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♥️Community Creator. 🔊Comedian. 😁Ventriloquist. Dog Herder.🐶
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The other week I flew out to Kentucky for the 50th International Ventriloquist ConVENTion. It’s a bonkers and brilliant event that is very close to my heart.
I had a great time catching up with friends I rarely get to see, having a good laugh and celebrating all things ventriloquism.
I was also giving a lecture (oooh get you) and performing on the Saturday night show alongside Jeff Dunham and the legend that is Willie Tyler.
One of my highlights, as always, was visiting the Vent Haven Museum, probably one of my favourite places on earth. Had a nerdy old time admiring the unbelievable collection. Even spotted a poster of Terri Roger’s appearing at The Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh.
It was the perfect pre-Fringe trip to reconnect with the silly skill tiny Max taught himself in his bedroom that is now my actual job.
Also very aware this is a rather formal caption for an Instagram post but I don’t know how to remedy that and felt I had to write about this at length.
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Max
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I lost a best friend yesterday.  I haven’t looked at any social media or spoken with more than a couple of others who are broken hearted as well… But I know the outpouring must be tremendous and magnificent.  Tom Ladshaw wasn’t young but he certainly wasn’t old.  He still had the spark of a beautiful mischievous child inside him that warmed me and made me laugh whenever I talked to him or just sat around and kibitzed about anything and everything.  For my act, Tom was invaluable; He helped me with bits and jokes, made suggestions and came up with ideas.  He was one of my few trusted sounding boards and critics, and he was a vessel of unending vent and show business knowledge and trivia.  But most of all, Tom was my buddy… a dear friend whose loss for me and those who knew him best will always in this life, leave an empty space in our hearts, healed over only with the memories and love for a beautiful soul.  My deepest sympathies and condolences to Leslye and Kate, and to all who loved Tom and knew him as I did.  There will be no equal.
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