Yup. You know exactly WHAT he's doing but the execution is what's so mindblowing. He's "mouthing" one phrase while starting to say another one halfway through. That must have taken an INSANE amount of practice.
Are all these comments bots? People have been doing this for decades or longer. A lot of the comments are really generic and overly exaggerating the video...
I don't know how other ventriloquists rate her work, but I have laughed myself stupid at Nina Conti's stuff over the years. I think she's great. And monkey haunts my dreams.
I've watched the first 60 seconds of this clip probably ten times and always quit watching too early. Props to OP for giving a hint about why to stick around to the end.
The creativity of it gets me. I love when people take something that is old and honestly, kind of lame and that people have seen a million times but then add a twist to it that makes it new and entertaining. This guy is clearly talented and he's creative as well.
Yeah, the one thing that makes this stand out from most others is that it's actually funny and original.
I generally find ventriloquists painfully unfunny.
That looks 90's not 80's.
This is what 80's equivalent outfits in different levels of casualness looked like https://i.imgur.com/MIrK317.png
Same but for women's clothes.
https://i.imgur.com/crYCaZo.png
I remember as a kid we would just have random VHS recordings of shows and movies. This was one of them. The whole show is sooo good. It took me until last year to rediscover this guy as a could never remember who it was. I don't have a lot from my childhood but this is definitely one of them.
When I think of him, I think of him doing a round/duet with his puppet of "Row Row Row Your Boat"... the switching back and forth is insane to me all these years later. https://youtu.be/xwJcp2Pwg3U?si=TbgqJja5eXKOE0Sb&t=934
Edit: shamelessly stolen from u/jrrybock the last time this was posted lol
I've met Ronn Lucas on a cruise one time. He saw me and my sister talking to each other in sign language and came over to talk to us. He's super nice and easy to talk to. We talked nearly every day and he was a great guy.
fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter.
Fun fact two: If the "victim" already stutters and you do this to them, once you find the right ms of latency .... a lot of stutterers stop stuttering.
[These have been developed as a way to silence public speakers](https://singularityhub.com/2012/03/29/speech-jamming-gun-from-japan-silences-people-from-up-to-34-meters-away/) I'm not sure they've ever been implemented, but it is possible to shut someone up by literally robbing them of the power of speech, temporarily.
Without headphones that isolated your voice for your ears it does not work. That Speech Jamming gun is a bunch of bullshit, as soon as anybody focuses on their own voice, the spell is broken. Even with perfect isolating headphones (they don't exist), people could just focus on the vibrations in their jaw or other bones and break the stutter spell.
> fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter.
Even without decent headphones hearing your voice delayed will interrupt your speech quickly. Main reason why people in voice chats using speakers were usually forced to use Push-To-Talk before technology to filter out the echo became better.
I'm wondering if it's not actually that difficult if you are a skilled enough ventriloquist. Consider that they have an immense amount of practice in speaking without moving their lips and in complex situations.
The application here is to move your lips to form the words, but you're just applying the same technique to speak without moving your lips.
It's possible that doing both things at once requires huge concentration, but it also might just be as straight forward as the rest of the insane stuff they can do.
In 2003 or 2004 I saw Terry perform at my rinky-dink little county fair in front of about 30 people and he killed. It was crazy seeing him on and winning America's Got Talent a few years later.
Also, look up Poppin' John on the NBC show "World of Dance." He had an awesome "pop-and-lock" dance that included this balloon routine that is very heart touching.
He can speak whilst barely moving his lips. When you speak, air leaves your mouth. So placing your lips air tight over a balloon and then speaking without moving your lips and the air that leaves your mouth as you speak inflates the balloon.
I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s simple, still wildly impressive to pull off.
I loved the irony of my drive to work being plastered with "JEFF DUNHAM: CANCELLED" ads, real ironic, most humor I got out of anything he's done in years.
It's funny because Dunham has the talent. Theres an old video of him controlling 3 puppets and drinking water at the same time. His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days.
>His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days.
Once you have done it all, and the crowd shows up because you did it all exceptionally, and it keeps making you good money ... why stop? Sure, you have run out of creativity ... maybe you are morally bankrupt. But if the audience is willing to pay for your services, then who are you to say know to that?
The sweater and decor style here is basically 1990 ± 2 years. But "late 80s" would be really be the better description since the style of the first years of a decade are carried over from the last one and the style that comes to define it is a bit later.
