Radio ventriliquism? Trying to get my head round that. I rekon I could have had a stab at that on the radio myself.
He did do TV as well but even so.
Then there was the one with lead actor aged 35 playing a cheeky schoolboy. He kept playing until he was 50.
The clitheroe kid. Not a vent just odd.
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Archie Andrews was the puppet not the vent 
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Love Jimmy Clithero, the sound track of my youth… They play Re Runs on BBC Radio 4 extra from time to time and it’s still funny to me 
In America, it was Edgar Bergen (Candice’s father) and his dummy Charlie McCarthy.
The laugh was that when TV came along people discovered that his lips moved, consequently impacting the whole ventriloquism bit.
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From last year
Good list here
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Hitting all the bases.
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That’s the weirdest thing. In black and white even the worst album covers seem to acquire an artistic intent. 
Maybe make it Sepia makes it classier still …
I think the colour made it brash , it was the CD release, i had the original 3LP box
That’s better. All done.
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My hero yet again
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Bought along with Troutmask Replica from a 2nd hand store in 1982. Troutmask went back the next day.
There was a second dummy used in some skits. Can you name him?
I could, of course, use Wikipeida, but I think it was something like Snerd?
My admiration for your not using Google. Yes, it was Mortimer Snerd. At first I thought it might have been Paul Winchell (sp?) who used Mortimer Snerd. Good job.
I cannot recall why we owned those albums.
It seems my head is full of useless factoids.
My excuse was that I was probably about 7 at the time and had to listen to whatever my parents bought. 