Dan Horn Presents Wallace & Ladmo: Madame Polly

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Title: Madame Polly

Description: Fame? Fortune? Only Polly knows—for a PRICE!

Date: 1982

Comments:

When I was still making guest appearances on the show to promote safety belts I did a bit with Polly where she read my palm and predicted I was about to get my big break in television—providing the test tone for the Emergency Broadcasting System. Dooooooooo. The bit was rather lame, but the idea of Polly as a fortuneteller had some possibilities that I later explored in a number of recurring bits. (I also used Polly in this guise in a series of health-related videos for kids produced by Samaritan Health Services. The videos played in schools and hospitals, and number seven in the series, Peer Pressure, received a nomination for a Rocky Mountain Emmy.)

Here is the first bit of the Madame Polly franchise. It established the angle most were to take: that Pollys clairvoyant pretense was just a ruse for depleting my wallet. (Interestingly, this bit foreshadowed the ethics of a certain telemarketing network of psychic friends...) Puppets as con artists—considering the irreverent nature of most of the Wallace & Ladmo material I grew up watching, what else would you expect?

One thing I learned right away after joining the show was, basically, there were no funds for costuming or props. Wallace & Ladmo put the low in low-budget kid's show. If I needed something for a skit, I usually provided it myself—which is why in this clip the crystal ball is a globe from my own bathroom light.

Wallace drew the bumper card of Madame Pollys cottage that bookends the bit and I think it makes a nice transition in and out. I dont know where it is today, but hope its among the things at the Arizona Historical Society Museum for safekeeping. I always liked it.

Dan Horn
2007

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Category:

Comedy

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• Horn
• Wallace
• Ladmo
• Ventriloquist

[gaaracherry]

he was so hot then

[EldricIV]

Hilarious.

[JimHolland8]

Great show You rock Dan.

[MaggotF0rLife]

Is he really talking for the puppet?

[dirkthevent]

Dan .. dude .. Your one of the BEST ever !

[branchtell]

Love this ^^

[gourgonoubles]

@gaaracherry You'd like to be his puppet?

[THEtinybrat24]

I love Dan :)

[aspoonfullofnothing1]

love it