Being a Ventriloquist
BEING A VENTRILOQUIST!
Like
I said, buy your jokes!! But if you
want to write your own dialogue, be sure to know what type of audience you will
be performing in front of. Always
make sure your jokes are funny and not rude.
Also make sure you are having fun. If
you aren’t, who will?
There
are several methods of memorizing a script, but I am only going to mention one.
Read your script three times. Try
to remember the topic of your script. Each
day read through your script and make mental notes starting from the main topic
of the script to the small jokes. After
you memorize the script, it is time that you practice it.
Look in the mirror and perform it. Make
sure you have some kind of a puppet with you.
Practice it several times without moving your lips.
How
do you get famous? Put an ad in the
newspaper or send fliers. Anything
like that will work. Example ad:
Ventriloquist for hire. Does
birthday parties or special events. Contact
Chris Hooz at 412-555-5555. Make
sure you include your name, what you do, and your phone number.
Now
that you are a good ventriloquist, do you want to become rich or make people in
hospitals laugh? The choice is
yours. In this part of
Ventriloquism Basics for Beginners, I can’t help you.
It is your choice.
The
Audience
Some
crowds might laugh at your jokes, but want happens if you walk on stage and
everyone is bored and won’t laugh at your jokes? What should you do? Just
continue with your script and have fun. If
you do, the audience will also.
As
you perform, more people will ask you to return and you might not remember which
jokes you told. You don’t want to
tell the same ones again. So you
need to keep a record book handy. After
you perform, write the following information in a journal:
1.
The record
number (Is this your first or 300th performance?)
2.
The phone
number of the contact
3.
The scripts
you used
Always have your record book ready!
Ventriloquism - How it is done