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Oh...I think this movie killed any dreams of us 70s kids (w/ the exception of Jeff Dunham) becoming ventriloquists.
"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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^ 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.
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