Today we conclude out seventeen part interview with Ken Groves. Today Ken talks about the importance of scripts. He shares his script writing expertise along with Terry Fator, Mark Wade, Sarah Jones, Steve Petra and Bill DeMar in the Learn Ventriloquism Script Writing Course.
Where Ken references aiming for four to six laughs per minute, or more, is good advice here. I recall Jeff Dunham in his book mentioning much the same thing.
Like any other standup comic, you want to keep people entertained, i.e., laughing. Interaction between you and your puppet only goes so far — it may be interesting, but is it funny too? You want the audience to perceive you and your character like any other “two people” having a conversation, arguing, debating, etc. You’re not making your puppet move and talk — you AND the puppet are two individuals going back and forth with each other, talking, laughing, arguing, all that.
And the goal is to be funny as often as possible within that interaction.