{"id":2162,"date":"2020-03-07T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobliotta.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2020-03-11T23:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:06:42","slug":"why-learn-ventriloquism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobliotta.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Why learn Ventriloquism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I started performing on stage over 55 years. When I was 17, I entered the High School Talent Show with my impersonation of a popular comedian named Shelley Berman. This comedian was brilliant, a veteran of the New York coffee houses and Colleges and Universities.he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording in 1959. His routine was about a drunk at a party. I was in high school. I did all his material for a few years after hi-school. I performed as the front man with my band at parties and such. I continued doing my standup in Talent Shows to larger and larger teenage gatherings, the largest was the Southern US Hi-Y conference. The audience was 750 people., I was 19.<\/p>\n

For years I enjoyed the accolades, I called myself a stand-up comedian, but the accolades were not mine to enjoy, I was mimicking Berman. I tried to perform my own material for the frat parties at U of Miami in Florida. I bombed! They appreciated the drunk routine but walked away when I started my own. I continued playing in bar bands until I joined the Air Force in 1965.<\/p>\n

I wanted to present original material. On some level I knew I had to prepare it and rehearse it. I let that failure paralize me from doing the hard work to learn How to write comedy material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So when I met the Magic Man, Dale Schulman who called my bluff and booked me on one of his magic shows as a ventriloquist.<\/p>\n

After that we worked on material together.\u00a0 As I learned to Evoke the puppet. Hi name was JoJo and was a modified wrap around chimp puppet. And I welcomed someone to share the stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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