I guess he and Teller have a good thing going, but I wouldn't want my colleague/work partner to talk about me in such impersonal terms after so long. Some quotes.

[Quote] Interviewer: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that part of your success in your working relationship with Teller is that the two of you aren't super-close in your personal life.

"Not at all. Teller and I probably socialize maybe three times a year. Maybe three times a year we actually go out and have dinner and see a movie. There's a few reasons for that. Our relationship is very much based around the show rather than based around affections. Some people you love and just want to hug them when you see them. Teller and I work together because we do better work together. Guys like Lennon and McCartney really did have that love, and that can get in the way of the work. Teller and I are a lot like two guys running a dry cleaning business. It turns out that respect is more enduring than affection."

[Quote] I believe that the volatile groups Lennon and McCartney, Martin and Lewis, Gilbert and Sullivan… We don’t have teams nowadays, we have to go back in time, but um, Martin and Lewis, and specially Lennon and McCartney - those two groups.. were love affairs, those were two people who fell in love; Lennon and McCartney were certainly in love. And then when things start to not go right, love is heartbreaking.

Teller and I started without any natural affection at all. I didn’t have that, you know- that feeling you have you want to hug somebody somebody or want to be around them, or really feel affectionate toward them, which I feel toward a lot of people, I never felt toward Teller. Our relationship was essentially an e-mail relationship before e-mail. It was very, very sterile, very cold.”

[Quote] “My relationship with Teller has always been what would feel like an e-mail relationship,” says Jillette. “It’s entirely intellectual and is not in any way cuddly or friendly. That having been said, over 39 years, he’s clearly my best friend. And for any important thing that happens, like the birth of my children, the death of our parents, any sort of real problem, we go to each other.”

As an aside, the Martin and Lewis partnership was way before my time but this prompted me to look them up. The comedy was lame, but the chemistry was not! I won't touch Lennon and Mccartney as I remember the Beatles were bi threads.