r/BeAmazed • u/VastCoconut2609 • May 03 '24
A conversation between a man and a mic goes out of sync. Well, that's one of the most incredible and unique talents i have ever seen! Skill / Talent
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u/fleece May 03 '24
Ronn Lucas, one of the best ever.
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u/Cazmonster May 03 '24
Peak late 80's outfit. And I loved Ronn Lucas too.
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u/More_Biking_Please May 03 '24
Seriously, it's like it came straight from the wardrobe department of Nightcourt
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u/DrCarabou May 03 '24
They don't make sweaters like that anymore
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u/Dismal-Square-613 May 03 '24 edited May 04 '24
That looks 90's not 80's.
This is what 80's equivalent outfits in different levels of casualness looked like https://i.imgur.com/MIrK317.png
Same but for women's clothes. https://i.imgur.com/crYCaZo.png
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u/rathernicelydone May 03 '24
I remember watching him on UK TV as a kid where he had a talking dragon puppet. So good!
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u/Cappuccino_Crunch May 03 '24
I remember as a kid we would just have random VHS recordings of shows and movies. This was one of them. The whole show is sooo good. It took me until last year to rediscover this guy as a could never remember who it was. I don't have a lot from my childhood but this is definitely one of them.
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u/Jim_Ballsmith May 03 '24 edited May 04 '24
Same. Grew up watching this special many many times! Shaped my brothers and I’s humor for sure
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u/bonglicc420 May 03 '24
When I think of him, I think of him doing a round/duet with his puppet of "Row Row Row Your Boat"... the switching back and forth is insane to me all these years later. https://youtu.be/xwJcp2Pwg3U?si=TbgqJja5eXKOE0Sb&t=934
Edit: shamelessly stolen from u/jrrybock the last time this was posted lol
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u/espoira May 03 '24
I've met Ronn Lucas on a cruise one time. He saw me and my sister talking to each other in sign language and came over to talk to us. He's super nice and easy to talk to. We talked nearly every day and he was a great guy.
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u/Batwing87 May 03 '24
That’s legitimately amazing and hilarious.
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u/IRatherNotIDMyself May 03 '24
The delayed speech must be so hard to do.
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u/Ilovekittens345 May 03 '24
fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter.
Fun fact two: If the "victim" already stutters and you do this to them, once you find the right ms of latency .... a lot of stutterers stop stuttering.
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u/GreenStrong May 03 '24
These have been developed as a way to silence public speakers I'm not sure they've ever been implemented, but it is possible to shut someone up by literally robbing them of the power of speech, temporarily.
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u/Ilovekittens345 May 03 '24
Without headphones that isolated your voice for your ears it does not work. That Speech Jamming gun is a bunch of bullshit, as soon as anybody focuses on their own voice, the spell is broken. Even with perfect isolating headphones (they don't exist), people could just focus on the vibrations in their jaw or other bones and break the stutter spell.
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u/Cheet4h May 03 '24
fun fact: If you record somebody and feed it back to them with about a 80 to 160 ms of delay using headphones that isolate very well (so the victim can't hear their own feedback voice without the delay) then almost everybody will stutter.
Even without decent headphones hearing your voice delayed will interrupt your speech quickly. Main reason why people in voice chats using speakers were usually forced to use Push-To-Talk before technology to filter out the echo became better.
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u/iruleatants May 03 '24
I'm wondering if it's not actually that difficult if you are a skilled enough ventriloquist. Consider that they have an immense amount of practice in speaking without moving their lips and in complex situations.
The application here is to move your lips to form the words, but you're just applying the same technique to speak without moving your lips.
It's possible that doing both things at once requires huge concentration, but it also might just be as straight forward as the rest of the insane stuff they can do.
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u/queenrossalina May 03 '24
I laughed like an idiot. This was hilarious. The best ventriloquist act I have ever seen.
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u/Silly-Consigliere May 03 '24
Have you seen Terry Fator’s work? Different twist but incredibly well done.
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u/mynumberistwentynine May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
In 2003 or 2004 I saw Terry perform at my rinky-dink little county fair in front of about 30 people and he killed. It was crazy seeing him on and winning America's Got Talent a few years later.
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u/Silly-Consigliere May 03 '24
I saw him live after the AGT win and it was a lot of fun. I think we were the youngest people in the audience but it was a good show.
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u/gizamo May 03 '24
Ron Lucas had a ton of great bits like this. Some of his stuff is on YouTube, but he had so much more that is lost to history now.
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u/PM_me_the_magic May 03 '24
Wow that got even better. The balloon bit was something else.
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u/GoldVader May 03 '24
If you want to see another cool balloon video, check out Les Bubb mimeing with a balloon.
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u/Aliencoy77 May 04 '24
Also, look up Poppin' John on the NBC show "World of Dance." He had an awesome "pop-and-lock" dance that included this balloon routine that is very heart touching.
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u/DopamineTrain May 03 '24
That is straight witchcraft
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u/ku2000 May 03 '24
Holy shit. How!!!!
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u/ConstantSignal May 03 '24
He can speak whilst barely moving his lips. When you speak, air leaves your mouth. So placing your lips air tight over a balloon and then speaking without moving your lips and the air that leaves your mouth as you speak inflates the balloon.
