I'm a ventriloquist from India. I wish to suggest the following to improve the quality of ventriloquists.

1) You may arrange for joke contest which can be used in our shows. This will encourage ventriloquists to create new jokes and all the jokes can be shown in the website.

2) You may also arrange for a contest on novel ideas. Ventriloquism can be used along with hand shadowgraphy or with some magic. There is no limit for creativity of ventriloquists. All the novel ideas can be shown in the website.

3) You may also arrange for a contest for the best routine meant for 5 minutes.

I strongly believe that these ideas if implemented would go a long way in propagating ventriloquism and improving the standard and quality of ventriloquists.

George Shanthakumar
http://ventshanthakumar.blogspot.com/

Great idea. It would turn into a lot of work for someone at the company, so I might suggest that the contest be used to create a joke book and/or skit book geared specifically for Axtell figures. For example, a joke about an octopus wouldn't work, or about a TV character.

The jokes and/or skits would be submitted with the understanding that they will be published and sold with freedom to use by the buyer. Perhaps those submitting selected skits would get a free copy of the book.

This is just a suggestion because of the amount of work involved in putting it together.

On the same lines as the previous post I'd love to see photos of people's sets for their shows.

I like the idea of writing & gathering jokes about specific Axtell Characters (this is an Axtell forum). Have a browse through our product catalog and pick a character. Keep the threads limited to that character. Let people continue to add jokes to that thread. Let's see how many we can do.

Also - Have you seen our video contest yet? Check this out...they are limited to 2 minutes and very much encourage creativity.

http://www.axtell.com/puppetvid.html