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More people were listening to a radio ventriloquist. lol


For the Chase and Sandborn Hour, Edgar Bergen was actually just doing multiple voices (being a radio ventriloquist was just a humorous hook). You can hear some episodes here:

https://archive.org/details/BerganMccarthy

Mel Blanc (of Looney Tunes voice acting fame) did much the same thing for the Jack Benny radio shows and also had his own half-hour long radio show, which you can hear here:

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Mel_Blanc_Singles


Yup. I love the thought that absurdity and irony was just as alive and well then as it is now.




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