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Ventriloquists' Guild

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21 contributions to Ventriloquists' Guild
The Great Lester
Here is a video of The Great Lester, Edgar Bergen’s mentor, with “School For Dummies.” This is one of my favorites of all time. https://youtu.be/tVmXrz6iAlA?si=yDNXiPBCmH_0ZNBX
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I love watching this kind of vídeos!! We can learn so much!! Thanks for uploading It!!
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@Reece Wella I'd say maybe around the 1950s?
New Version of Zepellin, my main character
Hey guys!! I've never told you this, but I discovered I could do vent, when I was making a muppet. I was studying props and scenery at the time, and one of the tasks was to create a muppet. The teacher taught us but he had never made a muppet before, so I had been using It for a year and a half until It started breaking down. And I decided to create a new version of the character on my own!! I'm going to upload some pictures of the comparison!!! What do you think!! I think It looks WAAYY BETTER now!!
New Version of Zepellin, my main character
Distant Voice and Improving my Craft
How does one do the distant voice properly? I want to do more with ventriloquism, but I feel I’m not doing enough. Don’t get me wrong! I have good material I’ve done, with great characters as well. I just want to evolve my act to keep it current.
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I started working on it last year and now it's something I'm used to do. I was also told by another ventriloquist the same technique Reece has said. But I imagined something else that worked much better for me to get to that tone. I don't know if it'll be useful for you but I'll share it with you. What works better for me is imagining that I'm talking with a bug or a small insect, and obviously I'm doing that insect's voice. Basically what you have to do is squeeze or tighten your voice from your throat. If the one that is talking is a character of yours, I would suggest to practice by first doing their normal voice and then squeezing it from the throat as I've just explained to you. I hope this helps. If you have any doubt just text me and I'll be happy to help!!
Making eye contact with your audience...
In the midst of a show, a woman got up and ran out, visibly upset. Her husband came to me later and told me to be more careful, because as my Uncle Henry was looking around the audience, he looked her right in the eyes, and it freaked her out. And, because people have asked me why my puppet does not have a mic, I took care of that. Hello, from Edmonton, Alberta.
Making eye contact with your audience...
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@Bob Layton then I guess she was just afraid of the puppet sadly
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@April Brucker That's sad. It seems that there are some people that have forgotten how to be kids and enjoy seeing puppets...
How do you deal with bad restaurant owners?
Hey guys, I guess I'm just writing to see your opinions and also to express myself a little bit. Yesterday I had a gig at a local restaurant in my hometown here in Spain. I had been asked to perform a whole 40-50 minute show. I even have screenshots with the messages. And so, I went to the restaurant to prepare everything and they told me my performance couldn't last more than 20 minutes. So I had to cut more than half of the script I had written. I was also told that there was a sound equipment there. Usually, when I perform in other places, the sound equipments are arleady prepared and I don't have to worry about anyhing other than the soundtracks and indicating the exact moments in which they have to sound. Thank god I took my portable microphone, cause they had no microphones there, and the speakers weren't even there, they were kept in the kitchen of the place. Usually when I perform in any place, there's always at least one person taking care of all those things, and here there was nobody, my soundtrack depended on a waitress literally. The owner got mad at me saying that I was very irresponsible (even though I had asked him before if he wanted me to take one of my speakers for example, but he had said no), inmature and that I hadn't rehearsed. Obviously I had rehearsed, I had rehearsed a 50 minute show, which is what I was asked to do, not a 20 minute one. So, when it came the time to perform I was honestly collapsing but I continued and in the end I enjoyed performing. There were also two magicians performing there (40-50 year old magicians) starring at me with an angry look and saying mean comments comparing me (a 23 year old ventriloquist, who is just starting in show business) with the most famous spanish ventriloquist of the moment, who has been in show business for like 25 years. I don't know, looking at it from another perspective, I think that the situation is unacceptable, and also much much older people with much more experience in life than me, shouldn't be so mean with someone young trying to make a living out of this. Has anything like this ever happened to you? How do you deal with it?
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Clau Cepa
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@clau-cepa-2466
23 year old ventriloquist, puppeteer, props maker, comedian and clown. Spain's National Stand-up Comedy Semi-finalist in 2026 with ventriloquism acts

Active 6h ago
Joined May 6, 2026
Madrid