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Previous Post Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show?
Katee Sackhoff heading to 'Big Bang Theory': Which geek hero should visit next? | EW.com 2009
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Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show?
Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show? | EW.com 2009
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We see a pig in clown clothes carrying a ventriloquist's dummy, a pig carrying the mask of a stubble-chinned man, a pig disguised as a yellow-eyed squaw, and a pig wearing a piratical skull and walking on chicken's legs—a tableau of Sendak creatures both whimsical and nightmarish.
Sendak's Party Animals Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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This level of sophistication would require an extremely complex program that could not rightly be called just an illusion or ventriloquist's dummy.
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I myself have never really gone there, because, being short of stature, one really runs the risk of looking like a ventriloquist's dummy—so there is that, which one must be conscious of.
Barneys New York's Simon Doonan on the Bow Tie—Its Comeback, Characteristics and Caveats Natalia Rachlin 2011
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Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show? by Clark Collis
Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show? | EW.com 2009
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The doll goes into my closed closet, along with the ventriloquist's dummy that I can't tolerate.
The Movement of Inanimate Objects Lynn Beighley 2011
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Next Post Jeff Dunham: Will you be checking out the ventriloquist's new Comedy Central show?
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Sarah Palin is nothing but a puppet for talented speech writers - like a ventriloquist's dummy.
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But to fault her for her failings as a ventriloquist's dummy says more about the EU itself than it does about the British Baroness.
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