Just a little improvised ventriloquism demo I made today. 
Great work Terry. 
I will have a watch when my mum doesnât have the bloody soap awards on soooo loud!!
Wow, your voice was totally coming out of my left rear speaker! And I donât have rear speakers! 
Terry, you had me in stitches. You certainly are a multi talented individual .
That was pretty cool man! 
I havenât ever had the opertunity to see a ventriloquist liveâŠCan you guys throw your voice further than just in front of you, like behind the audience??
He is not throwing his voice
No knock against Terry, he made a funny clip, and IMHO is a talented ventriloquist. Because his lips did not match what we were hearing, the brain changes what we hear to match what it is seeing. This is known as the McGurk effect. Perhaps Terry can clarify, but I donât think he can throw his voice behind you. He has learned to talk and emote without moving his lips. The sound is still coming out of his mouth, that it seems it is not, is a brain error, we read faces and lips, and that changes our experience of hearing.
Anyway, great show Terry !
Here is a short vid that will explain what you are really hearing. He doesnât (no one can ), throw his voice anywhere.
I donât wanna watch this vidâŠItâll spoil the magic for me 
Haha, I should have put âquotesâ around the thread title. There is no such thing as actually throwing oneâs voice. It is a physical impossibility to transport your voice out of your mouth and have it originate from somewhere else.
With sufficient distance between the ventriloquist and his audience, and/or close proximity between the vent and his puppet, phone, suit case, etc., the effect can seem very real. One thing I came to realize early on, was that after a show the thing you donât want to hear is, âwow, I watched you the whole time and never saw your lips move!â
That tells me they were not caught up in the show, the character(s) and the performance as intended. Later, when I honed my skills and got better, I would hear, âI really enjoyed you and Jack, heâs quite a character, and you two had my laughing all the way through!â That is what you want to hear.
So, the technical aspect of ventriloquism is only one facet of the art. Original characters, great writing, timing and manipulation are of utmost importance to pulling off a good performance. I would much rather see a ventriloquist with a great and memorable character, with superb timing, great jokes and stage presence, vs a technically perfect vent with none of those other qualities. Of course, itâs always great to have ALL of those qualities.
I love to fake people out when I get a âcallâ on my cell, carry on a âconversationâ, tell the unsuspecting person the call is for them. I hand them the phone and they always say âhelloâ?, literally expecting to hear a voice on the phone! 
My favorite all-time ventriloquist was Edgar Bergen. Admittedly, he was not the greatest at lip control, owing to his many years starring on his top rated radio show in the 1940âs, where he could move his lips a bit more, unseen by the audience at home, in order to make Charlie McCarthy more clearly understood. It was a habit that he found hard to break later on.
But he was a supreme showman, writer, actor and his characters of Charlie, Mortimer, Effie, etc, became world famous and are all now enshrined at the Smithsonian. I was fortunate enough and honored to have met him in 1978, shortly before he passed away. I also met and reminisced about him with his famous daughter, Candice Bergen, some years ago.
Wow Terry! Any other talents you are cultivating? Walk on water? Raise the dead?
Pick up lines that work everytime?
Do you also fight crime in your spare moments?
JD
Hereâs a little 3-way improv I did with âJack Squatâ and the âdominoes guyâ on the phone. Riding a unicycle is a great physical workout. Doing this is a mental one for sure, haha!
I found a vid of an old friend , with âClarenceâ
The quality of the vid could be better, but it is the jokes that make the act. Birdy Mclain and Clarence. You can skip to about 3 :30 to get to the right part of this clip.
The video quality isnât as much the problem as the audio; itâs really hard to understand the dialog. Iâm surprised that for the video being uploaded more than 2 years ago, it only has a mere 32 views! I think the title has something to do with it probably being hard to find in searches.
I did find this story about Mclain losing his dummy.
