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Edited sentence: "A Pictorial History of Ventriloquism"  by Bob Albano.''Vent Haven ConVENTion in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky., and it is The Great Lester's success which paved the way for the ventriloquist-with-one-figure routine which is ubiquitous today.67 (2).A number of modern ventriloquists have developed a following as the public taste for live comedy grows.Additionally, for the second time in two years, viewers recently voted Dunham to third place in Comedy Central’s “Standup Showdown.As Spiritualism led to stage magic and escapology, so ventriloquism became more of a performance art as, starting around the 19th century, it shed its mystical trappings.Bergen continued performing until his death in 1979, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Wayland Flowers, and his famous puppet, Madame, Jimmy Nelson, Shari Lewis, and her daughter Mallory, and Señor Wences.Bergen popularized the idea of the comedic ventriloquist.Bergen, together with his favorite figure, Charlie McCarthy, hosted a radio program that was broadcast from 1937 to 1956.Billed as The One Man Twosome, Louis Russo, pseudonym Russ Lewis, employed as his primary figure character Brooklyn Birch.Church History.Cybervent, website for ventriloquists.David Strassman performs his ventriloquism in theatres throughout the Commonwealth, and uses robotics to augment his characters' movements, expanding upon an idea originated in the early 1950s by New York ventriloquist Stanley Burns.Englishman Fred Russell pioneered the use of one single figure with his dummy, Coster Joe.For the labial sounds "f", "v", "b", "p", and "m", the only choice is to replace them with others.For this reason, many of the performers used multiple figures, switching quickly from one voice to another.Great names in the history of dummy making include Theo Mack and Son, Frank Marshall, Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, David Strassman, Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy.He also owns a small version of himself, Little Dummy, which belongs to Peanut.He has repeatedly expressed that one of his goals is to bring ventriloquism back into the popular culture as a valid art form.He is currently appearing both on and off Broadway with his one man (but many-dummy) show entitled "The Two and Only.His career saw him through burlesque, circus, night clubs and vaudeville at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.His constant self-mockery and the diversity of the puppets has led him to winning “Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic” at the American Comedy Awards twice, an honor shared with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Foxworthy, and Robin Williams.However, in modern times other materials are often employed, including fibreglass-reinforced resins, urethanes, filled (rigid) latex, and neoprene.However, the term "throwing one's voice" is misleading, because it implies that a sound's physical origin has changed, when really the change has been perceptual and not physical.If variations of the sounds "th", "d", "t", and "n" are spoken quickly, it can be difficult for listeners to notice a difference.In the Middle Ages it was thought to be similar to witchcraft.In total, the ventriloquist logged over 30 national TV guest appearances.It was the #1 program on the nights it aired.Jay Johnson co-starred on the sitcom Soap with his dummy Bob.Jeff Dunham is a modern ventriloquist with several puppets, such as Peanut, Walter, Achmed, and José Jalapeño (on a stick).Jules Vernon was one of the more famous American vaudeville ventriloquists who used multiple figures.Las Vegas, major showrooms world tours with numerous legends of the entertainment world- Liberace, Jayne Mansfield, Alan King, as well as USO shows in Vietnam, and distant Strategic Air Command bases.Leigh Eric Schmidt (1988) From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment.Lip reading.List of ventriloquists.Louis Albert Russo made his first network appearance in 1949.Many ventriloquists attend conferences, such as the Vent Haven Convention and I-Fest, to hone their skills and to connect with others in their performing community.Modern ventriloquists use a variety of different types of puppets in their presentations, ranging from soft cloth or foam puppets, flexible latex puppets, and the traditional and familiar hard headed knee figure.Multimodal integration.One difficulty ventriloquists face is that all the sounds they make must be made with lips slightly separated.One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to