Watch ventriloquist Jay Johnson or the dummy wins! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Comedian and ventriloquist Jay Johnson, star of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Jay Johnson: The Two & Only and the 1970s ABC-TV sitcom "Soap."

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with comedian and ventriloquist Jay Johnson, star of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Jay Johnson: The Two & Only and the 1970s ABC-TV sitcom "Soap," by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of carefully trained ventriloquists – and their ghosts – including Edgar Bergen, Wayland Flowers, Shari Lewis, and Paul Winchell, who will ensure that no dummies – or Jeff Dunham – are harmed in the making of this episode… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

If you watch only one Tony Award-winning video that encompasses the history of ventriloquism this year... make it Jay Johnson: “The Two and Only.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking—ventriloquism? Blecch!

But hear me out.
JAY JOHNSON podcast excerpt: "On 'Soap,' the show's creator, Susan Harris, would give us these moments of great pathos and sadness, followed by something completely hysterical. Each scene was its own little moment. They would shoot two or three different Chuck and Bob scenes and put them in two or three different shows. I felt that I was an actor playing the part of a ventriloquist. The fact that I was a ventriloquist was the reason I got the job."
You can LISTEN to this interview with comedian and ventriloquist JAY JOHNSON, star of JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO & ONLY, by clicking the audio player above!

First of all, if you’re a TV fan of a certain age—say, mine or older—you will recognize Jay Johnson from his role as “Chuck Campbell” on the long-running, late 1970s ABC sitcom “Soap.” It also starred Billy Crystal as primetime’s first major gay character and Jay Johnson as its first ventriloquist.
JAY JOHNSON podcast excerpt: "That's the farthest I've e