By 1985, Penn & Teller were receiving positive reviews for their Off Broadway show and Emmy Award-winning PBS special, "Penn & Teller Go Public". In 1987, they began the first of three Broadway runs. The same year, they appeared as three-card Monte scam artists in the music video for "It's Tricky" by Run-DMC. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, the duo made numerous television appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman" and "Saturday Night Live", as well as "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Today", and others.