Ian Varella is a professional ventriloquist based in Texas. Today is the fourth clip from a seven part interview.
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Video Transcript:
so you were going to be a bowler that’s
what you wanted to do as a kid what made
you pick up the
puppet pick up the puppet pick it up
fish as lot of ventriloquist do copper
field started out as a ventriloquist and
became a magician I started out doing a
magic Act and it was in Tower Heights
Middle School in Centerville Ohio and
they had a carnival and there was
a uh kid that was like a year older than
me I remember his last name because his
father was my elementary school fette
teacher and then became principal Ron
Dietrick and uh he did a magic EG me
just real simple stuff I was I still
remember he opened his act by doing
multiplying bilard balls to Smoke on the
Water which was like oh cool and
blanking
rings change bag you know just basic
stuff but I was just man I want to learn
how to do that so I went and you know
checked out all these books and I you
know started doing shows at
school and did that pretty much through
Middle School uh then in my
sophomore year of high
school well about that time too my mom
got me the the Jimmy Nelson record and
the Edgar Bergen
record and then tried it you know got
frustrated with they put it away for
like five years and then brought it back
out and then added a ventriloquist act
and a magic act and that went like that
until uh right about when I got out of
college I decided okay I’m going to work
cruise ships and I learned very quickly
it’s a lot easier to get booked as a
pquest on ships and it as a magician
because like you said there so many
magicians out
there
so just started writing like crazy
bought a big stack of the
mayor you know
books and she you know read couple books
about comedy
writing and
U so that’s how I got into it that was
one of the thing other thing was my mom
is a professional musician and I grew up
going to nightclubs to see my mom play
which is you know I go to school on
Monday and I’d say oh yeah I went to see
my mom and Betty Lou her
partner Wind Jammer Supper Club in
Sharonville
Ohio and my and to me it was just like
you know I went down to the store to buy
some bread and my friend was like whoow
my folks got to sh Millers they go to
the tropics we get have to have a
babysitter I got a suit and KN order off
a menu I knew what alak cart
me um and plus you would play all the
shows but mom was like the go-to Gown
when you look for someone who can site
read anything so my mom has played if I
were to make a list of all the people my
mom has play it would probably take up
like three pages wow you name an act
saying she’s probably worked with them
she toured with Bob Hope for a couple
Uso tours she got offers to go doing
National tours but iceap holiday I would
come to town she’d be the musician
because you give her any piece of music
tell her what the tempo is where the
repeats are and she could nailed the
first time flawlessly she could I don’t
know how she did it I can’t do it I play
bass and I kind of sight read but the
way she did it
was blew me away
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