Jamie Leahey performs on America’s Got Talent: All-Stars
He’s only 13, but Jamie Leahey already made the finals of Britain’s Got Talent last year and got invited to AGT: All-Stars. Jamie says he …
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Terry Fator performs on America’s Got Talent: All-Stars
NBC kicked off 2023 with an all-star competition edition of America’s Got Talent, and AGT season 2 winner Terry Fator — who has made major …
Continue ReadingEpisode #414: Jeff Dunham
Jeff Dunham is undoubtedly the most successful ventriloquist comedian of our lifetime. The 60-year-old from Dallas made his first appearance on The Tonight Show back in 1990, …
Continue ReadingJack Williams performs on the semifinals of America’s Got Talent
Jack Williams pulled out some extra tricks for his semifinal performance on America’s Got Talent 2022, with multiple dummies onstage and taking requests from Twitter. …
Continue ReadingJack Williams auditions for America’s Got Talent
People still love ventriloquism. Or at least the people who watch America’s Got Talent still do. Three vents have won AGT over the years, and …
Continue ReadingMichael Paul auditions for America’s Got Talent 2019
Three times, ventriloquists have won America’s Got Talent. Could Michael Paul be the fourth? It certainly helped that the Philly vent opened his act with a bit of a misdirect, telling the judges and audience he was actually an exotic bird trainer.
Continue ReadingHow Jeff Dunham’s offensive puppets became the voice of Trump’s America
From José the Mexican immigrant to Achmed the dead terrorist, his foul-mouthed puppets have made him one of the richest comedians on the planet. How will the ventriloquist go down in Britain?
Jeff Dunham is on a high. He has just played to a sell-out crowd in the Texas city of San Antonio. Any other ventriloquist would be happy with an audience of a few hundred, maybe in their wildest dreams a thousand. But Dunham and his cast of dummies pulled in a whopping 19,000 fans – and every one of them seemed to have had a riotously fun evening.
“Other comedians,” he says, “must be scratching their heads and thinking, ‘How the hell is this happening?’ It’s like aliens were looking down and saying, ‘Here’s how we’re going to screw up Earth. We’ll make a reality TV guy the president – who 60% of people hate – and then, here’s something weirder, we’ll make this ventriloquist guy so successful he sells out stadiums.’”
The crowd roar with laughter when Achmed curses: ‘God damn it! I mean – Allah damn it!’
Continue ReadingHow Jeff Dunham’s offensive puppets became the voice of Trump’s America
From José the Mexican immigrant to Achmed the dead terrorist, his foul-mouthed puppets have made him one of the richest comedians on the planet. How will the ventriloquist go down in Britain?
Jeff Dunham is on a high. He has just played to a sell-out crowd in the Texas city of San Antonio. Any other ventriloquist would be happy with an audience of a few hundred, maybe in their wildest dreams a thousand. But Dunham and his cast of dummies pulled in a whopping 19,000 fans – and every one of them seemed to have had a riotously fun evening.
“Other comedians,” he says, “must be scratching their heads and thinking, ‘How the hell is this happening?’ It’s like aliens were looking down and saying, ‘Here’s how we’re going to screw up Earth. We’ll make a reality TV guy the president – who 60% of people hate – and then, here’s something weirder, we’ll make this ventriloquist guy so successful he sells out stadiums.’”
The crowd roar with laughter when Achmed curses: ‘God damn it! I mean – Allah damn it!’
Continue ReadingDarci Lynne performs a duet on the finals of America’s Got Talent 2017
Young ventriloquist Darci Lynne has been the darling of this summer’s 2017 season of America’s Got Talent on NBC, and she proved tough to beat with her final live vote-getting performance Tuesday, singing a duet for two different puppets to “With a Little Help From My Friends.” Find out Wednesday if she wins AGT…roll it!
Continue ReadingReview: Jeff Dunham, “Relative Disaster” on Netflix
No, you’re the puppet! Jeff Dunham is undoubtedly the biggest ventriloquist in the world. By fans. By tickets sold. Dunham set ratings records for Comedy Central, and landed his previous special in primetime for NBC in 2015. Now he’s on Netflix. Because everyone in the comedy game is on Netflix in 2017. His new special […]
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