Mariette Hartley hosts performances by top ventriloquists.
Alongside his impertinent puppet, ventriloquist Jeff Panacloc celebrates Christmas with humour, surrounded by personalities from music, cinema and TV hosts.
The residents of a small town are haunted by the ghost of Charlie McCarthy, who doesn't like the fact that they are a very careless bunch and are constantly putting themselves in danger.
She's won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard's Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film - all without moving her lips. This year, Nina Conti will create a new show each night by plucking inspiration from the audience. Strap into the mask as Nina gets in your face. With the help of Monkey and a bag of tricks, truly anything can happen in this unmissable improvised adventure of hilarious witchery.
Mario and Netta Show is a quite successful show. Mario is the ventriloquist, Netta is the puppet with whom he shares the scene. Theirs is a complicated relationship, not just on stage.
Live release of Andy Cunningham's 'Bodger and Badger' act from their live slapstick comedy show. Despite the title the main feature is not actually on a stage but some sort of university hall.
A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge
In this NBC Christmas Special from 1984, Mr. T plays a street Santa Claus who meets a young boy, played by Emmanuel Lewis of TV's Webster, who doesn't share the spirit of Christmas. Mr. T sets out to change Billy's mind, taking him around the city to FAO Schwartz, where he gets a magic lesson from David Copperfield, and then to Radio City Music Hall, where he listens to Christmas songs sung by Maureen McGovern, imagines himself as one of the toy soldiers in the Rockettes' Christmas Show, meets Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester, and finally is moved to realize the true meaning of Christmas, before being reunited with his parents.
Story of a depressed, small-town ventriloquist named Henry (Bachar) who finally comes out of his shell when his puppet ‘Moxxy’ (voiced by Les Claypool of Primus fame) begins speaking up for him. All is seemingly well until the cruel and charismatic puppet becomes uncontrollable, resulting in a bizarre battle of wills and even murder.
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
Un hipnotizador y ventrílocuo actúa ante el público con una marioneta, cosechando considerables éxitos, ya que el muñeco habla y se mueve por sí mismo. En una actuación, asiste un periodista que intenta averiguar el truco que esconde el muñeco.
The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an exam administered by the Dean. Instead of cheating like he usually does, Charlie has his own way of dealing with the exam.
DEFINITION: 'Celluloid' - Motion picture film, cinema film. 'Bloodbath' - Savage, indiscriminate killing, a massacre. CELLULOID BLOODBATH: MORE PREVUES FROM HELL - the long-awaited sequel to 1987's horror cult classic, MAD RON'S PREVUES FROM HELL. An awesome collection of 61 over-the-top horror movie prevues, from the golden Grindhouse age, spanning the 1960's through the 1980's! Also features commentary from film makers, actors, critics and fans, that make this a true, incredibly entertaining, one-of-a-kind movie-going experience!
Un boxeador aficionado es sorprendido por un famoso ventrílocuo robando en su camerino y surge la pelea. Un traicionero amigo del ventrílocuo aprovecha la ocasión para asesinarlo y quedarse con su prometida para montar juntos un espectáculo y culpar al boxeador del asesinato. Cuando sus planes parecen que se cumplen, una serie de hechos sobrenaturales atormentarán al susodicho personaje y empezará a vivir una pesadilla.
Deranged projectionist Mad Ron shows a movie theater full of rowdy zombies a diverse assortment of horror and exploitation film trailers from his private collection while ventriloquist Nick Pawlow and his foul-mouthed zombie dummy Happy Goldsplatt provide lowbrow comic relief.
A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.
The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving her, he spots the sign of an imitator, and thinks he could ask him to do the crooning for him while he is trying to date his girl. The imitator accepts, and at first the trick is working, until the imitator gets too cold amid the ice in the back of the van and the girl gets suspicious.
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
Varios sucesos extraños se suceden en una pequeña y tranquila localidad pesquera. Primero, un barco de pesca explota provocando la muerte de sus tripulantes. Los perros del puerto aparecen descuartizados, excepto el del indio Hank. Los pescadores creen que él ha sido el autor de la matanza, y hacen lo propio con el perro del nativo. Pero cuando varios bañistas son asesinados, y algunas chicas violadas, algunos empiezan a comprender que detrás de todo lo que ocurre hay algo más
Julia está cuidando a dos niños mientras un médico y su esposa están fuera. Durante la noche, un extraño llama a la puerta y le pregunta a Julia si puede llamar al autoclub para que lo remolquen. Sin embargo, la línea telefónica está muerta. Todo esto es parte del acto ya que se abrió paso y secuestró a los dos niños.