Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" … - David Copperfield

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David Copperfield

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool. " I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal. "

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