Hand Puppet Improvisers Mugs

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

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

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

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

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

Silhouette hawk swooping down to catch a silhouette rabbit.

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

Finger puppets in church.

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

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

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."

Ventriloquism For Beginners.

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

Boy makes a finger shadow on the tent.

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

'I think it's some kind of power point presentation.'

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

'I'm a loaf of bread.'

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

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

Harpist using her bed frame as a harp.

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

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

'This is the way to do it.'

Hand Rabbit

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.'

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

Joe was so poor, his dog was a tumbleweed.

'This way, we'll never lose track of the remote.'

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

Punch has a smoking break.

'Is there an elvis in the building?!'