God bless you Mr Bergen We all miss you dearly. Thank God for pictures and films

Magic! Met him when I was 11yrs old one year before he died! He was awesome! After the show it was my Dad and me and Edgar with his son Kris smiling on the side....my autograph and memory hang on my wall!

There is scarcely, if at all, a ventriloquist alive who does not owe Edgar Bergen a debt. One of my inspirations.

As he says here (re: applause) "That's what actors live on." He obviously LOVED to perform, and did so whenever and wherever there was an audience who appreciated his talent. I went to see him shortly before he passed away. The show was at the Centre Stage Dinner Theater, in Milwaukee. Three college friends and I heard he was performing, so we went to the 'late' (after dinner) show. Despite the fact that there were only about a dozen people who showed up, he did his entire show, for us. He invited us to grab chairs and join him on the stage. Up close and Personal. What a MEMORABLE night it was. After the show ended, we got his autograph, and he let us shake hands with Charlie. He was a truly GREAT performer, who inspired many others, who followed in his footsteps.

@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr

3 ай бұрын

What a great story. I always loved this guy. (Such a great show with Chace & Sanborn program) Can still thankfully enjoy him on Sirius Radio Classics!~

Edgar Bergen was fabulous! I loved the episode of The Muppet Show he was in!

Grambag, Mr Bergen was in his 70's when he did this. Pretty 95% chance that the ventriloquist you see today would not exist if it hadn't been for Edgar Bergen. I bet they got interested in the art watching him or by watching someone else who saw or heard him.

@alancastro2299

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@alancastro2299

2 жыл бұрын

Yas

@aubreystanley1124

Жыл бұрын

Jeff Dunham received a Mortimer Snerd dummy in his younger years.

A national treasure! RIP Mr. Edgar Bergen. You made a lot of laughs!

Oh my goodness, the memories this brings back. Loving this!!!

One of his best performances.

It was great seeing Edgers shows again, those were the days. It is good ventriloquists are making a comeback, some of them are doing exceptionally well, with rare talents like, Darci, Factor, Jeff and a English guy that won the talent contest, can't remember his name though. Thank you for uploading this show from my, wayyy past☮️

@ingridmaier5864

2 жыл бұрын

You mean Terry Fator,,,, he is absolute amazing 💖

Adorable!!!! Beautiful!!!! Cunning!!!! Delightful!!!! Excellent!!!! Fantastic!!!! Great!!!! Hilarious!!!!Tanx Ron...... Dynamike, from New Zealand :-D

Born in the 90s and I find this funny! XD

great performance by the one and only. never seen this. thanks so much.

I love this Clip ! Thanks for posting it ..

Wonderful! I had never seen Effie Clinker. I remember hearing her on the radio show but not very often.

@fromthesidelines

5 жыл бұрын

She was featured more prominently on "DO YOU TRUST YOUR WIFE?" (1956-'57), Edgar's "comedy quiz" program in the style of Groucho's "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" {some examples are posted on KZread}.

My teenage friends and myself spent a summer (1952) doing Long Beach and the Boardwalk and Hollywood's daytime matinees that taped some of their shows. We took in Edgar Bergen's show one afternoon. Had a full audience. His skits were hilarious. We were raised in the San Gabriel Valley (Rosemead). Miss that kind of fun a lot.

@Richie19844

6 жыл бұрын

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The figures were developed characters. He too, played a character. He did all of this with ease: smoothly. The scripts were great. But the difference was that it wasn’t just a guy showing off that he could do ventriloquism, it was a true comedy team!

@786amigo

Жыл бұрын

I wonder who created and manufactured these practically real characters?

Thanks for sharing!!!

Absolutely fantastic dr u/k

To the people bashing him because his lips moved, he was a pioneer in ventriloquism. You wouldn't have people like Jeff Dunham without him.

@MrHeesbeen

8 жыл бұрын

Ventriloquism goes back to long before Edgar Bergen, BossMode96. I believe that the ancient Greeks had something similar and I doubt that they would look upon Mr Bergen as a pioneer in ventriloquism. Being a skilled vent is about technical ability and I would suppose the Jeff Durham could easily have been influenced by many vents but was perhaps been encouraged but not influenced, by Mr Bergen.

@chunderbucket

8 жыл бұрын

+MrHeesbeen I think there might have been a slight gap in the handing-down of ventriloquism skills between Edgar Bergen and the Ancient Fucking Greeks, you pedantic little nerd

@richarddamitz3060

7 жыл бұрын

BossMode96 Dunn hams lips don't move

@bettyboop5405

6 жыл бұрын

yes bergans lips always moved it was really funny...

