own invention that baffle even other magicians.