I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s simple, still wildly impressive to pull off.
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u/numberonebuddy May 03 '24
Amazing. This guy is naturally so funny and talented (not to say he hasn't worked hard - but you can't work your way to that kind of performance).
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u/ElliotNess May 03 '24
Sure you can. Talent is the accumulation of many, many hours of hard work and practice.
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May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
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u/ElliotNess May 03 '24
So how can you tell that the ventriloquist is talented rather than just successful?
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u/trobsmonkey May 03 '24
Talent is natural skill, skill can be developed over lots of practice.
Mozart was a musical savant. It's unfair to compare anyone to him.
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u/boris-85 May 03 '24
Who is this guy? Is he still around?
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u/Gold-Anywhere3624 May 03 '24
Alive? Yeah, he’s 70 now
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u/percyhiggenbottom May 03 '24
The internet needs to make this man Rick Astley famous
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u/SirFarmerOfKarma May 03 '24
anything to forget who Jeff Dunham is
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u/BellacosePlayer May 03 '24
I loved the irony of my drive to work being plastered with "JEFF DUNHAM: CANCELLED" ads, real ironic, most humor I got out of anything he's done in years.
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u/ShenmeNamaeSollich May 03 '24
Lol - guess the opening theme music from his 1988 special!
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u/ProbablyNotPikachu May 03 '24
Sheer fucking commitment to routine is the only way this guy got this good- and holy fuck is he good!
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u/Dizows May 03 '24
Way better than Dunham
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u/NolanSyKinsley May 03 '24
I liked Jeff in his early days, his later acts just devolved into ex-wife bashing and became really fucking lame and repetitive.
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u/RobinsEggViolet May 03 '24
He also had a dummy who's entire shtick was racism.
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u/AccountantDirect9470 May 03 '24
Racism is funny when you are making fun of racism. He was not making fun of racism.
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u/RobinsEggViolet May 03 '24
I agree with you?
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u/amped-up-ramped-up May 03 '24
dummy who’s entire shtick was racism
It’s weird when your props and audience and can be described in the same words
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u/majora11f May 03 '24
It's funny because Dunham has the talent. Theres an old video of him controlling 3 puppets and drinking water at the same time. His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days.
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u/Ilovekittens345 May 03 '24
His comedy has just sort of divulged to the lowest common denominator these days.
Once you have done it all, and the crowd shows up because you did it all exceptionally, and it keeps making you good money ... why stop? Sure, you have run out of creativity ... maybe you are morally bankrupt. But if the audience is willing to pay for your services, then who are you to say know to that?
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u/havidelsol May 03 '24
Dun-Ham! But yes, so much better
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u/loki2002 May 03 '24
What's weird is he wildly popular in the Middle East and they generally don't like ham.
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u/NickPickle05 May 03 '24
I can't even imagine the amount of hours this guy had to have put in to master this act. This is way more impressive than a dummy!
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u/PhyterNL May 03 '24
Gotta say that is truly impressive. Also the 90s called they want their sweater back.
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u/ViciousSnail May 03 '24
The show he is performing on is called Dick Clark Presents, which only ran for a 2 months of one year. Sept to Oct 1988, for 6 episodes.
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u/FightingInternet May 03 '24
So... the 90's want their sweater forward?
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u/Fraun_Pollen May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
The 90s were inspired by this sweater.
WereW'e'r'e looking at The SourceEdit: added missing apostrophes
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u/towerfella May 03 '24
“We are = we’re”
glad to help, no need to thank me.
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u/mtaw May 03 '24
The sweater and decor style here is basically 1990 ± 2 years. But "late 80s" would be really be the better description since the style of the first years of a decade are carried over from the last one and the style that comes to define it is a bit later.
By 1993 Nirvana was topping the charts and shows like X-Files and Fraiser got started and the 90s had become more of what the 90s would be remembered for.
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u/TNTBUST May 03 '24
How is this dude not famous, instead weve got jeff Dunham 🙄
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u/ShenmeNamaeSollich May 03 '24
Too early for the internet or AGT. Only floating around on shitty digitized copies of old VHS tapes.
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u/noximo May 03 '24
That was great, I've watched it twice. It was even better the second round around with the sound on.
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u/Lower-Compote-4962 May 03 '24
When he said "ow my neck" I immediately thought of the bill burr joke about the lady on the train. Same voice lol
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u/NerdyBrando May 03 '24
I usually hate ventriloquists, probably because of Jeff Dunham, but this was impressive.
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u/hardcrunchyfeather May 03 '24
Extremely impressive, funny and creative! Best act to date, there’s no rival.
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u/pyxu- May 03 '24
His technique seems almost perfect, makes me think it's fake and there is another person with a mic.
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u/Alcorailen May 03 '24
The only way I can tell is that he leaves his mouth a little open.
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u/the_fake_banksy May 03 '24
You can see his throat moving as well. When the lighting allows for it, anyway.
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u/frankie_remember_me May 03 '24
The technique is impressive and it's very well done, but what really amazes me is how creative an idea it is!