Anecdotes

Claims to have no facial recall. He says he even ran into his mother once after a show and did not recognize her.

Attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

The original announcer for cable channel Comedy Central.

Plays the upright bass in his show in Vegas. He also helped compose some of the songs for the show.

Never knew how to play poker, until 8 days before his appearance on Celebrity Poker Showdown (2003) on July 15, 2004.

Nail of the ring finger of his left hand is always painted.

Never drinks or smokes.

Jokes that the reason for him painting his fingernail is because he "Shot a man for asking him personal questions!". The real reason is that it is a joke between him and his mother.

Daughter Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette was born on Friday, June 3, 2005.

Owns a pink Mini Cooper with a vanity license plate reading ATHEIST.

Owned an over-sized sport-utility vehicle painted bright pink (he nicknamed it "Pink Death"), with a Nevada vanity license plate that read "6SIX6". He reportedly spent several thousand dollars on a customized sound system for it. He sold it in 2005, to raise money for J.R.E.F. (the James Randi Education Foundation).

Was a performer at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.

Is a Cato Institute H.L. Mencken Research Fellow.

Son Zolten Penn Jillette was born 22 May 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces and joins his 11-month-old sister, Moxie Crimefighter Jillette.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 7003 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 5, 2013.

Had his first work of fiction titled "Sock" published. (juillet 2004)

Performed a nightly show at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada (2003).

Knows how to do fire-eating, and has shown this talent on an episode of his game show, Identity (2006).

With partner Teller, half of comedy/magic team Penn & Teller.

Partnered with Kym Johnson Herjavec on the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars (2005). (mars 2008)

Son of Valda Ruth (Parks), a secretary, and Samuel Herbert Jillette, who worked at Greenfield's Franklin County Jail.

His paternal grandparents were from Newfoundland, Canada, and his mother's family is from Massachusetts. His ancestry is English, Scottish, and more distant Guernsey and Irish. The Jillette family in Newfoundland originates in England.

High school classmates with Michael Moschen.