Ventriloquist Terry Fator Wins America's Got Talent!!

I had been out of the country during the odyssey of this amazing performer, but brother Henry alerted me to Terry Fator's "What a Wonderful World" rendition (see bottom video). Have a look at this footage, especially this first one that blew judges David Hasselhoff and Sharon Osbourne away...

Etta James, anyone?

Friends in Low Places indeed!

Unfogettable, considering we're watching a man do Natalie Cole's voice???

Ventriloquism has seldom impressed me. Even the communities behind puppetry and ventriloquism have had a long history of staying separate, seldom intermingling. But I think Terry may have bridged the gap, and even presented these dying arts to millions of new fans.

I never watch these so-called "reality" or talent show-based shows. One can stand so many above average singers and dancers. Am I in the right universe? Somehow, a brilliant ventriloquist won this year! You can picture me on the couch (if you want) smiling like a madman when on tonight's show Finale the audience and judges adorned sock puppets, lip-synching along to Terry's singing puppet.

But unlike Terry or me, their mouths were moving. Mine was stuck wide open.