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Ronn Lucas has been called by The New York Times and the London Times "the world’s best ventriloquist." Through a mixture of hard work and clean comedy, this is the funniest one-man show with the most "people" in it without revealing a trace of the voices’ origin.

Clean and hysterically Funny!
Classy, risk-free, "Disney standards" comedy – custom adapted to your event audience.
Affordable!
A full show with two people. Requires only basic production.
Audience participation...MUSIC!
No ASCAP or BMI fees!
Unbeatable Credentials!
COMMAND PERFORMANCES: Queen Elizabeth II, Presidents Bush, Reagan, and Clinton, Princess Margaret, Prince Khalid of Saudi Arabia
TELEVISION: "The Ronn Lucas Show," weekly prime time BBC series (3 years), his own Disney Channel Special, guest spots on "L.A. Law," "Night Court" and "The Tonight Show."
COMMENDATIONS: First place, SHOWTIME'S National "Laff-Off," Atlantic City Entertainer of the Year, two-time EMMY nominee.

Guaranteed SUCCESS!
Standing ovations from even the toughest corporate crowds.....
Variety: "The funniest ventriloquist performing today."
MPI Magazine: "One of the top ten corporate entertainers."
Scorch Dragon: "The easiest guy I've ever worked with."

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He mixes stand-up comedy, improvisation, audience interaction, and astonishing voice manipulation to entertain and delight.

"Crazy people talk to inanimate objects and so do I, but at least mine talk back."

The art of the stand-up comedian demands a quick wit and impeccable timing. The secret to great improvisational comedy involves a quick wit and impeccable timing. The ability to interact with members of the audience to create laughter and excitement requires a quick...well, you know where we're going here.

Ronn Lucas lives by his wits and wins over audiences with his perfectly delivered lines. However, there is one big difference between Ronn and every other successful stand-up comedian – half of his act is spent making other people, and other things, talk!

In a career that has taken him to four continents, Ronn Lucas has been adored by audiences and critically lauded around the globe for his astonishing vocal manipulation. He can make a basketball yodel while he blows up a balloon. He can trade jokes with his own microphone and a toaster can do both rounds of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Additionally, he can turn any member of the audience into a life-size singing dummy who delivers funny one-liners and even does some dance steps.

Unlike many in show business who push themselves to keep constantly in the spotlight, Ronn regularly drops out of performing to study new aspects of performance and to create new ways of entertaining an audience. It is this respect for his audience that makes Ronn Lucas one of the world's most interesting entertainers, and probably the first to ever mix vocal manipulation, stand-up comedy, improvisation and audience interaction into one performance.

Before he formed the unique amalgamation of comedy, improv, vocalism and audience interaction, Ronn was a ventriloquist. He has put in more than 12,775 hours practicing this art. It all began when he was seven and saw an old TV program in which ventriloquist Edgar Bergen appeared to make a baby talk, then came onstage with his acerbic companion, Charlie McCarthy, and scored a big hit with the audience.

Using a record album called "Instant Ventriloquism" by Jimmy Nelson, Ronn spent nearly three years working to master the art of talking without moving his mouth. By the time he was in high school, he found he could call himself out of class by making his voice sound like announcement on the school's P.A. system, "Mr. Lucas, come to the principal's office, now!"

After college, he took his act – the traditional ventriloquist/dummy routine – and played bars, honky-tonks, nightclubs, shopping mall openings, retail store promotions, private parties and anything else that came along. He logged 500 performances one year. The experience was invaluable.

"I was very determined to be heard," Lucas says. "They were either going to laugh at me or laugh with me, but I sure wasn't going to be ignored. I learned early that an act using vocal manipulation could be accepted as more than a gimmick if done well. I also learned to think fast or duck. One night a drunk heckled me, so I had one of my dummies heckle him back. The audience loved it, and when he kept it up, so did I. The crowd was roaring. The guy cursed the dummy and came up on stage ready for a fight. A couple of his buddies restrained him, but I wasn't in any danger because the guy was actually trying to punch out the dummy. It was a compliment, in a way, his believing the prop was talking, not me."

