I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...

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 ...

“Silence, I’ll keel you!” is a phrase you wouldn’t particularly hear every day, unless you’re famous comedian Jeff Dunham. Dunham first delved into the world of ventriloquism at age 8, when his ...

HIS popularity on YouTube turned comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham into a $20 million-a-year artist. He's in Melbourne tonight. It started with a toy dummy named, charmingly, Mortimer Snerd - a ...

HERNDON, Va., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The late ventriloquist Edgar Bergen used a dummy named Mortimer Snerd, a character so dumb everything required a full explanation. Finally understanding, Mortimer would ...