STREET PERFORMER

You can make money with your ventriloquist act by becoming a street performer just go to the local city hall to get a permit,you pay a small fee at the city hall.you can also rent a space at a swapmeet,doing a show at a swapmeet is a big money maker for a ventriloquist because the audience is already there, all you may need is a tip jar.as a street performer you will be entertaining the people that are shopping at the swapmeet.instead of selling clothes like all the other salesperson,you will be selling your ventriloquist act,so you might want to invest in chairs,microphone and amp sound speakers.being a street performer can lead to fame just like ventriloquist otto and George.you can be a street performer at the beach,if it has a board walk with shops,the Santa Monica beach pier street performer permit is around thirty dollars at santa Monica city hall if I can remember correctly it's been so long ago,you also need a state permit from the California franchise tax board to be a street performer in California,well I did say show business is no JOKE,it's a business.you can also be a street performer at barber shops,yes it's true,during some self promotions,renting a booth in a large barber shop and entertaining the customers was a good quick come up,do you scratch your head on how the hell can that be? well I have a self promotion company called the royal kingdom presents production company,so it's the knowledge and abilities to make this event happened,it's a deal.understanding the "deal" vann duke and sammy is sitting in a rented barber chair entertaining your customers and his invites from his promotion company,your barber shop has asses in the seats and feets in the door,you also have a space being rented for the month that will be used for four Saturday's and four hours.

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('MY NIGGA')

let's get you some bread!, let's make that butter!, show business is a BUSINESS! bro when I was growing up you didn't fuck with no one business,they would cut you down to little tiny bits..did you know there's real life Tony montana,I have walked with real niggas, I have seen some real shit in my youth,now today what I see in real life is a fucking JOKE..California ghettos are not the way they used to be so when you living in this new generation read this vann duke and Sammy autobiography, you may wonder off a thousand miles, but, I don't give a fuck about what you think,by the end of this chapter I will tell you some info on how to get you some show business bread but first I want to make a couple of views on these businesses today..remember don king, remember suge knight,they both have documentaries, don't watch the documentaries for entertainment, watch it for show business education.today's business owners play with their businesses and when the business go under they wonder what the fuck happened, I will tell you this class action lawsuits are a motherfucka, but some of these businesses think they have more money than God, strikes and boycott is a shake down, bro! cut your own grass!..another thing I see is managers of these businesses running the mother fucka like they own it "adam where the fuck are you?!..what the fuck did you do to my shit!" that's what God really said to adam in the garden of Eden..another thing is the employees fighting and arguing with customers,hey! business owners where the fuck do you think you funds come from..but you want to cry when business is slow,well sis! and bro! word travel fast!..what I am about to write,read twice..God said becareful you might be entertaining angels,this means just once I would like the president of the United States of America to go undercover as a poor dirty stinky smelly person, and walk into a business to see the out come..he is the president of the United States of America but his appearance is not so,oh only if Obama would have done this..my next point is this,you may ask,why do I used such bad words in this blog?..it's because writing is a freedom of expression and I am truly expressing how I feel about the situation..no offensive to readers but welcome to the real world bitch..now let's get some of this show business bread..what I am about to write,is a knowledge,so when you get this information,you need to study it, then apply it to your own ability...                                      

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                                                                        ('GETTING A SLICE OF $HOW BIZ BREAD')

what make a person a hot ticket? what makes people want to spin their money? your job as a business person is to get people to take their money out of their pocket and happily put it in your pocket,with a big cheese cake smile,what you don't want is the opposite.as a ventriloquist you want repeat customers,then you want referrals from those repeat customers..oh so you get tired of the repeat customers,oh the same old same old,no never say that about show business,because first of all you only work about two hours at that location and you move on,how would you feel working at McDonald's twelve hours shift for the same amount of money,yes really,I was so angry when my wife made me get a real job in the real world,just like my military brother getting a real job in the real world for the first time,or the college graduate getting paid under his/her pay grade for their knowledge and education..remember to always count your SHOWBIZ blessings..now let's get down to business,show business money is not play money,what you need is clientele,people want your service,people NEED your services, a prostitute provides a need and a service, a singer provide a service, a comedian provide a NEED,you say what?...singer versus a comedy comedian,sure you think about that one as a business owner..in show business there's a NEED AND SERVICE, why do a business need your service, for example why should I hire Chris Brown when I can hire a television American idol singer..why should a nightclub hire you the ventriloquist? so you need proof to the answer for that question..what you need to do is also protect your image,because in show business you are the product, and trust me defamation is a real thing in the real world..in the hoods and ghettos customers are made,you say what the hell are you talking about when you say in the hoods and ghettos customers are made?, I did mentioned that we are about to get down to business, Wright?.....

