I question the sanity of all ventriloquists and the taste of anyone who feels ventriloquism is entertaining.
And then there's DISTURBING.
Tiny dummy voice: "I toooold you you'd beeee sorrrryyyyyyy."
Image by Olivia Ross.
[Like most people on Earth,] I hate ventriloquist acts. It's the strangest form of entertainment. In fact, it's barely entertainment. I think that's why movies like MAGIC are so much fun. Throwing one's voice into rigid shiny plastic/wooden lips is so unnatural - and frightening.
We watched a film called DEAD OF NIGHT last night and one segment featured a ventriloquist dummy with a mind of its own. The dummy is rude and vulgar and at one point insults his human attachment, garnering him a slap in the face. The audience gasps at the sight of the dummy getting whaled on by the sweaty and disturbed ventriloquist. A wonderful scene that got me wondering about those ventriloquists that are still out there performing. I'd love to see an act designed around movies like MAGIC and DEAD OF NIGHT. Where the dummy starts being rude, crude, and vile, as it brings up personal and devastating facts about the agitated ventriloquist. Make it a tormented twisted (and funny) experience for the audience. It'd be pure gold, black comedy gold.
"You'll be sorrrrrrry."
International Ventriloquist Association
How the very first ventriloquist act wasn't quickly beaten down is way beyond me.
