Ventriloquist
noun
A person who can speak or make sounds so that they seem to be coming from somewhere else, especially an entertainer who makes their voice appear to come from a dummy of a person or animal.
The ventriloquist brought the dummy to life with his skills.
Often appears as...
- ventriloquist dummy
- ventriloquist show
noun
A person who can speak or make sounds so that they seem to be coming from somewhere else, especially an entertainer who makes their voice appear to come from a dummy of a person or animal.
The ventriloquist brought the dummy to life with his skills.
Often appears as...
- ventriloquist dummy
- ventriloquist show
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Pro Tip 1/3Entertainment Context
Used primarily in entertainment, like comedy and magic shows where speech appears to come from elsewhere.
The ventriloquist kept the audience laughing with his clever act.
Pro Tip 2/3Dummy Association
Often involves a 'dummy' or puppet that looks like a small person or animal, to which the voice is attributed.
She practiced with her ventriloquist dummy every day.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Misconception
Some might think it's just 'throwing' your voice, but it's a complex skill involving speech and puppetry.
Becoming a talented ventriloquist takes years of practice.
Pro Tip 1/3Entertainment Context
Used primarily in entertainment, like comedy and magic shows where speech appears to come from elsewhere.
The ventriloquist kept the audience laughing with his clever act.
Pro Tip 2/3Dummy Association
Often involves a 'dummy' or puppet that looks like a small person or animal, to which the voice is attributed.
She practiced with her ventriloquist dummy every day.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Misconception
Some might think it's just 'throwing' your voice, but it's a complex skill involving speech and puppetry.
Becoming a talented ventriloquist takes years of practice.
Pro Tip 1/3Entertainment Context
Used primarily in entertainment, like comedy and magic shows where speech appears to come from elsewhere.
The ventriloquist kept the audience laughing with his clever act.
Pro Tip 2/3Dummy Association
Often involves a 'dummy' or puppet that looks like a small person or animal, to which the voice is attributed.
She practiced with her ventriloquist dummy every day.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Misconception
Some might think it's just 'throwing' your voice, but it's a complex skill involving speech and puppetry.
Becoming a talented ventriloquist takes years of practice.
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Video examples
What color is Tuesday?...
It so happens that sight, sound, and movement already map to one another so closely, that even bad ventriloquists convince us that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes,
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
philosophy is to expand the scope and scale of consciousness that we may better understand the nature of the universe elon one of the things that was most touching last week was uh was seeing you hang out with your kids um here's if i may it looks vaguely like a ventriloquist
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Video examples
What color is Tuesday?...
It so happens that sight, sound, and movement already map to one another so closely, that even bad ventriloquists convince us that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes,
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
philosophy is to expand the scope and scale of consciousness that we may better understand the nature of the universe elon one of the things that was most touching last week was uh was seeing you hang out with your kids um here's if i may it looks vaguely like a ventriloquist
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Advice from the world’s...
strip club and okay a sustainable and sustainable goat herder a transgender ventriloquist certain professions are so freaky and marginal that they sound more
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Quote examples
Dennis DeYoung
American Musician
Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.
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Darci Lynne Farmer
American Entertainer
I don't really want to be known as just the puppet girl or just a singing ventriloquist. I want to be known as the performer, singer, ventriloquist, actress, Broadway star, all of it. I want do it all.
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Ricky Jay
American Actor
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.
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Wendy Liebman
American Comedian
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
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Jeff Dunham
American Comedian
There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
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Alexander Theroux
American Novelist
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
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Paul Winchell
American Entertainer
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
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Alan King
American Comedian
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
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Bud Luckey
American Artist
People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.
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Aaron Sorkin
American Screenwriter
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Quote examples
Dennis DeYoung
American Musician
Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.
Quote examples
Darci Lynne Farmer
American Entertainer
I don't really want to be known as just the puppet girl or just a singing ventriloquist. I want to be known as the performer, singer, ventriloquist, actress, Broadway star, all of it. I want do it all.
Quote examples
Ricky Jay
American Actor
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.
Quote examples
Wendy Liebman
American Comedian
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
Quote examples
Jeff Dunham
American Comedian
There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
Quote examples
Alexander Theroux
American Novelist
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Quote examples
Paul Winchell
American Entertainer
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
Quote examples
Alan King
American Comedian
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
Quote examples
Bud Luckey
American Artist
People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.
Quote examples
Aaron Sorkin
American Screenwriter
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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