@kevinchappell3694

6 жыл бұрын

chunderbucket do you kiss your mother with that potty mouth. No reason to be so rude.

Edgar Bergen love him!!

here I m 2024 Chinese luar year laughing with all my Hart m r Edgar k so much thnk you for this happy moments

She was named after Edgar's head writer on his radio show, Zeno Klinker.

I was fortunate to see him perform live in my hometown in the early 70s. My mom loved him on the radio so she made sure we go to see him. I loved all the characters, Charlie, Mortimer, and Effie. He was still terrific, even this late in his career.

“Was he fair? Was he dark?” …. “Yes he was pretty fair in the dark.” Genius🤭🤣

i saw him at magic mountain in california when i was little...he was funny ...loved charlie...but a bad vantriliquist but you just had to luv mr bergan...he rocked

@revdga5911

5 жыл бұрын

Yea but when the characters are that good no one cares lol...

I never was aware of Effie,..very cute and clever. I wish he would have brought her out more.

@pianopappy

7 жыл бұрын

He used Effie frequently on a TV quiz program called "Do You Trust Your Wife?", and gave her plenty of risqué lines.

this guy is best of it.

Still love him

so fun to watch

FANTASTIC...

Ron, thank you for posting this Edgar Bergen show. I recently bought replicas of Charlie McCarthy & Mortimer Snerd made by the Goldberger Company.These doll were modified by the artist Kevin Detweiler. This week I made about 4 videos. Please let me know what you think. I have great respect for Edgar and his amazing ventriloquist skills.

"That's a shame." LOL.

that's amazing

Mortimer Snerd is the most funniest guy in the world I like him so much 800%

@madkittyjoey70

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah Mortimer's funny. So is Charlie. :)

W.C. Fields: "Is it true that your father was a gateleg table?" Charlie: "Is it true, Mr. Fields, that when you stood on the corner of Hollywood and Vine.....forty-three cars waited for your nose to change to green?"

The show was on a HBO show it had all puppets and I was about 14 years old now 49.

I saw Charlie on display at the Smithsonian Institute!

at 8:49 is Bubba J`s grand dad #JeffDunham.

It is sad Candis locked him away in the Smithsonian museum after Edgar died. After all charlie did for her career ! He treated her like a sister,

Fun and Fancy Free brought me here. :D

I saw an interview with Edgar's daughter, actress Candice Bergen who said that when she was a little girl, she thought those dummies were real people.

Was Mortimer the inspiration behind Bubba J?

Grambag that is understandable , but the reason that Bergen was so popular despite his lips moving, was because he was so funny. This was a lot better than many other ventrloquists in Bergen's time in Vaudeville and other areas who could talk while drinking a glass of water and other stunts, but that was it, they were not that funny. With Bergen, you listened to the words of his dummies, and ignored Bergen's imperfections in moving his lips because he was so funny

@larrybrennan1463

5 жыл бұрын

Not only funny, but his dummies had personalities.

@rutabagasteu

5 жыл бұрын

He was on the radio for years. Then he was in movies.

@fromthesidelines

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, Charlie pointed out that Edgar's lips were moving in his usual sarcastic attitude.

@fromthesidelines

5 жыл бұрын

He and Charlie appeared in 13 one reel shorts for Warner Bros. between 1931 and '37, BEFORE they began their appearances on "THE CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR" in May 1937.

Yes, we grew up watching him along with others on the old B & W tv..I guess he forgot he was on tv and not the radio, but we loved him anyway! lol......He had a great bunch of voices, along with the tv shows. His daughter, Candace I thought once said she felt like she was one of the puppets at times. haha. Never talked to her. I can't remember what she said, other than she didn't like the puppets.

I love Edgar Bergen

grandissimo ventriloquo edgar bergen .

Clearly the inspiration for many 'vents' at home and abroad. Father of Candice, apparently he left Charlie McCarthy $10,000 in his will.

That is so funny!

Radio then movies then he was on television. Nobody worried about his lips moving. They liked his jokes. You might look up Charlie and his encounter with Mae West.

That is so funny 🌿

I saw Edgar do 3 voices at one time on a special once, is anyone able to point me towards a video of that?

That's Bubba J's twin at 8:31 😂 That must be where Jeff Dunham got Bubba J from. Lol.

@crazyemeralds4033

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff dunham started ventriloquism with a Mortimer Snerd Dummy

As a kid I always found ventriloquists somewhat scary. And especially the puppets.

