Ian Varella is a professional ventriloquist based in Texas. Today we start a seven part interview to learn about his career.
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Video Transcript:
you got a delay there
yeah it’s a crappy old
Aces it’s It’s slow you’re You’re doing
ventriloquism you’re messing with me hi
all those guys on Ghost Hunters and
Ghost Adventures look at this
ventriloquist
who is this
isn’t
it sitting straight and tall a It’s
great
you look good that’s a clean t-shirt
there good just got up the life of a
professional entertainer and And what
time is it there
quarter after 1ish
get her slow
you know about you know about the leap
forward right or was that just east
coast
yeah it’s just an east coast thing no
yeah oh is it later than that
so so tell me a little bit about uh some
of the things you’ve done during your
career
oh gosh what have I done during my
career uh I’ve done cruise ships just
bought a Carnival cruise and the uh the
travel agent has assured me it’s
non-stop
you You won’t have to get off
where do you Where do you get off on
Carnival
Crew ships uh review shows and a couple
review shows
um opening acts which are fun county
fairs which if it ain’t dirt it’s
mud
um you know birthday parties come scout
banquetss that’s But you’ve you’ve left
out something very important you’ve done
a lot of television yes I have it’s been
so long I forgot to even mention it
well tell us a little bit about uh some
of your your TV i mean you had to do
something exciting on there you had to
meet some exciting people yes I did met
some at the Statler Brothers met Crystal
Gale
uh Brooks Dunn Jerry Reed Jerry Lee
Lewis actually Charlie Lewis walked
right past me backstage his favorite
some guy from the audience he had a suit
on and white tennis
shoes uh who else have I met on the Pen
and Teller randy
Travis Jim Belalushi nice guy um who
else when I was checking in at the
Hilton uh there’s this gal right in
front of him and it was Charo
coochie coochie coochie i didn’t ask but
who
else oh and I was backstage with the
Donnie Marie show hanging out with this
really nice kind of heavy set fell and
later we was Patton
Oswald i just figured I I’d never
watched King of Queens i had no idea who
this guy was but he’s he was cool he’s
really nice did a little bit on the show
promoting King of Queens so Patwood
actually has a bigger the head than I do
he probably has a bigger neck size than
I do a 19 inch i’m a fat neck come down
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