Hand Puppet Improvisers Gifts

'Crunch and Judy' show. (Puppeteer uses hands as he has no puppets.)

'OK, so I fumbled. Now can you cure it or not?'

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

'Wow, Jimmy, that's pretty good!'

'I said you're next, Hibblemeyer. . . Hibblemeyer!'

Silhouette hawk swooping down to catch a silhouette rabbit.

'I'm re-enacting a battle with my conscience.'

'Wow, Jimmy, that's pretty good!'

'I made a Valentine's Day card for you. The school has no art supplies so I wrote the color in.'

Finger puppets in church.

Ventriloquist Audition

"When you tell your Father how you're dropping out of college to be a renaissance faire entertainer, the least you could do is break character."

"Gasp! Pant! Is it good for you, Marjorie?"

Ventriloquism For Beginners.

Boy makes a finger shadow on the tent.

'I'm a loaf of bread.'

'We've run out of one-man plays - why not make it up with the rest of the drama group?'

Half time entertainment at many small clubs was a bit basic.

"You're on kid. Break a string!"

Harpist using her bed frame as a harp.

Hand Rabbit

'This is the way to do it.'

"That's not a mistake, that's jazz."

'Brother John had discovered a loophole in the vow of silence'

"Try some improv, they said. The king will it, they said!"

In the quiet moments that followed, Thomas Edison explores the full impact of his invention.

'But you can't be a real boy, Pinocchio... you were made with artificial sperm.'

'Sometimes if things blow onto the canvas I just leave em there.'

Joe was so poor, his dog was a tumbleweed.

"You're a fool, Carl - a fool and an idiot."

Punch has a smoking break.

'It spoils the decor, but it sure saves money on TV sets.'