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Oh, I'll be seeing all of you tonight when i close my eyes.

Also, shouldn't our generation been one of Super Ventriloquists?

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[Mikey]

I had a Jerry Mahoney

[DavidCoppola]

I had Howdy Doody

[HardyGirl]

Oh...I think this movie killed any dreams of us 70s kids (w/ the exception of Jeff Dunham) becoming ventriloquists.

[Earth 2 Chris]

These scared the beejeezus out of me as a kid, but I wanted one anyway.

Chris

[Brown Bear]

Tommy Talker always scared the heck outta me.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I just remembered I had a World's Finest comic with a Vigilante story featuring his enemy, the Dummy, who was the spitting image of Charlie McCarthy. It made me assume Charlie was a villain!

Chris

[TrekStar]

I always wanted the Groucho Marx, but could never find it in my neck of the woods.

[Iron Mego]

Oh...I think this movie killed any dreams of us 70s kids (w/ the exception of Jeff Dunham) becoming ventriloquists.

This commercial terrified me as a kid. Seriously could not get out of the room fast enough when it came on. Funny thing is, the movie isn't very scary at all.

[PNGwynne]

I had a Charlie McCarthy, and I even nabbed a ventriloquism book by Edgar Bergen at an estate auction when I was a kid. I recall that Laurel & Hardy dummies were also offered in some catalogues.

[Mikey]

I never could understand the popularity of Edgar Bergen.

He's got to be the absolute WORST ventriloquist EVER

[PNGwynne]

lol His greatest success was on radio. I'd say, personally, it was his characters and material more than his technique, which was inconsistent. Still, Henson was a huge fan and wasn't The Muppet Movie dedicated to Bergen?

I enjoy ventriloquists. but I can't stand Jeff Dunham.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I enjoy ventriloquists. but I can't stand Jeff Dunham.

I find some of his stuff funny, but he's a better comedian than ventriloquist. He's constantly moving his lips!

Chris

[PNGwynne]

^ I'm OK with about 5 minutes of the Old Guy, because I find that grumpy old man humor funny His other characters just grate on me.

I think the amazing thing about Charlie is he was accepted as his own character. I saw a film--with W.C. Fields I think--where Charlie is the costar and they even use a child or little person in some action scenes. It was a riff on his radio escapades. Lots of double-entendre made him popular, too--somehow more acceptable from a dummy.

[toys2cool]

man i had a bunch of those