Cheers and Cheerio, Will and Kate

Let's let this moment speak for itself, stand on its own, and be all that it can be ...

And hang on to your socks and prepare too be wow'ed.  The networks are going to be really embarrassed with the yawn they put on compared to this.*

(If this doesn't play here well, you're going to miss a very special moment in your life, so go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heYTTEqGds)

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Next time BV covers a world event, we hope it's in this hemisphere. Or we're going to have a sleep over, or at least a sleep in or something.

OMG - Are the 2012 Olympics really in London, too?

Cripes and crimony.

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* - Except the MSNBC Morning Joe crew.  Not only can they explain politics over a cup of coffee, but they know how to cover a wedding, too!

The positive? No jet lag

I’m not going to be ungracious. I did post my best wishes to the lucky couple:

(Click on the image if it's too small to read.)

And seriously, I mean every word.

I guess it won’t be the first wedding that my invitation “must have gotten lost in the mail.”

In fact, I got that a lot. So, it seems, did George. Maybe that’s why he and I, despite what the videos lead you to believe, get along.

It’s sort of like being too practiced in the phrase, “Hey guys, wait up!”  You know, that day in grade school when you realize that you’re  saying that, like, all the time?

But I digress.

Budding Ventriloquist Covers The Royal Wedding will go on.  The miracles of technology, like live links, teleconferencing, and snooze alarms make it all possible.

And I know there’s going to be a lot of darn fine competition.  For instance, my favorite gang at MSNBC’s Morning Joe is going to be Live From London.  They’re making such a big deal out of it, they even photoshopped pictures of themselves into their promo logo.

(I ask you – what serious journalism effort has time to learn Photoshop?  That sucker is really complicated.  I bet it was Mika Brzezinski. She’s the real brains behind that show.  Though I guess Morning Mika just doesn’t have that same ring.)

It’s too bad we couldn’t have teamed up.  Wouldn’t you have loved to hear George and Pat Buchanon arguing over boutonniere etiquette? Over great garter toss fiascos of the past? Over how drunk the best man was when he makes the toast?  Over the hilarity of the whole wedding party dancing the worm at the reception?


I do want to make this point, and I'm sure every news media columnist or commentator or watcher (who isn't jealous) will tell you this as well:

Budding Ventriloquist Covers The Royal Wedding is the only wedding coverage that is making the ventriloquist view relevant on any media source. Period.

'Nuff said.

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To the Morning Joe gang:

If I learn Photoshop (and take the burden off of Mika), can I get a job with you?

BV preRSVPs, OK?

Just saying - travel arrangements take time, Lord Chamberlain. You know they do.

Hotel rooms need to be booked, plane tickets bought, limousines arranged ... alarm clocks need to be reset to Greenwich Mean Time. I would do that now, so George and I get used to it.

Yes, even a puppet has a circadian rhythm.

So were is the invitation?

Okay, I did get ahead of myself. I got non-refundable airline tickets already.  And I probably shouldn't have given YeOldeLondoneCabbie.Com my credit card number.  It's website did seem a bit cheesy, even if it looked like English cheese. They even sent me a confirmation with my name in old English - Ye Olde Dane Bushmane.

And to keep costs down, George and I had a little tiff (how Brit of us... a "tiff"!) about our lodging.  He kept saying after the dumps that we stayed in during Budding Ventriloquist Presents Gridiron Gurus, he wanted something closer to "G-D Buckingham Palace," as he so eloquently said.

After I told him I didn't know what he was talking about because we never actually left my house ... Oh, I get it now. Now I realize why he was laughing.

That old fart.

And of course, then there was the idea of traveling a very European way by staying in a youth hostile, to which he said, "Well, that will half work, we're no youths, but you really can piss me off."

I've called  the United States Postal Service, and they assure me that the invite isn't in any of the lost mail offices.

Maybe the invitation didn't get off the Isles?  Do you folks have a lost letter department in your post office? I mean, if that's it, I understand. Letters get lost all the time.

And you are inviting at least one ventriloquist, aren't you?

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FYI - this document has been determined to be a hoax.

I knew it from the second I saw it.  The fonts don't match.  Duh.

What kind of weirdo would mock up such an unconvincing counterfeit?

And list George first?

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Am I just coming at this all wrong?  Maybe the ticket to getting an invitation is to pretend I have something better to do than go to the wedding. 

I would just say, "Oh, yes, the wedding.  I was going to be on holiday in Versailles that whole week, but perhaps I could consider dragging myself out of the fourposter, just for kids. Kate and Will need so much support."

Yea, that just might work.

Release the newshounds!

Dan and George are back!

On Valentine's Day, Budding Ventriloquist announced that it would be the only ventriloquist blog on the internet (like there's anywhere else blogs appear?) to cover the marriage of Kate Middleton to Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales.

We're calling it:

Budding Ventriloquist Covers The Royal Wedding

Catchy, isn't it? It's like something that only appears in a dream.

Truth is, it's really just an opportunity for George and I to put on our tuxes. That's something that the Bidding Ventriloquist Presents Gridiron Gurus shows just didn't play to. It's not every ventriloquist team that can jump from sweatshirts to formal wear. (And if you happen to have a tux in a 2 toddler that you're willing to give up at rummage sale price, let me know.  We're just one tux short right now.)

Here's the premiere. Take a deep breath and be ready to be amazed. I'm not saying it will amaze you, but being ready won't hurt.

(If it doesn't play here, go watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTnr1vWg5to)

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This was really fun. I really missed making these movies. There's magic to the illusion. For instance, I had a royal blue top on, so I bet you assumed I had coordinated pants on. Admit it, you did.

Well, I didn't. But I'm not telling you what I did or did not have on pants-wise.  You'll just have to wonder.

BREAKING NEWS: BV to cover royal wedding

Hudson, WI (VPI) - Dan Bushman, executive producer and co-host of Budding Ventriloquist Presents Gridiron Gurus,  annouced today that Budding Ventriloquist is commiting to cover the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William on April 29, 2011.

"We have a lot of stuff to figure out," Bushman said, setting his watch to London time. Bushman was the executive producer of the Budding Ventriloquist Winter Olympic Coverage in 2010.

"Covering the Winter Olympics almost ate our lunch, but we learned not to underestimate what can be done without leaving Hudson, Wisconsin."

Bushman annouced that he and George Budding, the cohost of the highly successful Gurus series, will coanchor the coverage. "George is working on how to say 'tea and crumpets' as we speak," Bushman said. "Though not in a particularly nice way. The idea will grow on him."

When asked if Max LeMonk and Steve Hideaway from the Winter Olympic coverage team would be part of the staff, Bushman said only that he could not talk about ongoing contract negotiations. "Getting top talent is always a challenge."

"We are gonig to pull out all the stops," Bushman said in his closing remarks. "Hopefully our audience on the webwaves does the same. Or, I mean, doesn't want us to stop. Right?"

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More on this story as it develops.
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