The World’s Greatest Ventriloquist: Arlol of the Week

Cidu Bill on Mar 3rd 2009

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13 Responses to “The World’s Greatest Ventriloquist: Arlol of the Week”

  1. Silviya Mar 3rd 2009 at 08:42 am 1

    It starts to get funny if you just complete what he was about to say :

    “.. I’d rather have pliers in my mouth, than a hand in my…”

    It was a random not so funny comic for me, that goes on the old ventriloquists’ joke of trying to convince you their doll is actually alive and speaking :]

  2. Soup Dragon Mar 3rd 2009 at 09:32 am 2

    Silviya: When you complete a sentence, why don’t you complete it? A hand in my what? mouth? pants? anus? nostril?

    As for the cartoon, ventriloquist do actually form the words with their mouth, they just conceal it. It must be so much harder to do that when you have a tooth extracted, hence “The World’s Greatest …”

  3. Mark Jones Mar 3rd 2009 at 10:42 am 3

    Come on, Soup Dragon…if the dummy was a person, where would the ventriloquist’s hand be?

  4. Mark in Boston Mar 3rd 2009 at 12:26 pm 4

    I completed it as “a … [in my mouth].”

    I was thinking what some comedian (I forget who) said on TV, getting in trouble afterwards:

    “The dentist took a needle and said ‘You’re going to feel a little prick in your mouth,’ and I said ‘I hope I’m knocked out before that happens.’”

  5. Silviya Mar 3rd 2009 at 03:28 pm 5

    Soup Dragon - because some jokes are funnier when they are left blank. Especially when they are the kind of jokes in this comic strip.

    Actually, I think that would be what the doll would ACTUALLY say - by the time it would reach the word “ass” or “butt” or whetever comes first to your mouth, the man with the hand would either look at the doll and there would be a long stare, or he would cry out, and the doll would say something along the lines of “oh, you scream now, what if you were on MY place”… And so on.

    Just a random “hand-up-my-ass” joke, now, can we please, as a culture move on?

    http://xkcd.com/194/

  6. Patrick Mar 3rd 2009 at 03:43 pm 6

    Not to get all ventriloquist-techy on you but on all the dummies I ever used, the hand went into the lower back - above the butt - not up an opening in the bottom as in a regular, Punch & Judy style puppet. So, they never really had a “hand up the . . . ”

    That esoteric knowledge takes nothing away from the understood intent of this gag - which, I think is a good one.

  7. Brent Mar 3rd 2009 at 05:12 pm 7

    Patrick: That knowledge pretty much destroyed the joke for me… I couldn’t see where it was going at all. I was thinking “… miers in my plouth??!?”, because that lead-in just screams spoonerism.

  8. Terry Mar 3rd 2009 at 08:24 pm 8

    Confirmation that Silviya’s original comment is 100% correct can be found at http://www.spreadthefword.com/2009/03/butt-what.html .

  9. S.P. Charles Mar 3rd 2009 at 11:36 pm 9

    Of course “correct” really isn’t an issue, since this wasn’t a CIDU

  10. Silviya Mar 4th 2009 at 04:09 am 10

    Yep, I saw it’s a “LOL” entry and not a “CIDU”, but for me it wasn’t even a “LOL”. *shrugs*

    /*Wordpress keeps eating my comments. */

  11. Matthew Mar 4th 2009 at 10:11 am 11

    Wordpress would rather have your words in its mouth, Silviya, than your hand up its… asterisks.

  12. Matthew Mar 4th 2009 at 10:25 am 12

    Silviya, XKCD really blew (so to speak) an opportunity with the cartoon you cited above (http://xkcd.com/194/). If the figure had been standing at the appropriate spot on a mock ruler (14 cm., according to another XKCD cartoon: http://www.xkcd.com/526/), then we really could, as a culture, move on.

  13. Jesse Mar 4th 2009 at 05:43 pm 13

    I thought this reeked of editing. Tony’s response was hysterical though.

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