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The Important Cinema Club

#423 - Ventriloquists on The Big Screen

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It doesn't matter if they can see their lips moving! We discuss real-life ventriloquists on the big screen, which include Edgar Bergen, Paul Winchell and... Uh... Yea, basically those two. Charlie McCarthy, Knucklehead Smiff and Jerry Mahoney are all discussed at length. Did you know Charlie had multiple movies where he's treated like a real person who is very horny? Tune in and learn! Send us stuff c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan and you're also here with

0:09.6

my good friend Oswald. Hello, I'm Oswald. Oh, hey, Oswald. How's it going today? It's real good.

0:16.7

For people at home, I mean, I know that you guys are used to hearing ventriloquist dummies on the radio like Edgar Bergen used to do back in the day. And so Will is actually... Edgar Bergen, who's that? And so Will is actually holding his hand up, pretending to talk through it. And talking out of the side of his mouth. I'm not talking out of the side of my mouth. This is my friend Oswald. Oh, Oswald.

0:38.3

You know, I'm Oswald.

0:39.3

Will, you are such a handsome man. I think you need to be pleasured. Oh, Oswald. Well, I mean, you need to meet my friend too. Do, how's it going? It's me, Biff. Now, this is really important because every ventriloquist needs one kind of smart ass dummy and then needs one really dumb dummy.

1:00.5

Yeah. And so we got both of them. And I mean, you got the same, you got the same chemistry on this podcast, too.

1:08.6

You know, we're continuing forms because ventriloquism, of course, as everyone knows,

1:13.6

it's the art of the airwaves.

1:15.1

Mm-hmm.

1:15.7

The radio.

1:16.5

Yeah, that's right.

1:17.1

Yes.

1:18.0

We're going to get into it.

1:18.9

We're making like jokes and if people know what we're talking about.

1:22.2

So, yes, you need a sassy dummy.

1:24.7

You need a dumb dummy.

1:25.6

But today you also need a bunch of racist dummies. Oh, well, yes. Because the most popular ventriloquist of our time is the racist Jeff Dunham. And people ask us, oh, are you going to do Jeff Dunham? And I said no, because he hasn't really done a narrative film where he's a ventriloquist in it. If he had done a movie, we would have watched it.

1:44.7

We would have watched it.

1:45.5

But it's mostly just stand-up specials, and I'm sorry.

1:47.8

Yeah, we get it. But anyway, this is the ventriloquists in movies episode. Yes. And very crucially, we're not talking about movies about ventriloquist. No, so people are knocking down our doors asking us if we're doing Danny Kay's knock on wood.

2:02.1

And I said, no.

2:03.1

You know, no, Richard Attenborough's magic. Yep. No dummy starring Adrian Brody. Wait, that one about a ventriloquist dummy? I assume. I haven't seen it. You just assume because the title is dummy? No, no. Well, it does have a ventriloquist dummy in it.

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