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unusual facts about ventriloquist



1999 in radio

Shirley Dinsdale, 72, ventriloquist and television and radio personality of the 1940s and early 1950s.

ABC Weekend Special

In 1981, ventriloquist Willie Tyler and his puppet Lester took over as "co-hosts" of the series, appearing in an opening segment introducing that week's episode as well as an ending segment wrapping up the show and often recommending the book that that week's episode had been based on.

Adam and Joe

They directed pop promos for Frank Black and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, as well as appearing in two Surf washing powder commercials, in which they comically set upon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Keith Harris and Orville.

America's Super Showcase

Also included were a European comedy team called "Lacawski And Siegel" who would slap their chests to the tune of the William Tell Overture; a Ventriloquist Lynn Tuxster performed an act with three audience members; Prop comedians Carrot Top and Mike Bent performed comedy skits; and Kevin Meaney closed the show by lip-synching "We Are The World" and imitating the singers who originally participated in the song.

Arthur Worsley

Worsley made his first stage appearance aged 11 at the Casino, Rusholme, Manchester, billed as the "World's Youngest Ventriloquist".

Brian Haner

Haner is known for touring with fellow stand-up comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, as in the 2008 holiday program, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special.

Dino Stamatopoulos

While attending Columbia College Chicago he performed a duo act with comedian Andy Dick, in which Stamatopoulos played a ventriloquist and Dick played a dummy under the influence of sleeping pills.

Down You Go

NBC picked up the program on June 16 and made Down You Go more comedy-oriented, with new host Bill Cullen and a regular celebrity panel of Jayne Mansfield, Jimmy Nelson, Hildy Parks, and Arthur Treacher.

Fat Butt and Pancake Head

However, it turns out to merely be a ventriloquist act with Cartman's hand acting as the head of "Ms. Lopez" (reminiscent of Señor Wences) who is a Hispanic stereotype in every way.

Nerella Venu Madhav

Ventriloquist Mimicry Srinivos an international performer and one and only sound illusionist is a disciple of sri Nerella Venumadhav.

One Way Street Regional Festivals

Liz VonSeggen - Ventriloquist, Storyteller, Puppeteer, Writer, retired from One Way Street, Inc.

RotorWay Exec

Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has a custom-painted Rotorway Exec 162F with his name and a picture of Walter on the aircraft.

Sit Back With Jack

Guests during the series run not only included professional musicians such as Bud & Travis, Frank D'Rone and Ray Eberle, but amateur performers such as Father Clayton Barclay (a harpsichord player), Wally Keep (a singing taxi driver), Vince Lovallo (a singing blacksmith) and Bobby Swartz (ventriloquist, operating his dummy Elmer).

Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.

Friends included the professional magician Jonathan Harrington.

The Dummy

The Great Gabbo (1929) feature film about a mad ventriloquist, starring Erich von Stroheim

Dead of Night (1945) British horror film, "Ventriloquist's Dummy" sequence, starring Michael Redgrave

The Keith Harris Show

The Keith Harris Show was a comedy variety show on BBC TV featuring Keith Harris and Orville the Duck.

The Puppet Show

It may also draw on the 1978 motion picture Magic (in which a schizophrenic ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive) and an episode in the 1945 British anthology film, Dead of Night.

Venu Madhav

Nerella Venu Madhav, Padmashri winning Ventriloquist (mimicry artist)

What You Mean We?

Anderson would later return to the experiment of creating an alter ego with her CD-ROM release Puppet Motel, which replaced the clone with a ventriloquist dummy.


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