When people of a certain age think of ventriloquism, names like Jeff Dunham or even the late Edgar Bergen with dummy Charlie McCarthy come to mind. Those ventriloquists became famous for their comedy ...

Ventriloquist Wilma Swartz doesn’t want anyone to refer to her characters as the “D” word. “Vent pals” would be a more appropriate term since the “Dummies” books own the copyrights to the word, she ...