He accepted a long-term engagement to be a featured performer aboard the prestigious Royal Viking cruise line. This provided a measure of stability in an often chaotic business and Ron took the opportunity to radically reform his act. Feeling limited by the standard wooden or plastic dummies used by every other vocalism performer, he began designing creature puppets. In so doing, he altered his entire profession.

Just as his career was gathering momentum, he dropped out of performing to study stand-up comedy with Jim Richardson, the teacher of a radical comedy course in Northern California. As much as possible, Richardson works with performers in a clinical manner, even employing a stopwatch in assessing the delivery of a routine.

Once he returned to the stage, Ronn was a new performer and his more disciplined approach (which ironically appears "looser" to the audience) helped him win several prestigious comedy competitions, including the National LAFF-OFF championships.

Success followed success, with Lucas playing Broadway for two years, as the original ventriloquist in "Sugar Babies," making multiple appearances on "The Tonight Show," guest-starring on "Night Court" and "L.A. Law" (for which he received an Emmy nomination), and starring in a one-hour special on the Disney Channel. Also, he was invited twice to perform for President Reagan and twice for the royal family in Great Britain.

Two successful television appearances in Great Britain lead to hosting his own top-rated television show in London for four years. As a result of these broadcasts and other European appearances, Ronn Lucas became much more of a recognized star overseas than in the U.S.

Once again, defying all show business convention, Lucas decided to pull back from performing in order to devise something new. One new idea he developed involves asking a member of the audience to come onstage with him. "I tell them I need a volunteer to be my dummy. Then I try to find a guy who is frantically waving at me to choose his friend. Then I pick that guy instead." Once the guy has been cajoled into coming up onstage, Ronn gets him to don a specially-designed mask and right before your eyes, the man is transformed into a full-size, talking, singing and dancing dummy.

Second, he has invented a way to use "found" objects and items the audience has with them to perform a funny and endlessly flexible routine. It's a heady mixture of stand-up comedy, audience interaction, comedic improvisation and, of course, his incredible feats of vocal manipulation. He looks forward to every performance because it is impossible to predict what's going to happen. And he doesn't need to travel with so many props. "After all, there's no need to have a bunch of creatures, clowns or critters on stage with me when there's a new audience to select from every night."

Using literally anything you can see, Ronn Lucas is now thrilling audiences as "The Man Who Can Make Anything Talk."

The Ronn Lucas Show -- Thames TV, London, Star and Host
America's Funniest Home Videos -- Special Guest Star
Storytime -- PBS, Guest Story Reader
Who's In Charge Here? -- The Disney Channel, Star
Night Court -- Guest Star
L.A. Law -- Guest Star, Emmy nomination
The Super Dave Show -- Guest Star
The Match Game -- Guest Star
The New Smothers Brothers Show -- CBS, six specials
The Tonight Show -- NBC, Guest Comic, six performances
The Children's Royal Command Variety Show -- BBC, Writer/Guest Star
Circus of the Stars -- CBS, High-wire ventriloquist act
The Royal Command Variety Arts Show -- BBC, Guest Star
The Children's Royal Command Variety Show -- BBC, Writer/Featured Soloist
All-Star Salute to Ford's Theater for the President & Mrs. Reagan --
CBS, Guest Star

The Ronn Lucas Show -- Flamingo Hilton, Laughlin
The Ronn Lucas Show -- Flamingo Hilton, Reno
The Ronn Lucas Show -- The QE2, three years
Barbara Mandrell and Ronn Lucas -- Bally's Vegas, co-headliner
The Virtual Comedian -- The Magic Castle
Kenny Rogers with Ronn Lucas -- Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas

Sugar Babies -- Broadway Show, featured performer
Sugar Babies -- National Touring Company, featured performer

The Man Who Stole the Show -- American Comedy Festival, ABC
Entertainer of the Year -- Gold Cabaret Awards, 1987
Entertainer of the Year -- Atlantic City Magazine, 1986
First Place -- Sixth Annual San Francisco Stand-up Comedy Competition
First Place -- National LAFF-OFF Championships
Ventriloquist of the Year -- American Society of Ventriloquists
The World's Best Ventriloquist -- The New York Times
The World's Best Ventriloquist -- The London Times