litigious ... persons

[Penn Jillette, sitting by a gravestone marked "Harry Houdini, 1874 - 1926"]

Harry, can you believe it? The same bullshit you so thoroughly debunked almost a century ago is continuing -- and even enjoying a resurgence.

See? Anyone can talk to the dead. Getting an answer ... that's the hard part.

[Opening credits.]

Hi, I'm Penn and this is my parter Teller, and this is BULLSHIT! That's the name of our show.

We're going to hunt down as many purveyors of bullshit as we can. Sure we lie, cheat and swindle ... we've been known to deal in a bit of bullshit ourselves, so some of you may ask, 'Why pee on someone else's parade?' One important difference: we tell you we're lying!

You'll notice more obscenity than we usually use. That's not just because it's on [the] Showtime [premium cable channel], and we wanna get some attention. It's also a legal matter. If one calls people "liars" and "quacks", one can be sued and lose a lot of one's money. But "motherfuckers" ... and "assholes" ... it's pretty safe. If we just said it was all scams, we could also be in trouble. But "BULLSHIT!" -- oddly -- is safe. So forgive all the bullshit language. We're trying to talk about the truth without spending the rest of our lives in court because of litigious motherfuckers!