VENTRILOQUIS

MHow To Speak Without Moving Your Lips

What is ventriloquism?

Ventriloquism is the

art of producing

vocal sounds that

appear to come

from another source

(e.g. from a wooden

dummy).

So how did ventriloquism begin? • Ancient times: The earliest record of

ventriloquism being used was in the sixth century B.C. at a temple built by Greeks in Delphi.

• Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice.

• VENTRILOQUISM Latin: to speak

from the stomach - venter (belly), loqui

(speak). Earlier known as belly

speakers.

• The Greeks called this gastromancy.

‘Never trust a ventriloquist or a Barber’

AUTOMATOPHOBIA

• Irrational fear, persistent and intense to mannequins, ventriloquist dolls, electronically animated creatures or

wax status.

• People who suffer from this illness cannot go to museums, churches,

shopping centers, theme parks or to get close to certain public monuments.

Edgar Bergen and

Charlie McCarthy

W.C. Fields

How to speak without moving your lips?

1. Firstly learn to pronounce letters

with your mouth open slightly.

2. Try to change your voice.

3. Bring your new friend to life.

4. Try to find a dummy that will fit

that character.

5. Convince yourself that your

partner is completely alive.

6. Have fun with it.

Troublemakers

Today

Jeff Dunham with Bubba J, Ahmed The Dead

Terrorist, Peanut and Walter

Peanut

• Jeff: Peanut, did you

know you lost a shoe?

• Peanut: No man, I found

one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6yksaCcR4s

Ventriloquists in Poland

• Paweł Górka (Bydgoszcz)

• Wojciech Glanc (Sopot)

Nina Conti

• Born in 1974; an English actress, comedian and ventriloquist.

• Her most popular vent character: a depressed monkey named Monk.

• Nina Contion Russel Howard’s

Good News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4BB1TZcO_o

“I am the Love Ventriloquist.

And if you say I’m not, I’ll say

it so it sounds like you said

I am.”

Jarod Kinz

‘Dummy’

• Comedy-drama film

from 2002 with Adrien

Brody and Milla

Jovovich

• written and directed by

Greg Pritkin

The end

Kevin the Alien

Discusses the English Languagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB3g7PcF1vs