#612 – Quiet
Posted on October 15, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I’m starting to think that you have to learn to be tricked by ventriloquism. I’ve had lots of experience playing with kids and puppets and pretending that they can talk. If they are young enough they can really believe that the puppets are alive. My 9-month-old son is having none of that. I can hold a puppet or teddy bear in front of him and bounce it around and make silly sounds and he enjoys that. But as soon as I try to pretend that the puppet is singing or talking he turns his head and looks at me. He just knows that’s where singing and talking comes from. Maybe that’s what Sesame Street is for… teaching you to believe in talking puppets.
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lol nice.
Hello, lamppost.
Mimes are scary,but a biff mime is real scary.
Absolutely awesome. This might just be my favourite Biff comic, ever. Hilarious.
*silence*
*applause from crowd for the stunningly new and refreshing act*
Lol. XD
With regards to making kids believe in talking puppets, whenever anyone in our house tried to make one of my nephew’s toys “talk” he’ll take the toy off of them and then give it to someone else to hear how they do the voice instead.
Acting week? Anyways, this comic is pure win. 🙂
Might be entertainment week, instead.
How avant garde!
Not like Biff speaks anyway!
This was a ‘loudly cackle, and then try to be quiet so I don’t wake the household’ Biff comic.
I definitely needed this for going into work today, so thanks muchly, Chris!
@angusgangus – Ha, a cackle!
It’s amazing how you can stay so funny this long. I mean, sure there have been some comics that weren’t really funny, but there few of those.
Maybe you just aren’t a very good ventriloquist?
Biff looks particularly squinty today. Or at least that’s what I thought until I noticed the mime lines. Or the Alice Cooper eyes, for those who persist in seeing the creepy in everything you do. (lately)
If you haven’t already seen him, you need to check out Jeff Dunham on Youtube; he is the best ventriliquist I have ever seen. He has a couple of DVDs out that are awesome. When I watch the DVDs, I always end up with a snap to reality where I realize that I had been watching a conversation between three individuals and had lost the realization that it is one guy with two dummies.
i lol’d ^^ hilarious
Ventriloquism and mime. So basically he sits there in that position for 2 hours, then bows and walks off the stage…
Though I’d problably by a ticket for that. <–Not sarcasm
No no, he acts out what he says, but he only acts out the puppet speaking.
You know, that’d probably be a good setup for a joke.
lol i really like this one!!! i just started reading biff a few days ago and i’ve caught up already, they’re so funny and addictive. keep up the good work ^-^
@goldielocks – Thanks!
These people have no culture.
P.S. For those of you who play HALO, the Arbiter doesn’t get the respect he deserves
Biff… what can I say. You’ve made me laugh once again.
@Arbiter13 – The arbiter is a traitor, and can’t be trusted.
This brings to mind the old joke: If a mime is arrested, does he still have to be told that he has the right to remain silent?
Reminds me of the time I went on stage as a speechless standup comedian.
It didn`t go well.
BTW, theatre week.
I wonder how long an audience would be able to put up with Biff’s act… does he put the dummy away in an invisible box too? XD
Monday’s doesn’t fit that, Zaffa.
Biff needs a sock puppet with gigantic eyebrows.
@speakerblast- Socko Biff!
@Arbiter13: As someone who hates playing as a human (in any video game), I have to agree. But where did that come from?
that has got to be a very silent hand puppet 🙂
Looking at the thumbnail, I expected there to be no caption!
Knowing Biff’s life, Lord Vetinari should be somewhere in the crowd waiting for the newly-constructed scorpion pit to open up under Biff.
hilarious! a very dull performance though…lol
Scorpion pit’s nothing…The Patrician COULD make him run the Post Office, or the Mint if he’s REALLY perturbed.
@Torg: Well, for one thing, Bungie won’t let us use the Arbiter armor in multiplayer, he’s got a better backstory than the rest of the characters combined, and usually, if I change my name, then I feel the need to comment on it.
P.S.- Now I’m kenji1the1ninja
Acchhhh-med the dead….. handpuppet?
O.o I just laughed an no sound came out…ironic. XD
so I guess I didnt LOL this time. ^_^
It took me a bit to notice he had white paint on. >>;;
heheheh classic.
I’m convinced Biff is secretly a Bowie fan. David Bowie wanted to become a mime as well, but then ended up having success with singing.
hehe…great joke, Chris! “Ventrilo-Mime” is a great way to confuse the heck outta everyone! 😀
…of course, the sad part is that i might actually understand what he’s trying to say…and it might keep me amused for 3 days straight…
If you don’t think puppets can talk, just search for Taylor Mason on YouTube.