ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now it summons up horror movies about a homicidal dummy, or a homicidal ventriloquist, or ...

I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...

ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now it summons up horror movies about a homicidal dummy, or a homicidal ventriloquist, or ...

Jeff Dunham is the first to say he wouldn't be a ventriloquist if it weren't for Edgar Bergan. At about the age of 8, in fact, he received a replica of Bergen's puppet Mortimer Snerd, thereby starting ...

Born May 9, 1946, in Beverly Hills, California to famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and model Frances Westerman Bergen, Candice Patricia Bergen got her start in showbiz as part of her father’s puppet ...