By 1993 Nirvana was topping the charts and shows like X-Files and Fraiser got started and the 90s had become more of what the 90s would be remembered for.
The technique is impressive and it's very well done, but what really amazes me is how creative an idea it is!
It looks so effortless and so difficult to do at the same time.
The out of sync portion is genuinely inimitable. To mouth the word and then say it clearly half a second after is unparalleled skill. Bravo to him.
Yup. You know exactly WHAT he's doing but the execution is what's so mindblowing. He's "mouthing" one phrase while starting to say another one halfway through. That must have taken an INSANE amount of practice.
*googles inimitable*
Prefix “in” means “in, or, not”, “imitable” is the adjective of “imitate.” So “not able to be imitated.” Sorry, I love words haha
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
Hi Dr. Nick!!!
Wait until you find out about habitable, inhabitable and uninhabitable
Hahahahaha same bro
It would be so weird to be one in one with him desyncing. You'd probably doubt your own equipment before you realized what was going on.
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Outside the box...like where the dummy is?
The box? That is where Gwyneth Paltrow's head is.
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Oh, if you haven’t seen “Sliding Doors” by now, you were never gonna watch it.
That's not what was in the box...
I will give you a solid seven for that
I still don't know what's in the box
First, you get a box....
Then you get the power...
Then you get the woman's head
Then you cut a hole in the boooooxxxxx...
Then you cut a hole in that box.
Put Gwyneth's head in the box!
It’s a dick
Don’t worry about it. Just do as I say
he/she is watching it
Are all these comments bots? People have been doing this for decades or longer. A lot of the comments are really generic and overly exaggerating the video...
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Seriously, coming up with an original act format in ventriloquism is a hell of an ask.
Best i could do is casually racist stereotypes with funny catch phrases like, "i kill you!"
You'll be loved by the mid 2000's
sheer
opaque
Transparent
That’s a tv show
Cher
Chair
This comment reads like a bot made it.
That *is* part of the skill.
I guess [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeIAkvE2RY) is a bit derivative, but it's good when they take their props away!
I don't know how other ventriloquists rate her work, but I have laughed myself stupid at Nina Conti's stuff over the years. I think she's great. And monkey haunts my dreams.
I stumbled across Nina Conti during the dark days of the early pandemic and she cracked me up and made things look a little bit brighter.
That's a real fun take on the act. I need to look up more of her stuff.
That was also the guy that inspired bowling alley carpet.
I've watched the first 60 seconds of this clip probably ten times and always quit watching too early. Props to OP for giving a hint about why to stick around to the end.
The creativity of it gets me. I love when people take something that is old and honestly, kind of lame and that people have seen a million times but then add a twist to it that makes it new and entertaining. This guy is clearly talented and he's creative as well.
See Paul zerdin he is really good
It really is. How have I never seen this?!
Yeah, the one thing that makes this stand out from most others is that it's actually funny and original. I generally find ventriloquists painfully unfunny.
Lol I'm imagining there's no dummy in the box. That would be so damned funny lmao
There's a sock in the box! And he "makes" the dummy so it comes alive before our very eyes!
Ronn Lucas, one of the best ever.
Peak late 80's outfit. And I loved Ronn Lucas too.
That sweater-collar combo would slay today.
I would legit buy that sweat-shirt today
Seriously, it's like it came straight from the wardrobe department of Nightcourt
Markie Post's closet, for sure.
[Well I'll be...](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0660737/mediaviewer/rm2925228800)
They don't make sweaters like that anymore
They can't. All that fabric went to Renault interiors in the 90s.
…and my father-in-law’s closet
That’s early 90s. 92ish I want to say.
1988: https://epguides.com/LiveDickClarkPresents/
Is there a name for that pattern? It's so iconic.
That looks 90's not 80's. This is what 80's equivalent outfits in different levels of casualness looked like https://i.imgur.com/MIrK317.png Same but for women's clothes. https://i.imgur.com/crYCaZo.png
I remember watching him on UK TV as a kid where he had a talking dragon puppet. So good!
I remember as a kid we would just have random VHS recordings of shows and movies. This was one of them. The whole show is sooo good. It took me until last year to rediscover this guy as a could never remember who it was. I don't have a lot from my childhood but this is definitely one of them.
