@mannycoon wow, how adorable: a little naive, inexperienced teen is learning to curse... arent we all impressed?
Think someone has learned some ill fated, bad habits from their trailer trash parents, overhearing them fighting, arguing, being publicly intoxicated, neighbors disturbed, regular occasion that police are called to settle domestic disputes, such shame in the community not only of their poverty & filthy hygiene but their ill behaved manor and lack of class.
Albert kept coming onto variety shows back in the day doing variations on this type of parody. I remember a mime act on the Carson show that Johnny set up by introducing a great new French mime in the tradition of Marcel Marceau, one Albert -sounds like Colbert - Brooks. He comes out in whiteface and starts telling Henny Youngman-type jokes. At least that's the way I recall it having seen it only once at least 35 years ago. He didn't shut up.
Back in 1972, it wasn't all that uncommon to see ventriloquist acts on variety shows like Ed Sullivan, et al.
There were a *lot* of standard 'bits' - drinking water and smoking a cigarette among them - that *every* ventriloquist did, so it was ripe for parody!
Enter Albert Brooks - one of the *greatest* comics of the 1970's, in large part *because* of routines like this - and his take on ventriloquists wasn't just spot-on, it was *hilarious*!
I've Albert Brooks for so long. This is something "new" I've never seen, as I was a tot when he was first starting out. He's a genius, and completely under-utilized.
I know he just came out with a book, but I wish he'd write and star in another film. He's the best.
Am I the only person posting here that remembers that what Brooks was doing was a perfectly wonderful parody of the great Spanish ventriloquist, Señor Wences? He truly was amazing as was Brooks’s parody.
I found this to be hilarious and I like Albert Brooks a lot. But are those two audience members that are in the light even laughing? I don't know how they couldn't be, but it looks like they aren't. Can't tell about the rest of the audience because they are in the dark. (Also, at 3:13, a kid has his feet on stage. Look on the left) I didn't think Flip Wilson used canned laughter and I don't see why they would have to for this skit. But stranger things have happened...
@pinfold1000 Jeff Dunham is the best ventriloquist ever saw him live on the identity crises tour new jokes and a new dummy gess what he can say a perfect p sound with out moving his lips as a ventriloquist thats very hard considering that the p sound is one of the hardest letters to sound without moving your lips this guy on this video is making fun of ventriloquism by moving his lips to what the dummy says rather then holding his mouth still while throwing his voice
@pinfold1000 and one more thing this was filmed back when ventriloquism was not as popular as it is now Jeff Dunham brought it back and he is the only one that seems to be were he's at as far as a career in ventriloquism go's
@GothicKingCobra52 Actually ventriloquism was MUCH bigger when this was filmed than it is now. That's what makes is so funny to the live audience. They are expecting what they usually see when a ventriloquist comes out and they get a guy who is horrible and doesn't know it. Of course Albert Brooks knows what he is doing by juxtaposing his act against what is expected: thus the humor.
@junemem I understand the humor but to bash Jeff Dunham is why I responded to pinfold1000's comment and ventriloquism was a dieing act and the only reason it was so popular was because there were a lot of scary movies with murdering ventriloquist dummies and the adults who grew up watching ventriloquist shows but Jeff Dunham brought it back from that and made it more popular for a wider audience then it was back in 1972 when Jeff Dunham was still in school
I found this by googling "...Brooks is terrible" after suffering through his flick Mother. I see Brooks in a bunch of movies and he is always awful, I'm trying to understand his appeal. I think he just puts up the money for the projects he's in and thats how he gets screen time.
@K1NGDANG3R Personal taste bro. I feel the same way about Flight of the Conchords, EVERYONE seems to suck their dick, and they're TERRIBLE! This bit is funny as hell, on the other hand.
This is the bit Albert did his first time on the Ed Sullivan show, and it's even funnier in context when you consider how many real ventriloquist acts there were and how much nerve it took to go out there and do it like this. Thanks so much for posting this.
one of the most annoying, undesirable dorks with no screen presence.
skershaw2000 1 week ago
@skershaw2000 Shut up and go Fuck Youself prick!
mannycoon 6 days ago
@mannycoon wow, how adorable: a little naive, inexperienced teen is learning to curse... arent we all impressed?
Think someone has learned some ill fated, bad habits from their trailer trash parents, overhearing them fighting, arguing, being publicly intoxicated, neighbors disturbed, regular occasion that police are called to settle domestic disputes, such shame in the community not only of their poverty & filthy hygiene but their ill behaved manor and lack of class.
sucks to be u
skershaw2000 6 days ago
AND HE SAID CLOWN FISHES WERENT CLOWNS!
(hes nemo's dad in Finding Nemo)
ipwnagraphy 2 weeks ago
LMAO
izzie5502 1 month ago
He moves his mouth while dummy talks. -_-
koalabearsarecute 1 month ago
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bartcolen 1 month ago
Genus!!!
FreddyA64 2 months ago
I saw this when he originally did it and it still cracks me up.
chattabob 2 months ago
this is stupid
DmantheVENT 2 months ago
@DmantheVENT Fool.
