DOG ASIDE: This video leads off with a great piece on Charlie Hustle….Pete Rose….who to some people’s thinking is the greatest hitter of all time in Major League Baseball…..as this piece focuses on the remarkable career of Pete Rose…..followed by commentary from sports columnists Dick Young of the New York Times regarding how money has…
DOG ASIDE: I have seen several sword swallowing performers before in my life….but I have never seen a HUMAN swallow curved swords…..like the in this video….for this guy is the best I have ever seen…..and that is followed by a stunt woman who becomes a HUMAN ball of fire….for this lady is a daredevil of…
DOG ASIDE: This piece of the HBO Daredevils covers The Amazing Randy in a block of ice for a new world record of 55 minutes…..followed by a trapeze artist who does his routine while hanging from a helicopter….and to top that off….we get to see the only man in the world who has not killed…
DOG ASIDE: Now folks, I know this is a video piece about daredevils….but these HUMANS take the cake…..cuz they are just a few cards short of a full deck….as the Amazing Randy sets a world record of being encased in a block of ice….then a man becomes a human cannonball….a feat that has over 40…
DOG ASIDES: HBO’s Daredevils is hosted by Robert Conrad….and involves some serious daredevils….as Webster defines daredevil as a person who without apparent fear….faces and accepts or carries out ….anything unusually dangerous. In this video piece….motorcyclist / stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker jumps 125′ feet in the air to jump over a helicopter with its blades whirling…..and…
DOG ASIDE: Willie Tyler (born September 8, 1940) is an American ventriloquist, comedian and actor….as most of the time he is credited as Willie Tyler and Lester or Willie Tyler & Lester. He has appeared in many television commercials, sitcoms, and movies. He got his first big break in 1972 on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.…
DOG ASIDE: In the segment of HBO’s Blockheads ventriloquism show…..hostess Marianne Hartley introduces a phenomenal ventriloquist Jay Johnson and his talking plant Fhiladendra….which is hilarious and creative…..with Johnson being followed by Australian ventriloquist Kris Kirby…..who does a bit with his buddy Terry….and then does a weird by funny piece about a man and a woman…
DOG ASIDE: Jay Johnson (born July 11, 1949 in Lubbock, Texas…folks, he’s a West Texas boy….and cuz he’s from West Texas…I know him….cuz I’ll bet a dollar to a hole in a donut that he’s just like every other West Texas boy that I know….ie: Bone Daddy…..anyway, Johnson grew up in Richardson, Texas) is a ventriloquist…
Terri Rogers, born Ivan Southgate (4 May 1937 – 30 May 1999) was a transsexual English ventriloquist and magician Rogers was born in Ipswich….was a somewhat isolated youth….but determined to build a career in variety. Rogers developed a technically highly proficient ventriloquism act with her ventriloquist figure Shorty Harris….first of all appearing as a supporting…