No, Mortimer is not dead. But he won’t be letting his fans know whether spring will come early. Instead, the groundhog will be enjoying retirement at his home, watching television, eating coconuts and ...

DECATUR, Mich. — Anyone that’s been around long enough to remember radio and television comedy and ventriloquism in the early days will most likely know the name Edgar Bergen. He was famous with ...

Murry Waas for the National Journal reports on what Bush told Fitz. Basically, the story is that Charlie McCarthy told Edgar Bergen to do whatever was needed doing to make embarrassing information go ...

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 Show ...

Wow. That was one underwhelming headline you had on the front page on July 25: "Mueller: Trump not exonerated." After Robert Mueller's congressional testimony, which brought back memories of ...

An open letter to the community from Andrè Zivaült, assistant professor of Marionette Ventriloquist Puppetry at Harvard University’s Mortimer Snerd School of Puppeteering and Mime Arts. Recently on X, ...

At age 10, Snerd the Garner groundhog manages to prognosticate with fading eyesight and a head that tilts to the side — an elder statesman among weather marmots. But he lumbered to the stage in White ...

“Rubbing alcohol,” Mortimer Snerd once observed, “doesn’t improve its flavor.” Snerd, of course, was a dummy, but the Jim Beam Distilling Company didn’t hold that against him or his pal Charlie ...

Mortimer the groundhog poses for pictures after making his prediction on Groundhog Day that there would be one more cold spell in February and then spring would come early. [email protected] No ...

Snerd the groundhog of Garner, left, makes his prediction at White Deer Park on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. “Snerd has given me the word,” said Mayor Ken Marshburn, right, “my advice to you is not to put ...