Terry, I like your Jack Squat vid
My only criticism is your delivery is a bit rushed. The characters and material is funny, but you are a bit like some over practiced guitar players, they do the licks to fast. Jerry Garcia was not in a rush, and neither was Carlin, or Hedburg. Your stuff is good, but you are not pausing to let us laugh. You are a florist with good flowers, but you are not pausing while we smell them.
While looking for the Birdy- Clarence vid, I found this one from the same show.
Itâs slightly off the subject, but Murph does a lot of funny uni riding stuff here, so I wanted you guys to see it. He was a gymnast, who sort of went off in a Buster Keaton- stooges direction.
Yeah, when Iâm improvising at home, sometimes I like to see how fast I can do all the voices; itâs great practice and improves my ability to stay sharp and think fast. Iâve performed in lots of clubs, cruise ships, TV, commercials and so on, and when in front of an audience, I definitely wait for the laugh, which hopefully comes at the intended times, haha!
But I also have been known to ad lib quite often, and one time, while performing at the Laugh Factory in Hollywoodâyes, the same place Seinfeldâs Michael Richards (Kramer) had his infamous melt downâI was doing a distant voice bit. After the bit, at the tail end of the audience applause, some guy yelled out, âheâs on drugs!ââŠThe audience laughed, and then without missing a beat, I said, âThat was ME by the way!â
That brought the house down, and after my show I was signed by the agent who had come to see me. Adam Sandler was there as well, and came up to me after the show and shook my hand and had nice things to say. Very cool and down to earth guy.
Hereâs an example of a classic Abbot & Costello routine I did, truncated a bit. The dialog is purposely fast paced and the timing is good. If performed in front of an audience it would be nearly as fast. Bit itâs much easier to time your routines by the rhythm of the audience reactions. Without the audience, the spaces are filled in more.
Yeah, that clip is terrible
Itâs a perfect example of what I was saying though.
It is not enough to be great. Uni, juggling, magic, even comedy, you can have great talent, and still be mediocre as a performer.
Your "whoâs on first " vid sucks Renee Zellyâs lips on a cold day. Itâs just dry and technical. You are better than you feel you are. Never forget it takes time for people to feel your notes, or to laugh at your jokes. You are going to fast.
Thanks Harley. Iâm making a little routine using your sig!
Haha, thanks.
It seems I have a heretofore unknown talent for bringing out the âMr. Hydeâ in a certain poster! 
Thatâs funny. And not altogether untrue. Notice heâs otherwise being encouraging for the most part.
But Terryâs doing short videos for a YouTube audience, with no live audience to be found. The pace is probably about right, though the Whoâs On First bit is probably too fast for someone whoâs never heard it before. I imagine the timing would be very different in the presence of an actual audience.
Thanks John
I would love to kiss Renee Zelly, even on a cold day. It would taste like sucking the worldâs coldest, driest, and tastiest lemon. It would still suck, but she is pretty cool and tasty. OK, I am just guessing that, but we all know itâd be true if we could do it.
Terry is thin skinned, like a cat. I am a duck. If you piss on a cat, you can make it feel bad, chase it away.
Empathy, I used to think, meant treating others as you would want them to treat you. The âgolden ruleâ , gets a bit of rust when you mix ducks with cats.
âCat, I would say, why are you crying ?â, this is because I love the cat and I really do care. Cat tells me itâs crying because itâs raining and people are pissing on it. Loving the cat , I try to cheer it up by pointing out that it is a yellow cat. I am a duck.
You are to thin skinned Terry. I know I canât change you into a duck. Ducks are born, and we really canât care if people piss on (criticize) us.
Cats are more common than ducks. They canât fly, or call others quacks with any feeling of authority. It is impossible to chase a duck out of a pond it likes by pissing on it. You are a yellow cat. Also, your delivery is to fast to get the comedic effect you are capable of. You are to good for yourself, to fast, just to fast. I know this stuff. Instead of seeing this as me pissing on you, take to heart my impression that your skills and material is good, but you rush. Funny takes time.
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But then what does a duck know about spelling?
(Well, it made me laughâŠIâll get my coat)