In 1970, Jeff Dunham was given a Mortimer Snerd dummy, a gift from his parents. Twenty years later, at age 28, he made his first appearance, along with Peanut, on "The Tonight Show." Dunham could’ve ...

I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...

“Silence, I’ll keel you!” is a phrase you wouldn’t particularly hear every day, unless you’re famous comedian Jeff Dunham. Dunham first delved into the world of ventriloquism at age 8, when his ...

Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham got his career started with a Mortimer Snerd dummy, but luckily, his contemporary characters aren't nearly as creepy and are much funnier, and he's bringing them ...

Jeff Dunham is the first to say he wouldn't be a ventriloquist if it weren't for Edgar Bergan. At about the age of 8, in fact, he received a replica of Bergen's puppet Mortimer Snerd, thereby starting ...

For centuries Kasperle, a long-nosed marionette with the virtues of Galahad and the deportment of Mortimer Snerd, has been muddling his way to victory over the villains of Germany’s popular puppet ...

Wow. That was one underwhelming headline you had on the front page on July 25: "Mueller: Trump not exonerated." After Robert Mueller's congressional testimony, which brought back memories of ...