Ventriloquist Central Blog

You know there is much discussion all the time about what makes a good ventriloquist. In my opinion you need three things to be a good ventriloquist which are lip control, manipulation and dialogue and two of those things take much practice.

Lip control can take you many many months of practice to become proficient and Manipulation of the vent figure can also be very hard to accomplish. The dialogue needs not near as much practice because it is more memorization of the content. Not that it isn’t hard but I think the first two are much more difficult.

Here is an idea that you could do to help you learn how to manipulate a vent figure so that it looks like it is alive. At a family gathering if there is a young child, ask the child to sit on your knee and then ask some questions and watch the movement of the child while the child is sitting on your knee.

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The one thing that I like about ventriloquism that isn’t figures are books. I have a rather large collections of vent related books and today I received my newest addition Talking Heads by Matthew Rolston and I have to say this book is stupendous.

Matthew has done a superlative job photographing the faces of many of the antique figures in the Vent Haven Museum and these pictures give you detail that your eye just does not see when you are perusing the collection in person.

I can honestly say that looking at his pictures made me go and look rather closely at some of the figures in the Ventriloquist Central Collection. It was wonderous.

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Back in the day when Jerry Mahoney was on television his show had two club songs. Those songs were “Hooray Hoorah” and ” Friends Friends”. As kids watching the show I think we all memorized those songs and sang along with the show.

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I was contacted back a few days ago by K.S. Gode about a get together that took place in India.

Over the years I have owned and sold a number of Mr Gode’s figures and I also had the pleasure of meeting and sharing some time with him at the Vent Haven ConVENTion about 5 years ago.

We had a great time sharing stories and talking about vent figures. I was privy to go to Mr. Gode’s hotel room where he had half a dozen figure heads with him. He constructs figures in the Len Insull manner and they are very nice especially for the money he charges.

Here is his email and pictures to me:

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There have been many comments and tributes being talked about throughout the ventriloquist community regarding Clinton Detweiler. A lot has been said on Facebook as well.

Since I know there are many who are not on Facebook, Terry Fator posted this tribute and I know others would like to see it as well.

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