Edgar was the legendary Ventriloquist he ever Lived For 10 Whole years for Now the Present and the Future of Puppets and dummies will live on....Just like Paul zerdin,Ron Lucas,Jack Williams,EMMY & Chester,Jeremy and his puppets,David Strassman,Nina,And Landon Harvey.😇🙏🎭

No one ever topped Bergen.

'What's My Line' brought me here.

My right ear is lonely

Bergen is great in W. C. Fields film, YOU CANT CHEAT AN HONEST MAN

Did youtube kill the audio on this or is it just my machine that has no sound?

@mikerogers6136

8 жыл бұрын

I can hear it

@emmarose4234

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

the first and best

His lips never move, except when his doll is talking.

Carol Burnett I wish you were mom you just seem so living

Production ideas goodnight 😀

Tom Snyder once asked Bergen how it was that he got away with moving his lips all these years. He said he wanted to be honest about where the sound was coming from. Good as answer as any, I guess. Look, if you can do ventriloquism on the radio why not tap dancing?

@pianopappy

7 жыл бұрын

Bergen once said in an interview he got "sloppy" after he moved from vaudeville to radio. By the way, Stan Freberg once presented an acrobatic aerialist group (the fictional "Zazzaloff Family) on his 1957 radio show.

This is the original of Bubba J by Edgar Bergen 8:30

I wonder if that's where Jeff got the idea for bubba J 😂

I thought that was Charlie McCarty 's mother 😄.

A puppet is just an outlet for funny comedians.

I would like to have a mortimor snerd he’s a funny guy

Dee Ricketts, that's a sgn of good humor. - - - ANYBODY can get up there and spout off a list of expletives, but it takes REAL talent to make people laugh without such trash.

Candice Bergen’s father .

He left his inheritance to his dumb puppet and nothing to daughter Candice… great guy😂

🤣🏆❤️

Gc

Edgar bergen noved his lips

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I fail to see why he was so highly rated in America. Extreme closeups (which never seemed to happen) and which were concentrated solely on the face of the Mr Bergen, would show lip movements hence semi long shots. We in Britain, had two vents who could have full face closeups and not show the slightest trace of lip movement. I refer of course, to Ray Allen and Arthur Worsley. To refer to Mr Bergen as `The Grand Master` after a lifetime of experience in which he still had visible lip movements, is at best, patronising to his memory and at worst, insulting to Messrs Allen and Worsley. I would respectfully suggest, that the author of the short article looks on You Tube for examples of the skill of the two vents that I have mentioned.

@badtux

8 жыл бұрын

+MrHeesbeen Bergen was more of a comedian than a ventriloquist. Nobody ever claimed he was technically superb at ventriloquism. He just had a very funny show where he played all the characters. The modern school of American ventriloquism is far better technically, but it is the lessons they learned about showmanship from Bergen that led to a resurgence in the field in the 1970's and 1980's in the United States.

@SilverRook

7 жыл бұрын

I believe ventriloquism is more about making the puppet come to life and be believable more than the ability to talk without moving ones lips. Not the wikipedia definition before you go look it up and bash me, just how i see it. Lose yourself in the magic, immerse yourself in the skit. otherwise, why are you watching ?

@Lampshade51

7 жыл бұрын

Nobody cared if his lips moved. He created one of the most memorable characters in show business history, Charlie McCarthy.

Ventriloquism is a non lip movement, he moves his lips, end of story

@CMOT101

4 жыл бұрын

And if it wasn't for this guy you wouldn't have ventriloquists today. So sit down and stfu.

You can see his lips move

Not sure why he was considered so great...his lips move a lot!

@fromthesidelines

5 жыл бұрын

He knew it. Sometimes, Charlie would zing him with lines like, "If I stopped moving MY lips, would YOU talk, Bergen?".

Really scary he killed a kid and used him as a doll smh

No his not the best ventriloquist I saw his mouth moving, Dan horn is the best.

I guess I'm spoiled by much better ventriloquist because his lips move WAY too much and it takes away any illusion in the act.

@fromthesidelines

10 жыл бұрын

His lips were moving when he first appeared in Warner Bros. shorts in the early '30s, at the tail end of his vaudeville career. Even Charlie pointed that out, now and then, as an "insult".....

But he moves his lips!!

Grambag, Mr Bergen was in his 70's when he did this. Pretty 95% chance that the ventriloquist you see today would not exist if it hadn't been for Edgar Bergen. I bet they got interested in the art watching him or by watching someone else who saw or heard him.

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