How did you and Cecil meet? Carla: I'd been living in New York City's East Village for a few years struggling as an ‘ar tist’. Walking home one day I found a discarded, dusty steamer trunk on the corner. Something inside me told me to open it, while the other par t of me totally disregarded my fear of the bedbug epidemic. When I opened it up, there he was: Cecil Sinclaire! Right away he began to tell me tales of performing in vaudeville and music hall shows and how he could take me to the heights he’d achieved so many years ago. I told him I wanted to make it to the ‘big time’. He told me the only thing that was going to make it big was my waist line. The rest is history. Cecil: My story is quite different. I was locked away for years, due to having an affair with an overage and overweight chorus girl, sleeping peacefully. A f loozie opened my trunk and disturbed my golden slumber! Now I'm in a strange land with a sidekick that looks like Shirley Temple on heroin! The kicker is... I gave her bedbugs and I'm responsible for the current worldwide bedbug epidemic.
Morecambe and Wise
STOLE MY ENTIRE ACT THEY OWE ME a bag of sweets
and an apology
What attracted you to ventriloquism? Carla: At the tender age of nine, I saw Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop on television. I was strangely attracted to them both and decided that I wanted to be a ventriloquist! Cecil:What's a ventriloquist? I'd hate to share the bill with one of those – please tell me Carla isn't a... you know what... I'd rather perform with a mime!
What would you both be doing if you weren’t doing this? Carla: I'd most likely be a rock star or a hair model. Cecil: I'd be living a much better life with a classier lady who doesn't resemble an overfed poodle! I'd be touring the vaudeville circuit and making the transition from silents to talkies! I'd be in the big time, making the silver screen beg for forgiveness!
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