I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet ...

Dear Harry: I have a 1977 Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist doll still in the box ... Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd (introduced in 1939), gained fame on radio in the mid-1930s, quite a feat ...