vann duke and sammy AUTOBIOGRAPHY the true story of a poor boy that found a reason to live!

my friend Marcel and I in middle school years would go around the city looking for odd jobs such as cuting yards grass,picking up trash,washing high rollers and drug dealers cars in the hood/ghetto.one day we were walking by a night club called the fam room,the owner was out in his parking lot bitching and raving about the broken beer bottles,glass,cigarette butts,and trash his club goers left from last night.he turned and looked at me and Marcel and start yelling at us, "do you see this s**t!,I ain't gonna be cleaning up behind these grown mother f**kers!"every f**kin night"! the club owner was up in age,so Marcel and I took the broom from him and started cleaning up the parking lot,he gave us a facial expression of grateful and said y'all let me know when you finish,I remember me and Marcel high five and dancing while we cleaned up the parking lot because we knew we were going to get paid big.after we finish the parking lot we went inside,of course it's day...

"NETWORKING" being a semi pro ventriloquist I was always on the go and on the move.in my days as a amateur ventriloquist I did a lot of looking for places to do shows.I kept  notebooks of phone numbers and addresses of places that had open Mic night,talent show promoters,I had the names and numbers to the local library with the librarian,I did shows at the library,my act was magic and storytelling,I would read a story book to children in the library and sammy would add humor and comedy while I read the story.Mrs.Eldred was a librarian that put a talent show together,so I could host it,she also had a local cable television company film the talent show,it's weird that as an amateur I was hosting and master of ceremonies of a talent show on cable television,I saw me and sammy on cable television,I was so happy,it was local television but for a amateur it was wonderful! in networking you never know where one lead will lead,I went from storytelling to hosting a neighborhood l...

What you are about to read is a true writing on my life as a young poor African American boy growing up in the hood and ghetto.let us take a short walk down the street of the hoods and ghetto of my childhood in California.what I saw happening to teenage girls.in poor neighborhoods people are trying to survive on a day to day basis.Those who have and those who have not.As a teen,a county check was a ticket out the hood or ghetto for young girls,selling drugs was a ticket out the hood or ghetto for a young boy.a young girl get pregnant by a grown man because that man had a home.you see it a lot with those ballers,nice car,nice apartment on the borderline of the hoods and ghetto,these guys were college students with middle school baby mama's,us regular boys couldn't compete with them.I remember in middle school sitting on a girl I liked front porch name "netha",she liked me too,because she lived two neighborhoods away from me and would come to visit me.when she did visit...

in middle school I was a amateur ventriloquist,my friends would say what sammy said was so funny,some people said sammy be acting a fool.my mother said "vann duke and sammy is outrageous,my older brother said my act is "offensive".at one comedy club the master of ceremonies,M.C. would introduce Vann duke and sammy to the audiences with theses words,"vann duke is a real nice guy but that sammy(?),ladies and gentlemen welcome vann duke and sammy to the stage!".one night performing at a night club a woman was laughing with sammy,the man she was sitting next to said to the woman "why are you laughing at that?" the woman said because that s**t is funny".a lot of words has been said to me about vann duke and sammy,but one word I have not heard is the word "BORING". _______________________________________________ ( HAWK EYES ) Today as I write,in my real life I am working at a real job in the real world,I run the royal kingdom presents product...

I had a second sammy created because the first sammy was retiring from the stage of live performance and was going on permanent display in a storage facility.Sammy the second was created by a famous ventriloquist figure marker named Kevin D,the first sammy was created by the famous ventriloquist figure marker named Clinton D,yes father and son ventriloquist figure markers,both very gifted and talented.sammy the second blue print design for him was just to focus on my comedy material when on stage,this mean no distractions on his control stick,not like sammy number one with eye control,mouth control,eyebrows control.Sammy number two had one control on his head stick and that was mouth control.since number one was full of animation features,I added stationary green eyes for sammy the second.when Kevin D.was creating sammy the second,he said "vann you're going to like this one" and when sammy the second finally arrived to me,I did love him,and so did the audiences, and this ...

(VANN DUKE AND SAMMY AUTOBIOGRAPHY) During my high school years I was starting my semi pro ventriloquist career in show business,I was on the hustle and bustle,the daily grind of SHOW business!.one day me,Michael,Marcel,Rome and Michael sister name Sondra was sitting at my kitchen table and Sondra was bragging about her golden bird fried chicken pay check,where she worked.so she said she wanted to play the game called big bank take little bank,this game is a street hustlers game,where who ever has the most money in their pockets at the moment take the person money that has the small amount of money.so Sondra lay her golden bird fried chicken pay check face down on the kitchen table and I lay one of my ventriloquist shows pay checks face down on the kitchen table,Michael,Marcel and Rome counted to three!, one! two! Three! and me and Sondra turn our paychecks face up at the same time.well Sondra started crying and me,Marcel,Michael and Rome started laughing.she was crying real tears,but...

when I told my mother  that I wanted to become a ventriloquist she beat the crap out of me. anytime I mentioned the art of ventriloquism to my mother she would say little African American boys do not do things like that so I would tell her about willie tyler and lester,Richard and willie, Aaron Williams and Freddy.during middle school my mother saw how serious I was about becoming a ventriloquist because all I did was eat and breath the art of ventriloquism.even the teachers in school how serious I was about becoming a ventriloquist,because in those days education was life and schools actually cared about the students future,and a student could request his or her own classes with a career counselor but math and English classes was a must.l had wood shop classes where I made my bodies for my ventriloquist figures,I had drama class and joined the drama club where I spent a lot of time,I had band- the trumpet-the tuba-the saxophone,also had creative writing class that class my grades ...