ventriloquist

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“This one is Lamb Chop,” he said, cradling a brittle rubber head that is all that remained of a hand puppet that was the television ventriloquist Shari Lewis’s sidekick.

From New York Times

Franken only recently began explicitly mentioning the fallout onstage, but glancingly, with a bit involving a masked ventriloquist’s dummy named Petey who wants to talk about how he was treated by his Democratic colleagues.

From New York Times

Also at both those locations will be Lamb Chop, perhaps the most memorable — and feistiest — sock puppet of all time, who appeared on children’s television for 40 years with her ventriloquist co-star, Shari Lewis.

From New York Times

But Gross was not always a world-traveling comedian, magician and “skilled ventriloquist.”

From Seattle Times

“It was like our writers had a ventriloquist’s dummy. They could put any words into his mouth.”

From Los Angeles Times