Category Archives: Ventriloquist Central

Jesse Burden from Canada is a budding you Ventriloquist and over the past few years has become a friend and has saved his money and has purchased a few items from me.

Here’s a video showing an old Abbott’s catalog that featured the McElroy Brother’s ventriloquist figures.

This was sent in to us from Bob Abdou: Hey Dan and Steve, Found this great article from the 1954 Puppetry Journal Festival printed 60 years ago:

I have never had nor have I seen a ventriloquist figure that had fingers or thumb that moved by way for any controls. As matter of fact I actually think that might be a rather hard thing to make function … Continue reading →

All of us in the ventriloquist world love Jerry Mahoney as a character and in our minds we always picture Jerry the way Paul Winchell redid him with his heavy eyebrows and heavy eye liner. But this picture (above) shows … Continue reading →