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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

Dennis Lee teaches children important life lessons not in a classroom but onstage with funny puppet characters. He is a ventriloquist that has visited public schools for 25 years teaching children ...

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," ...

Pioneering ventriloquist-comedian Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester have appeared in numerous shows since the 1960s. Adam Sandler's new Netflix comedy special makes it hard to tell what's real and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An 8-year-old boy with a rare form of bone cancer, got quite the surprise Friday. The boy loves ventriloquists. On Friday, a famous ventriloquist in the country paid him a ...

Despite the gloomy skies outside Thursday evening, there were plenty of laughs inside Sterling Public Library thanks to a visit from Joshua the Ventriloquist. The Summer Reading Program performer ...

Nacho Estrada performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio in the early 1990s. Credit: UTSA Libraries Special Collections / Informedia San Antonio ventriloquist, comedian and motivational ...