Level9Lime 1 month ago
@DmantheVENT Shut up and go fuck your mother dickhead!
mannycoon 6 days ago
Albert kept coming onto variety shows back in the day doing variations on this type of parody. I remember a mime act on the Carson show that Johnny set up by introducing a great new French mime in the tradition of Marcel Marceau, one Albert -sounds like Colbert - Brooks. He comes out in whiteface and starts telling Henny Youngman-type jokes. At least that's the way I recall it having seen it only once at least 35 years ago. He didn't shut up.
I'm still laughing. ( :-)
Scunyun 2 months ago
Well that sucked
Adam10018 3 months ago
@Adam10018 Fool.
Level9Lime 1 month ago
@Adam10018 Shut up and Go fuck yourself!
mannycoon 6 days ago
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wow. ok. so this passed for entertainment back before Madonna.
nwlovell 4 months ago
I had never seen this before. Just hilarious.
davelanson 4 months ago 3
im surprised the audience responded to this so well. deconstruction humor didnt really seem to come around for another 15 years or so
unpuercofeo 4 months ago
A classic bit...
beatlejim64 6 months ago
Back in 1972, it wasn't all that uncommon to see ventriloquist acts on variety shows like Ed Sullivan, et al.
There were a *lot* of standard 'bits' - drinking water and smoking a cigarette among them - that *every* ventriloquist did, so it was ripe for parody!
Enter Albert Brooks - one of the *greatest* comics of the 1970's, in large part *because* of routines like this - and his take on ventriloquists wasn't just spot-on, it was *hilarious*!
ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!!
BobBlec 6 months ago
This bit should've wiped out ventriloquists forever.
CoolerKing37 7 months ago
jeff duhnam's got nothing on albert brooks
joeyfluffs 7 months ago 7
Just saw this sketch on a Flip Wilson dvd. HAD to look for it on YouTube. I was in tears watching this :) =D
Birdboy029 7 months ago
This is just excellent. He's so brilliant.
electrojones 8 months ago
This bit is even Funnier when you realize that the ACTUAL NAME of this sketch was "The World's Worst Ventriloquist".
That's the gag.
GodsFavoriteBassPlyr 8 months ago
Loved all the great stuff Albert Brooks used to do on Johnny Carson.
WytZox1 8 months ago
I'm pretty sure that was a dummy.
8woldy8 8 months ago
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its not funny period! its stupid a no talent ventriloquist , trys to be funny,. his lips move way too much
TheSwissman29 8 months ago
@TheSwissman29 Y'know, it's almost like he's being awful on purpose, and that's why it's funny. But no, there MUST be another excuse...
3zy 8 months ago
Why was Flip Wilson introducing AB on the Ed Sullivan show?
karmadhyana 9 months ago
Holy shit, his smile after the punch line "I don't have to be anywhere either," I can't remember the last time I have laughed so hard.
greg5566 9 months ago
Brooks is the best, has been for decades.
stainskoolkidz 9 months ago
A classic parody of the real thing.
russocomedy 10 months ago
I've Albert Brooks for so long. This is something "new" I've never seen, as I was a tot when he was first starting out. He's a genius, and completely under-utilized.
I know he just came out with a book, but I wish he'd write and star in another film. He's the best.
pmitsos 10 months ago
hilarious!
LizzyT123 10 months ago
Am I the only person posting here that remembers that what Brooks was doing was a perfectly wonderful parody of the great Spanish ventriloquist, Señor Wences? He truly was amazing as was Brooks’s parody.
abiebaby3d 10 months ago
I found this to be hilarious and I like Albert Brooks a lot. But are those two audience members that are in the light even laughing? I don't know how they couldn't be, but it looks like they aren't. Can't tell about the rest of the audience because they are in the dark. (Also, at 3:13, a kid has his feet on stage. Look on the left) I didn't think Flip Wilson used canned laughter and I don't see why they would have to for this skit. But stranger things have happened...
reving19 10 months ago
He's good ... much better than Jeff Durham... but he's going to kill his dummy one of these days.
BRILLIANT
zbestwun2001 11 months ago
@xSiCkXSnIpEZ That's his point: he's not a ventriloquist at all. His bit is about being a horrible ventriloquist. He's genius.
junemem 11 months ago
I might be understanding how great this guy was now.
xtremegt2 11 months ago 3
Ventriloquism deconstructed.
carlsetzer 1 year ago 2
Everything Albert Brooks does is genious. I could watch "Defending Your Life" non-stop and still have a completely satisfying life.
benjyedwards 1 year ago 3
Is that Albert Brooks as in "Finding Nemo's" Marlin, and assorted Simpsons characters?
