Comedy Magic
The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently named Matt Donnelly Las Vegas’s Best Up-and-Coming Comedy Magician. His Mind Noodler act has been dazzling audiences across North America with his unique and hilarious brand of magic and one-of-a-kind story.
Many years ago while working as head writer on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn Jillette challenged Matt to learn one trick. He said, “It’s harder than you think, but you might be better than you think.” So he learned one trick each from seven magicians, put them together into a show, and hasn’t stopped working since.
Matt Donnelly spent years on tour opening for Piff the Magic Dragon with his own take on comedy magic. Now he tours his own show, amazing audiences at venues like Las Angeles’ The Magic Castle, The Chicago Magic Lounge, and Nashville’s House of Cards. He has also starred in national tours including The Jokers of Magic, Penn & Teller present The Foolers, and in “Comedy, Magic, and Mayhem” with Bryan Saint and Michael Goudeau.
Offstage Matt cohosts Penn Jillette’s award-winning podcast Penn’s Sunday School and his own magic podcast Abracababble with RJ Owens and Reddi Rich. (And he has cohosted another popular comedy podcast for over 1,300 episodes he’ll tell you about if you ask.) He has wrapped eleven seasons as head writer of Penn & Teller: Fool Us on the CW, and performs regularly with Paul Mattingly and other comedy partners in the “Best Comedy Show” in Las Vegas, the Bucket Show.
90-second promo reel
Matt’s first appearance on Fool Us
Matt’s second appearance on Fool Us