David Pendleton was only six years old when his grandparents bought him a toy Charlie McCarthy dummy along with a Jimmy Nelson record called Instant Ventriloquism.
“That record album spawned a new era of ventriloquists,” he said. “It taught the principles of comedic timing, scripting and composing a good dialogue between yourself and your character. Most performers of my age learned from that album including Jeff Dunham, Dan Horn and many of my contemporaries.”
