FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Winston Pearson Jr. wears many hats. He’s a father and loving husband, the pastor at The Church of Jesus in Fort Wayne, a talented musician, and a ventriloquist. Unlike the ...

Ventriloquist Sylvia Fletcher is making her first appearance at the Florida State Fair after a 30-year career of entertaining audiences and visiting schools to teach important life lessons on literacy ...

“I love to use my imagination. Whenever I’m reading I love to imagine it, it’s like a movie theater in my mind.” That was one of the first things ventriloquist Ian Varella told children who came to ...

If you ask me, it doesn’t pay to be a dummy — a ventriloquist’s dummy, that is. For one thing, he’s made of wood, and for another, he spends his entire existence being manipulated by someone else.

Lizzie has been tucked in a wooden trunk bearing her name and stowed inside Linda Mae Glader’s closet for more than 40 years. But the dummy — a handcrafted ventriloquist doll with striking blue eyes, ...

Ventriloquist Todd Oliver is a Southern Baptist. His sidekick, Irving the Talking Dog, is -- at most -- spiritual but not religious. The duo, who have appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman," ...

'America's Got Talent' winner Paul Zerdin shows USA TODAY's Carly Mallenbaum how to say hello like a ventroliquist. Let's just say she shouldn't quit her day job. More Videos The Humankind Connection: ...