Let’s take notes on purchasing your ventriloquist partner. Choose a ventriloquist figure that you like looking at simply because you are going to be spending a lot of time together..in the beginning you may not have the money to get the ventriloquist partner that you really want so a sock will be just fine to get you started. A handmade sock puppet is very affordable,so start performing with a nice looking sock puppet,start practicing with a nice looking sock puppet and start rehearsing with the nice looking sock puppet. When you’re ready for the ventriloquist figure that you really want then lay the sock puppet down and pick up the ventriloquist dummy that you really want, doing it this way you don’t miss a beat, you can continue on going because the only thing that changed was the ventriloquist figure. Let me be clear maybe the sock puppet is the ventriloquist partner that you really want, many famous ventriloquist use a sock puppet, and many professional ventriloquist use sock puppet. I used all types of ventriloquist dummies on stage, I have own some very expensive ventriloquist figure and I prefer the semi pro ventriloquist doll, simply because I am a writer and the material is what I mainly focus on.when I use a full size professional ventriloquist figure on stage it seems to be distraction to me, the semi pro is light weight and in my eyes view,this means easy for animation and control. The word on the street is the professional size ventriloquist dummy is good for close up and distance audiences, but I have used semi-pro ventriloquist figures for far and near audiences,it works for me because of the comedy writing. do you need a professional size ventriloquist figure? only you can answer that question, but remember you are a ventriloquist and a ventriloquist is a artist and a creator,this means what works for Willie Tyler and Lester or Terry fator or the ventriloquist at your birthday party might not work for you.
being a ventriloquist you are a actor, being a ventriloquist you are a magician. Your ventriloquist partner will help you fulfill both these skills. The reason the ventriloquist speaks with out moving the lips is because the ventriloquist is a magician creating an illusion that the voice is coming from the ventriloquist figure, the actor is in the ventriloquist figure that he is a real person and the great illusion is creating “the illusion of life” what is the illusion of life?… the illusion of life is what ventriloquist Megan piphus is very skillful at,and I must also say standing directly in front of ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester is like being in a dream,I am a ventriloquist but it’s still kinda spooky,.let me give you a true story of creating the illusion of life effect by ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester,one day I was a volunteer as a teenager for one of Willie Tyler and Lester skits, you know where the performer ask for a volunteer from the audience to come up on stage,well there I was on stage in front of a live large audience,I always wanted to meet Lester and boy let me tell you did I meet Lester!,I was not even one feet from him when Lester started to talk to me, I felt like wow this is really something, like just amazing. lester seem so real, so life like,I will never forget that day…I said all that to say choose the ventriloquist partner you really want and your magic will come to life.