I was doing some research the other day and came across one of the strangest articles I've ever seen; a rabbinical study that suggests that the art of Ventriloquism was damned by God and is in fact, an abomination against god.
See page 1153 -- TORAH
by W. Gunther Plaut & David E. Stein
I can't help but think of all the Jews now bound for hell, because of their days in Vaudeville.