Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nancy Berk, Ph.D is a writer and psychologist covering entertainment. Since its second season, America’s Got Talent (AGT GT) has ...

Questions of identity loom large on Meshell Ndegeocello’s Ventriloquism, a collection of 11 cover songs, as the singer’s selections embody her allegiance to diversity, inclusion, and imagination. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meshell Ndegeocello has released Ventriloquism, her first album in four years. Featuring a cover of the TLC classic "Waterfalls," ...

Yes, it’s routines like that that give ventriloquism a bad name. That and those horror films that see something sinister in a lifelike puppet ruled by his master. (Hmm, or is he …?) But the world of ...

No disrespect to the masterly ventriloquist Jay Johnson, whose The Two and Only! is currently on Broadway, but I prefer magicians, with their whiff of the sideshow demimonde of card sharps, hustlers ...

When I think of ventriloquism in film, my thoughts flash to the commercials for 1978’s Magic that creeped me out as a kid. I wasn’t alone; according to the IMDb trivia page, the original trailer for ...

The ancient Romans called it gastromantia — “speaking from the belly.” Medieval Christians called it witchcraft and burned practitioners at the stake. Jay Johnson calls it, well, a calling. Johnson is ...