ANonExistentUser 1 year ago
two things you cant do anymore smoke cigs indoor and publicly expose hack comedy jeff Dunham you have been served
pinfold1000 1 year ago
@pinfold1000 Jeff Dunham is the best ventriloquist ever saw him live on the identity crises tour new jokes and a new dummy gess what he can say a perfect p sound with out moving his lips as a ventriloquist thats very hard considering that the p sound is one of the hardest letters to sound without moving your lips this guy on this video is making fun of ventriloquism by moving his lips to what the dummy says rather then holding his mouth still while throwing his voice
GothicKingCobra52 1 year ago
@pinfold1000 and one more thing this was filmed back when ventriloquism was not as popular as it is now Jeff Dunham brought it back and he is the only one that seems to be were he's at as far as a career in ventriloquism go's
GothicKingCobra52 1 year ago
@GothicKingCobra52 Actually ventriloquism was MUCH bigger when this was filmed than it is now. That's what makes is so funny to the live audience. They are expecting what they usually see when a ventriloquist comes out and they get a guy who is horrible and doesn't know it. Of course Albert Brooks knows what he is doing by juxtaposing his act against what is expected: thus the humor.
junemem 11 months ago
@junemem I understand the humor but to bash Jeff Dunham is why I responded to pinfold1000's comment and ventriloquism was a dieing act and the only reason it was so popular was because there were a lot of scary movies with murdering ventriloquist dummies and the adults who grew up watching ventriloquist shows but Jeff Dunham brought it back from that and made it more popular for a wider audience then it was back in 1972 when Jeff Dunham was still in school
GothicKingCobra52 11 months ago
@junemem Thorough explanation, just remember that explaining humor doesn't make it any funnier.
joshscobey 10 months ago
@joshscobey Thanks! I would never have known that without your valuable input.
junemem 10 months ago
@junemem I don't mean to come off as condescending, but I honestly don't believe Albert Brooks would appreciate you explaining his jokes.
joshscobey 10 months ago
@junemem Thorough explanation, just remember that explaining humor doesn't make it any funnier to the person your explaining it to.
joshscobey 10 months ago
holy shit this is funny!
mwoolner 1 year ago
he ruined that dummy
BFLProductions100 1 year ago
I guess its only funny when playing it for real,
i am not and drug addict spectator not even actor.
So i am fine playing alone,i can share all the fun myself and the silent laughs too.
Oh wait a minute,typing this text here makes me to think,
i also doest looks so funny cause this is what basically i do before everything.
WDHellSOnLineKILLER 1 year ago
Ventriloquist?
No i am only a guy at the computer,but wait! I got brains...
Lucky and unfortunately its only mines and its not for making money anyways,
and everyones makes money of me.......
WDHellSOnLineKILLER 1 year ago
My God, Brooks is one funny guy. You should see him in "In Laws" with Michael Douglas.
Absolutely brilliant!
GodsFavoriteBassPlyr 1 year ago
Albert is one of the funnest. i love his movie Mother.
einnocjoe1 1 year ago
This is actually prop comedy, and it's great!
diablecita 1 year ago
I found this by googling "...Brooks is terrible" after suffering through his flick Mother. I see Brooks in a bunch of movies and he is always awful, I'm trying to understand his appeal. I think he just puts up the money for the projects he's in and thats how he gets screen time.
K1NGDANG3R 1 year ago
@K1NGDANG3R Personal taste bro. I feel the same way about Flight of the Conchords, EVERYONE seems to suck their dick, and they're TERRIBLE! This bit is funny as hell, on the other hand.
mikper7 1 year ago
OMG this is just too damn good HAHAHA
the worlds best worst ventriloguist act XD
RedShoes201 1 year ago
EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!
silentbob345 1 year ago
That is so funny.
HUM4N4FTER4LL 1 year ago
Love Albert Brooks, I have never seen this but recognize some of the bit from "Looking for Comedy in Muslim World" Thanks for posting.
trexguy 1 year ago
Edgar Bergen had the greatest act of all ----- RADIO ventriloquism!
mooncarry 1 year ago
Never get tired of watching this. Albert Brooks is a comic genius. Thank you for posting this classic clip.
userdan54 1 year ago
I have always remembered Albert Brooks' "Dave & Danny". It's as funny as I remember. He was a great comic and I'm so glad this clip has been posted!
cesarsueg 1 year ago
It's funny because Albert Brooks is lip syncing everything the dummy says.
7tacoguys 1 year ago 23
Modern Romance must be his masterpiece. I must look him up on
wikipedia and see what the hell this hilarious dude is doing with himself lately
Asskicker32294 1 year ago
Hilarious! Albert Brooks is so damn funny :)
thedesignhighschool 1 year ago
Worst thing I've ever seen.
field87ven 1 year ago
he's bad
cybill234 1 year ago
This is the bit Albert did his first time on the Ed Sullivan show, and it's even funnier in context when you consider how many real ventriloquist acts there were and how much nerve it took to go out there and do it like this. Thanks so much for posting this.
MrKipW 1 year ago 15
@MrKipW--BALLS OF STEEL. Your comment actually made me realize just how amazing it is that Brooks did this--and did it successfully.
mstech1 1 year ago
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amcaesar 1 year ago
Albert Brooks is one of the funniest people on the planet. Hadn't seen this in years and forgot how good it was. Thanks for posting!
lumpytwangage 2 years ago