Background
Exposures are performed by both professional and amateur magicians. Some exposures have been performed as part of stage shows, or in other public media including television, the Internet, certain video sharing interfaces, discussion forums, and blogs.
One notable case of exposure using network television involved Val Valentino, performing as the Masked Magician in the Fox series Breaking the Magician's Code which ran between 1997 and 1998. Valentino was ostracized by the magic community and received much criticism from magicians for contravening the joint International Brotherhood of Magicians and Society of American Magicians ethics statement.
Penn & Teller performances often include exposing their own tricks for purposes of entertainment. Penn Jillette has said that while the duo show the audience how a trick is done, it is often done so quickly or with different mechanics, that while the audience learns it is a trick, they cannot follow. As a result, the duo will repeat the trick, fooling the audience even after the audience knows how it's done. This highlights the need to distinguish apparent exposures performed by magicians during an act, which invariably turn out to be illusions in their own right.
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