#ventriloquists

The secret to this essay is that the title is a pun. And yes, I know you probably don’t find it very punny. But I wanted to talk about the difficulties of portraying the difficulties of communication in a talk-a-lot-sometimes-talk-too-much world. Yes, my current work in progress, Fools and their Toys, is about a man who can hardly talk at all because of undiagnosed autism who suddenly,…

Dummy Days: America’s Favorite Ventriloquists

Today would have been the birthday of Kelly Asbury (b. 1960) but for the fact that he passed just recently, in mid-2020 in the depths of the pandemic’s first wave (though the cause was stomach cancer). Asbury may not been a household name but he was a big man in the animation field for nearly 40 years. His biggest credits were having directed Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), Smurfs: The Lost Village…

You read that right. @Kpierce624 was having a bit too much fun on YouTube this week. Come check out the: Ticklish Business 5: Favorite Ventriloquists #ClassicTelevision

Humor me. This is a bit of a guilty pleasure piece. I should potentially give this one a warning… If you have a fear of dolls, you might want to close this one. Some could find the coming content… Unsettling. Ventriloquists are a bit of a relic now. YouTube and the yearly airings of America…Britain… (You get the point’s) Got Talent shows that the art form is still clinging to at least a bit of…