In 1970, Jeff Dunham was given a Mortimer Snerd dummy, a gift from his parents. Twenty years later, at age 28, he made his first appearance, along with Peanut, on “The Tonight Show.” Dunham could’ve ...

Stitch the lip and swap one glove for a puppet as Alexandra Coghlan mumbles through the best ventriloquists on film ...

Thursday (October 22) night at 8, Comedy Central further taps the Jeff Dunham phenomenon. This time, it's a regular series, for which ventriloquist Dunham takes his dummy characters – Achmed the Dead ...

Ventriloquist Paul Zerdin -- seen here with, from left, Albert, Sam and Baby -- brings his show to New Brunswick's Stress Factory Comedy Club in March. It's weird to interview a ventriloquist like ...

When 9-year-old Jeff Dunham received a toy ventriloquist dummy for Christmas, he began practicing and dreaming of characters who could say what nobody else would dare. More than 50 years later, Dunham ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS – Ventriloquist and “America’s Got Talent” winner Terry Fator has sidelined his President Donald Trump puppet to scrub politics out of his stage show. The puppet – complete with a pop-up ...