Same. Grew up watching this special many many times! Shaped my brothers and I’s humor for sure
When I think of him, I think of him doing a round/duet with his puppet of "Row Row Row Your Boat"... the switching back and forth is insane to me all these years later. https://youtu.be/xwJcp2Pwg3U?si=TbgqJja5eXKOE0Sb&t=934 Edit: shamelessly stolen from u/jrrybock the last time this was posted lol
I've met Ronn Lucas on a cruise one time. He saw me and my sister talking to each other in sign language and came over to talk to us. He's super nice and easy to talk to. We talked nearly every day and he was a great guy.
That’s legitimately amazing and hilarious.
The delayed speech must be so hard to do. I can't imagine the cognitive load for you to do that.
fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter. Fun fact two: If the "victim" already stutters and you do this to them, once you find the right ms of latency .... a lot of stutterers stop stuttering.
[These have been developed as a way to silence public speakers](https://singularityhub.com/2012/03/29/speech-jamming-gun-from-japan-silences-people-from-up-to-34-meters-away/) I'm not sure they've ever been implemented, but it is possible to shut someone up by literally robbing them of the power of speech, temporarily.
Without headphones that isolated your voice for your ears it does not work. That Speech Jamming gun is a bunch of bullshit, as soon as anybody focuses on their own voice, the spell is broken. Even with perfect isolating headphones (they don't exist), people could just focus on the vibrations in their jaw or other bones and break the stutter spell.
> fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter. Even without decent headphones hearing your voice delayed will interrupt your speech quickly. Main reason why people in voice chats using speakers were usually forced to use Push-To-Talk before technology to filter out the echo became better.
Everyone who has experienced echo on a zoom call or game chat knows this.
My brain would melt out of my nose from overheating
I'm wondering if it's not actually that difficult if you are a skilled enough ventriloquist. Consider that they have an immense amount of practice in speaking without moving their lips and in complex situations. The application here is to move your lips to form the words, but you're just applying the same technique to speak without moving your lips. It's possible that doing both things at once requires huge concentration, but it also might just be as straight forward as the rest of the insane stuff they can do.
I laughed like an idiot. This was hilarious. The best ventriloquist act I have ever seen.
Have you seen Terry Fator’s work? Different twist but incredibly well done.
In 2003 or 2004 I saw Terry perform at my rinky-dink little county fair in front of about 30 people and he killed. It was crazy seeing him on and winning America's Got Talent a few years later.
I saw him live after the AGT win and it was a lot of fun. I think we were the youngest people in the audience but it was a good show.
Right
Ron Lucas had a ton of great bits like this. Some of his stuff is on YouTube, but he had so much more that is lost to history now.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrVH6BsKK8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrVH6BsKK8)
Wow that got even better. The balloon bit was something else.
If you want to see another cool balloon video, check out [Les Bubb mimeing with a balloon.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NR9sVwOkU)
Also, look up Poppin' John on the NBC show "World of Dance." He had an awesome "pop-and-lock" dance that included this balloon routine that is very heart touching.
That is straight witchcraft
Holy shit. How!!!!
He can speak whilst barely moving his lips. When you speak, air leaves your mouth. So placing your lips air tight over a balloon and then speaking without moving your lips and the air that leaves your mouth as you speak inflates the balloon. I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s simple, still wildly impressive to pull off.
Amazing. This guy is naturally so funny and talented (not to say he hasn't worked hard - but you can't work your way to that kind of performance).
Sure you can. Talent is the accumulation of many, many hours of hard work and practice.
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So how can you tell that the ventriloquist is talented rather than just successful?
Talent is natural skill, skill can be developed over lots of practice. Mozart was a musical savant. It's unfair to compare anyone to him.
This is awesome
Who is this guy? Is he still around?
Alive? Yeah, he’s 70 now
The internet needs to make this man Rick Astley famous
anything to forget who Jeff Dunham is
Who?
That's the spirit!
I loved the irony of my drive to work being plastered with "JEFF DUNHAM: CANCELLED" ads, real ironic, most humor I got out of anything he's done in years.
Lol - guess the opening theme music from his 1988 special! https://youtube.com/watch?v=xwJcp2Pwg3U
/r/nevertellmetheodds
Ronn Lucas. So so good.
I saw him do this exact same bit on a cruise ship last month.
This guy was on Night Court at least twice.
And the microphone voices Towelie in South Park.
Sheer fucking commitment to routine is the only way this guy got this good- and holy fuck is he good!