use this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle.One of the most successful early gastromancers was Eurykles, a prophet at Athens; gastromancers came to be referred to as Euryklides in his honour.Originally ventriloquism was a religious practice.Other parts of the world also have a tradition of ventriloquism for ritual or religious purposes; the Zulus, Eskimo, and Maori are all adept at this practice.Perhaps the most famous vaudeville ventriloquist, however, The Great Lester, used only one figure Frank Byron Jr.President, Jimmy Carter.Python subsequently became one of the most common words used in classical Jewish and early Christian writing to refer to necromantic ventriloquism, it has even been used by some early English versions of the Bible to translate the word gastromancy in the Septuagint, and in the Book of Acts.Ramdas Padhye, ventriloquist, puppeteer and puppet maker from India, has been performing for the last 40 years, and is famous all over India with his dummies Ardhavatrao and his other puppet Bunny (the rabbit that starred in the commercial Lijjat Papad).Ronn Lucas and his figure Scorch "burn up" the Las Vegas showrooms.Russo Louis continued to perform into the early 21st century.Terry Fator,.Terry now performs nightly at the Hilton hotel in Las Vegas, and soon will be moving his show to the Mirage hotel and casino also in Las Vegas, after signing a 100 million dollar record, he has become the most successful ventriloquist in the world.The Catholic Encyclopedia's Necromancy entry.The act of ventriloquism is ventriloquizing and the ability to do so is commonly called in English the ability to  "throw" one's voice.The actor ventriloquist was a member of the first USO troupe to cross the Arctic Circle, entertain American troops, and perform for a U.The classic dummies used by ventriloquists (the technical name for which is ventriloquial figure) vary in size anywhere from twelve inches tall to human-size and larger, with the height usually falling between 34 and 42 inches.The most familiar type of ventriloquist seen today is a nightclub performer sitting on a stool with a wooden dummy on his or her lap.The most prominent and most prolific modern day suppliers of professional ventriloquial dummies include Tim Selberg, Alan Semok, Ray Guyll, Conrad Hartz, Geoffrey Felix, Jerry Layne, Mike Brose, and Albert Alfaro.The name comes from the Latin for to speak from the stomach; the Greeks called this gastromancy ().The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the dead, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist.The vaudeville acts did not concentrate on humor as much as on demonstrating the ventriloquist's ability to deceive the audience and his skill in switching voices.The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought able to speak to the dead, as well as to foretell the future.There followed the Steve Allen Show, Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Dean Martin Show, Rowan and Martin, Mike Douglas Show and Joey Bishop talk shows.These gatherings offer performances, competitions, panel discussions, and workshops for beginners and professionals alike.This comedic style of ventriloquism is, however, a fairly recent innovation, which began in the days of Vaudeville in the late 19th century.Traditionally this type of puppet has been made from papier-mâché or wood.Vent Haven Museum: Ventriloquist Museum.Ventriloquism is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere.Ventriloquism was immensely popular in the middle of the 20th century, thanks in great part to the work of one of the Great Lester's students, Edgar Bergen.Ventriloquism's popularity waned for a while, probably because of modern media's electronic ability to convey the illusion of voice, the natural special effect that is the heart of ventriloquism.Ventriloquism, A Dissociated Perspective by Angela Mabe.ca:Ventríloc.com a Showcase of Ventriloquism Stagecraft.com: Ventriloquism Videos from some of the Greatest.da:Bugtaler.de:Bauchredner.eo:Ventroparolado.es:Ventriloquia.fi:Vatsastapuhuminen.fr:Ventriloque.he:פיתומות.hu:Hasbeszélés.id:Ventriloquisme.it:Ventriloquo.ja:腹話術.lt:Ventrologija.nl:Buikspreken.no:Buktaling.pl:Brzuchomówstwo.pt:Ventriloquia.ru:Чревовещание.sv:Buktaleri.the 2007 winner of the NBC reality show America's Got Talent, is known for impersonating famous singers through his puppets.zh:腹語術.” Jeff tours the comedy circuit and has appeared on many television shows, including his own Comedy Central specials, which include Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, and Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special