If you ask me, it doesn’t pay to be a dummy — a ventriloquist’s dummy, that is. For one thing, he’s made of wood, and for another, he spends his entire existence being manipulated by someone else.

Ventriloquist Sylvia Fletcher is making her first appearance at the Florida State Fair after a 30-year career of entertaining audiences and visiting schools to teach important life lessons on literacy ...

“I love to use my imagination. Whenever I’m reading I love to imagine it, it’s like a movie theater in my mind.” That was one of the first things ventriloquist Ian Varella told children who came to ...

Dennis Lee teaches children important life lessons not in a classroom but onstage with funny puppet characters. He is a ventriloquist that has visited public schools for 25 years teaching children ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Winston Pearson Jr. wears many hats. He’s a father and loving husband, the pastor at The Church of Jesus in Fort Wayne, a talented musician, and a ventriloquist. Unlike the ...

Lizzie has been tucked in a wooden trunk bearing her name and stowed inside Linda Mae Glader’s closet for more than 40 years. But the dummy — a handcrafted ventriloquist doll with striking blue eyes, ...

You might have seen David Turner and Friends at the Nashville Fair! David retired from the aircraft industry for which he worked over 35 years. His love for ventriloquism has spanned over 50 years ...

Ventriloquist Todd Oliver is a Southern Baptist. His sidekick, Irving the Talking Dog, is -- at most -- spiritual but not religious. The duo, who have appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman," ...

One hundred years ago, John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first clear TV image: the unsettling grin of Stooky Bill. An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) ...

For The Telegraph ALTON — As a child, Todd Oliver thought the ventriloquist figures he saw on television in the 1960s were funny, most people did. But — even more than that — he found them charming.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An 8-year-old boy with a rare form of bone cancer, got quite the surprise Friday. The boy loves ventriloquists. On Friday, a famous ventriloquist in the country paid him a ...