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  • n  a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

  • It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? but the two of them are funny enough.
  • Anyone who has watched him manipulate the wisecracking dummy he calls Jerry Mahoney knows that Paul Winchell, 50, is a talented ventriloquist.
  • Terry Fator, a singing ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent in 2007, now has a 10-year contract at the Mirage in Vegas.
News & Articles

  • It’s a Small World, After All: Colum McCann’s Cosmic Novels Have a Tight Connection
    Colum McCann. (Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images Colum McCann writes better from female points of view than male ones. Among living male novelists I know of, this problem is unique. So the white Irishman is a brilliant ventriloquist of hookers and housewives who writes feelingly about African-American femininity. Yet with his white Irish male characters, for whom he writes in something ...
    June 12, 2013 - The New York Observer
  • Ventriloquist to visit library; movie series continues
    Ventriloquist Kevin Horner will entertain children from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Tonganoxie Public Library, 303 S. Bury.
    June 11, 2013 - The Tonganoxie Mirror
  • Digging into reading
    Ventriloquist Kevin Horner performed at a summer reading program kick-off at the Cass County Public Library’s Northern Resource Center June 3.
    June 10, 2013 - The Cass County Democrat Missourian

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