My summer vent goals are to step up my technique and joke writing. What are yours? Please share

Hello everybody!! The other day when we were talking about Señor Wences, I shared part of his history in one of the comments, and I thought it would be cool to share it with all of you through a general post. Us, spanish ventriloquists already know Señor Wences' history but I guess it's unknown in other parts of the world. Señor Wences' parents were cabaret performers. Most people know Señor Wences but nobody knows his brother, Felipe. They both started as clowns. Back then, ventriloquism was popular in the US but in Spain nobody even knew what it was. Felipe was the first one who started doing vent. Before becoming a ventriloquist, he bacema very very interested in automatons. He was a big fan of automatons, and investigating more about puppets, he discovered ventriloquism. He was a young adult, and Wences was still a teenager. So Felipe started doing vent with characters that are just like the ones Wences used. He became a known ventriloquist and started touring with national circuses. Wences got interested in his brother's acts and learned from him and later joined him in his acts. That's when they found out that Felipe was better as the mastermind of the puppets and the acts, and Wences was better at engaging and entertaining the audience. So Felipe stopped performing to create the puppets and the scripts, and Wences was the one that performed everything his brother created. And after a few years, there came some really really hard times in Spain and that's when Wences decided to try and perform with those same acts in the US while Felipe decided to stay in Spain. Wences became a hit in the US and Felipe became the owner of one of the most famous puppet theaters of Madrid. In the 1980's their niece José Luis became a ventriloquist and became a star in the Spanish National Television. But after a few years, he got so rich that he decided to stop doing vent. A few years ago he said on social media that he wasn't interested in ventriloquism and he just did it because of fame and money. But his uncles Felipe and Señor Wences are legends, and spanish ventriloquists appreciate them and love them!!

I have a question and I need. Hope you guys have the answer help me out with this. I am trying maybe to get out a little bit meaning trying to test the watchers to see how much I would do in a retirement home with my ventriloquist act with my characters what are suggestions I should do and retirement home

Happy Sunday, here is some Senor Wences and plate spinning. For those of you who don’t know, Senor Wences was a Spanish born ventriloquist who appeared several times on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was famous for his Johnny and Pedro characters as well as making objects talk. Check him out https://youtu.be/pRBDRoMwWz0?si=Samva-qU0FmxFATw

May Wilson and I were on TV discussing my new book, “250 Years of American Ventriloquism: How Ventriloquism Influenced American Culture.” Watch the clip here https://www.fox5vegas.com/video/2026/06/29/celebrating-american-ventriloquism-new-book-how-ventriloquists-shaped-american-pop-culture/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASwBDZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe0XUh9Dj9Q25Fnag0gL4nTMGmwkdXbnOhnijd-8WzyB9Fq74OceZezqi8br0_aem_jqoNqKz__SDiLzPDWChLRw