Jeff Dunham Quotes About Ventriloquism

• I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

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  "Jeff Dunham breathes life into his 'friends' - and a lost art". Interview with Bill DeYoung, savannahnow.com. March 3, 2009.

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• When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

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  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

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  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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