We always love to hear from our friends. This week we heard from our good friend Mark Truman in California. We first met Mark in 2007 at Vent Haven ConVENTion and look forward to seeing him every year in July. Instead of wasting a lot of your time telling you what Mark had to say about his new character, we just asked his permission to republish his note and he kindly granted it.…
From time to time we like to take a few minutes to focus on small things that can be important to your act. Part of having a great act is having great material to work with.
Everyday of your life, you go somewhere and overhear something that is crazy funny.…
We have gotten an idea from one of our readers that we found to be somewhat unique. We have that persons permission to share the idea, but they would rather stay anonymous for purposes of this article. (Somewhat unusual since the purpose of the idea was getting “attention”, but we will honor the request.)…
Many times we get emails from friends who want us to create a special puppet for them. One was for a recently written book, many are for Holiday characters etc.
The problem is that there is always a time delay between when something is ordered and when we can have it done and ready to ship.…
We have discussed in the past the importance of keeping your character animated to make it seem to be alive. This is an important feature in holding your audiences attention and keeping the audience focused on you the performer.
Here is a suggestion that won’t cost more than about 5 cents.…
One of the things that we notice from time to time even among great performers is that the puppets feet seem to turn backwards and wander all over the place. In some cases, this can be part of the act. With Jeff’s Achmed, it is something that comes across as planned.…