Ididn’t get around to seeing “Murphy Brown” the other night. Murphy’s snappy comeback to Dan Quayle’s stab at single-motherhood really didn’t interest me. After all these months and all this ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA AUSTIN CURTIS, 83, puppeteer who created Clippo the Clown and sculpted for Edgar Bergen the puppet that became Mortimer Snerd, Charlie McCarthy’s prime foil, died recently. Curtis got into ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham got his career started with a Mortimer Snerd dummy, but luckily, his contemporary characters aren't nearly as creepy and are much funnier, and he's bringing them ...