I’ve been a professional puppeteer for almost twenty years now and I’ve never seen anything quite as disconcerting as ventriloquist, Todd Oliver and his dog Irving.
That’s right. A ventriloquist with a real dog.
Todd Oliver and Irving
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Oh. My.
That is soooo COOL!
Seriously, this is the only reason so far to go to Branson.
Cool. Terrifying. Same thing.
um. it’s a fake mouth, right? and the dog’s real mouth is what…taped shut?
thanks in advance for tonight’s upcoming nightmare.
Yes, it’s a fake mouth. Happy to supply the nightmares!
Perhaps he ought to spend less time engineering that crazy mouth and more time on NOT using his eyebrows when he’s speaking for the dog. The straighter of a face you can keep, the better you look, and no one will notice that your lips are wobbling a little bit.
(Yes, I AM rather in a bad mood.) Still, I do wonder who trained that dog so well and will they train my rabbit to be less of an utter brat…:D
I was wondering how he did the dog’s mouth…wow! Pretty amazing. I thought the guy’s lips were good although you could see his throat moving.
True. But to be fair, ventriloquism is not designed for television.
I feel bad for the dog that had to have his mouth taped shut. There are plenty of movies about animals where they just have a shot of the animal with his mouth open and then just dub whatever lines they want as if they are actually talking (but they obviously are not). I kinda wish the ventriloquist just did that, and improvise based on whatever the dog ends up doing.
I don’t think the dog’s mouth is actually taped shut. According to Mr. Oliver’s website, he developed it in association with a vet and he’s been approved by the USDA.
Okay then. (Hm, I didn’t know USDA is the department for this kind of stuff.)
That was a little weird. I’m afraid to go to sleep with my dog around me now. I did like how the tag line underneath read: “Talking Dog?” Like it just might be real.
That is one mellow dog, though. I wish mine was a little more like that, but he’s 6 months old. I have a way to go.
I wonder how young the dogs were when he started training them.
I don’t know what was more terrifying… the fake mouth or KLG. 😉
KLG, definitely.