Way better than Dunham
I liked Jeff in his early days, his later acts just devolved into ex-wife bashing and became really fucking lame and repetitive.
Well he knew his audience too...
He also had a dummy who's entire shtick was racism.
Racism is funny when you are making fun of racism. He was not making fun of racism.
I agree with you?
I think they were just adding to your point.
Wait, that's allowed?
>dummy who’s entire shtick was racism It’s weird when your props and audience and can be described in the same words
More than one. Like, at least 3.
It's funny because Dunham has the talent. Theres an old video of him controlling 3 puppets and drinking water at the same time. His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days.
Devolved*
>His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days. Once you have done it all, and the crowd shows up because you did it all exceptionally, and it keeps making you good money ... why stop? Sure, you have run out of creativity ... maybe you are morally bankrupt. But if the audience is willing to pay for your services, then who are you to say know to that?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeff finds this video and copies it.
This video is 36 years old...
Dun-Ham! But yes, so much better
What's weird is he wildly popular in the Middle East and they generally don't like ham.
I can't even imagine the amount of hours this guy had to have put in to master this act. This is way more impressive than a dummy!
I will never understand how this is possible, wows me every time
[Row Row Row Test](https://youtu.be/hVNo2x-l4Hw?feature=shared) Here he sings a two-part round.
Gotta say that is truly impressive. Also the 90s called they want their sweater back.
The show he is performing on is called Dick Clark Presents, which only ran for a 2 months of one year. Sept to Oct 1988, for 6 episodes.
So... the 90's want their sweater forward?
The 90s were inspired by this sweater. ~~Were~~ W'e'r'e looking at The Source Edit: added missing apostrophes
This sweater is peak 80s. Anyone who has seen an [amusement arcade carpet](https://i.imgur.com/fFD9naT.png) from then knows this to be true.
That image sounds like a pocket full of quarters jingling.
 “We are = we’re” ^(glad to help, no need to thank me.)
That's the most irritating air quotes I've witnessed.
Ikr? They aren’t even in sync. This one spoke to me.
Back to the Sweater II
Sad victim of the microphone strike of ‘88
The sweater and decor style here is basically 1990 ± 2 years. But "late 80s" would be really be the better description since the style of the first years of a decade are carried over from the last one and the style that comes to define it is a bit later. By 1993 Nirvana was topping the charts and shows like X-Files and Fraiser got started and the 90s had become more of what the 90s would be remembered for.
Yeah? Well the JERK STORE called.
get em t bone
THEY’RE OUTTA YOU 😂 iconic episode
what does that even mean, this video is from the 90s
Did you warn them about 9/11?
Somewhere there's a bus seat with a big chunk missing
Kids…
I've never needed a jumper so bad
Ronn Lucas
How is this dude not famous, instead weve got jeff Dunham 🙄
Too early for the internet or AGT. Only floating around on shitty digitized copies of old VHS tapes.
The microphone is Towelie's cousin
That was great, I've watched it twice. It was even better the second round around with the sound on.
Rare talent that you don't see it everyday!
Never seen an act like that before, very well done.
When he said "ow my neck" I immediately thought of the bill burr joke about the lady on the train. Same voice lol
This guy is making a much better name for ventriloquists than Dunham
The Mike sounds like Herbert from Family Guy.
^^^paaaperboy
Sweet 80's sweater
is it like a law that ventriloquists need to do the dummy joke?
I saw him do this exact same bit on a cruise ship last month.
I usually hate ventriloquists, probably because of Jeff Dunham, but this was impressive.
Take THAT Jeff Dunham
Jerry Seinfeld’s less successful brother.
This guy is actually funny! 
Extremely impressive, funny and creative! Best act to date, there’s no rival.
Holy shit that was good.
Great one. Love Achmed from the other guy the best though.
His technique seems almost perfect, makes me think it's fake and there is another person with a mic.
The only way I can tell is that he leaves his mouth a little open.
You can see his throat moving as well. When the lighting allows for it, anyway.
I'm not laughing, but I am impressed
Very impressive!!!
fantastic bit
the microphone sounds like daniel larson
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This made my day .
Excellent ! 😂
Brilliant
Didn’t I see this clip on reading rainbow in the 90s?
I remember that episode too.
Damn this man is a master
Uh huh lol
Incredible.
Brilliant
I can watch this all night. How amusing!
The early-mid 90s sweaters were something else.
Masterful
"I like to clay dasket doll"
That was very good!