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 ...

Sir Walter Wally, Raleigh's favorite groundhog, saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter on Sunday at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Wally's forecast contradicted that of ...

“Rubbing alcohol,” Mortimer Snerd once observed, “doesn’t improve its flavor.” Snerd, of course, was a dummy, but the Jim Beam Distilling Company didn’t hold that against him or his pal Charlie ...

For centuries Kasperle, a long-nosed marionette with the virtues of Galahad and the deportment of Mortimer Snerd, has been muddling his way to victory over the villains of Germany’s popular puppet ...

Wow. That was one underwhelming headline you had on the front page on July 25: "Mueller: Trump not exonerated." After Robert Mueller's congressional testimony, which brought back memories of ...

Murry Waas for the National Journal reports on what Bush told Fitz. Basically, the story is that Charlie McCarthy told Edgar Bergen to do whatever was needed doing to make embarrassing information go ...

The Smith-Corona typewriter Larry Lujack used to write his famed "Animal Stories" bits on WLS Radio and Edgar Bergen's original ventriloquist dummies - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie ...

I went to a luncheon the other day to honor a long-time newsman, and the spcial entertainment was a ventriloquist. He used two dummies, and even had two people come up from the audience and he talked ...