Last week’s leaderboard winners are: 🥇Kristina Michel 🥈Regina Hochenegger 🥉Tommy Manzie Thank you all so much for making The Ventriloquists’ Guild a wonderful place to be. You’re all winners!

Thank you for accepting me into this forum. I look forward learning and sharing with the group (:

Today is the birthday of Willie Tyler of “Laugh In” fame. Willie and Lester were the first series of regulars of color on a network show, and have been blazing trails and making audiences laugh ever since. Have a good day, Willie.

I don't know what happened to Wally and Waldo on here, but good to see he's still going and placed first in Acadiana's got talent. Well done Waldo, and of course Wally too

Hi all. A few weeks ago I placed first in our county-wide talent contest which earned me the opportunity to compete in the state competition. Well, that started today (Fri., 8/28/28) at the NYS Fair. Today was the first of 5 preliminaries. There are 58 contestants in the MAXI division (ages 13 and up) and a bunch more in the MINI division (12 and under). Anyway, I had the privilege of being the very first act of the entire contest. If I do say so myself, it went great! I have to do the same routine as I did at the county fair and I had the same responses. The audience was eating it up and even the judges were laughing. One was laughing so hard she had to put her pen down to wipe her eyes. Anyway, I made the cut and I'm going to the Semi-finals next Friday. Same routine, hopefully the same results. I'll keep you posted. (BTW, the routine is posted in my profile.)