We miss the late, great comic actor Carl Ballantine, better known as The Amazing Ballantine. I had the pleasure to work with him and to dine with him and really, there was no one funnier. We miss him on-stage where he did his hilarious magic act where the tricks never worked. We miss him off-stage where he shared a lifetime of great show biz anecdotes.
Before he left us, he recorded the voice track so that his act could "live on" in marionette form. Scott Land is one of the world's great puppeteers and he spent a very long time sculpting and routining his Amazing Ballantine puppet. Here's a little bit of what it does…