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Kansas Newspaper Profiles Joe's Show And Career The Garden City Telegram Published 8/03/2007 BY JULIAN ORTIZ As a full-time entertainer, Joe Gandelman travels across the country year round, but not alone. He is accompanied by his colleagues John, Edwin the Elephant, Smiley the Bulldog and his Uncle Sydney, to name a few. Gandelman is a ventriloquist and he has been entertaining crowds at the Finney County Fair three times a day this year. Gandelman was a journalist for about 20 years working in India, Spain, Cypress and Bangladesh and also in the United States as a staff writer on the Wichita Eagle-Beacon and in San Diego. To relieve the stress from working as a staffwriter, he decided to find a hobby that kept him away from his career, he said. "I wanted something that totally divorced me from journalism," he said. "So when I was living in Wichita, I bought a pull-string puppet and a book on ventriloquism." After working in San Diego and nearly losing his job to a strike, he decided to take the plunge to be a professional ventriloquist, which has him performing coast to coast at fairs, festivals, schools, corporate events and on television, he said. "This was a hobby for me," he said. "After the strike, I was thinking about something else to do besides journalism." Perfecting his technique by carefully studying and constantly practicing material, Gandelman became a professional ventriloquist. Currently, Gandelman has been traveling across the country attending fairs. He flew to Garden City to perform at the Stevens County Fair and the Finney County Fair, he said. His act is a 40-minute show with a large cast of about 11 puppets. He features comedy, music and lots of audience interaction. He includes children as part of a short ventriloquist lesson. "The children are so funny, they're half the show," Gandelman said. "Their reaction to things, the hardest part of the show is watching them while I perform and not laugh." Gandelman will be performing at the Finney County Fair until Saturday. His show is located at the 4-H picnic shelter.
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