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- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is just the big laugh.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
- Couple Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it was nothing. So through the bad shows, I never wanted to quit.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy.
- Nut
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.
- Fingers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more 'real' and charming when the characters aren't perfect. It's the difference between anything that's built by a computer and machine versus the same thing being made by hand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
- Amazingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
- Geek
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- Nov 07, 2020