as a young ventriloquist I was on the move,on the go,me and sammy were  hustlers,not in my wildest dreams I could dream up a dude like me selling a ventriloquist act! shit! bro and sista if it ain't broke don't fix it..yes in the hood and ghettos customers are made,my wife started her own business a short after leaving high school doing women hair on the front porch making her own money back in the day,these hair salons today pay a high cost on leasing, you know how I feel about business owners paying the middle man cut that greedy mother fucka out!..you tell the nightclub owners the reason they should hire you the ventriloquist because you don't have a middle man fee, most ventriloquists work with out an agent and if you are a ventriloquist with an agent, you are a ventriloquist and ventriloquists don't need agents, managers o.k. but kick the agent to the curb...remember rapper ice cube and rap group N.W.A. they said many times they get started in show business by selling music out of the trunk of a car..Crenshaw street in los Angeles California back in day was where hustlers did business from the trunk of their cars,movies! 

T-shirts! brand new in the box NIKES!, I liked to see true hustlers brotha and sistas back when.. what's you got going on my brotha? just baking bread my nigga.

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(STACKING CHIPS)

back in the day there was a African American comedian that told jokes on Venice beach shopping path,his name is Michael colyar, I will suggest that you study his work for show business knowledge, ventriloquist Otto and George started out the same way I also suggest you study Otto and George for show business knowledge,you say why should I study those two,it's because those two made something out of nothing,I will explain...I have seen Michael colyar performing in person at Venice beach California,now me being a writing and a student of comedy,I knew his material,the Venice beach California comedian brought big crowds of people to see him,the audience ate his shit up every time,not my style of comedy, I am more of a leroy and skillet style, with a tall glass of Otto and George..learning to make something out of nothing,the study is a street performer with a not so expensive ventriloquist figure rise to fame..The study is a African American comedian on the beach telling jokes to tourists rise to fame. what was the investment for those two people mentioned and what was the return on the investment,that's genius,Wright?..I will tell you what the two mentioned person investment were.. DRIVE! not that drive you dummy,I mean DRIVE TO SUCCEED,the next investment was time,no! not that kind of time,the quality time of DEDICATED and joy,yes that kind of joy..they enjoyed doing what they were doing and the audience would feed off that energy...so find out what you have that cost you close to nothing or nothing at all if you don't have money to get something started with,let's say you like to dance, what I am about to write, read twice, what can you do?is it easy for you to make people laugh, can you burp on command, wait..OMG! can you fart on command,if you can bring a crowd of people to you by farting on command,you are a winner for sure just imagine people buying concert tickets to watch you on stage farting your ass off ..genius!.. Wright?

back in vaudeville days, audiences would spend their hard earned money to buy a ticket to see THE MAN WITH THREE HEADS, or the door to door salesman selling tap water with a sells pitch that the water in the bottle is holy water..as a entertainer, a artist, a performer, your job is basically to amuse, now, what people do with that amusement has nothing to do with you, what do I mean by that, I have seen Willie Tyler and Lester perform many times live on stage,at one of his shows he asked for a volunteer to come up on stage,so I volunteer,so let me stay on subject here..when I was on stage with Willie Tyler and Lester, Willie on the opposite side and Lester next to me, I, I, I, yes I did stutter, I thought Lester was a real person because he was talking to me and the VOICE was coming out of his mouth!..,so I said to myself,wait a minute I am a fucking ventriloquist too! wtf! WRIGHT? how the hell can I fall for this, yes Willie Tyler is a excellent ventriloquist,I mean a ventriloquist need space of about three feet to create the illusion but I was standing directly beside them and I always wanted to meet Lester and WOW!....Barbara Eden mentioned a few times that she's not Jeannie from I dream of Jeannie, no ladies and gentlemen Barbara Eden can not cross her arms and blink her eyes to make your wish come true.so,I say amuse but don't abuse.. some people may think is show business only about making money, the answer is no, there's nonprofit organizations, fund raising shows and also charity events..I remember my band members manager get me a gig at a charity event hosting a children fashion show in Venice California,I will always remember that charity event Vann duke and Sammy hosting a children fashion show,it was in the summer time, when I was packing up to leave, I had some of a few photos of Sammy inside his traveling ventriloquist trunk,and a couple of kids ask for some of them,I said to the kids, those photos are my personal belongings,they are not for sell or give away but a girl and a boy,I think they were brother and sister pick one of the photo up out of Sammy ventriloquist trunk to look at it,it was a photo of my first Sammy in the rose garden at exposition park in los Angeles California when I was a teenager,the little boy and girl asked for that photo,I let them keep the photo,they asked me to write on the back of the photo but I can not remember at this time what I wrote on the back of the photo, maybe something like to Kim and Jack from vann duke and Sammy with the month and year.

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(THE FIRST VANN DUKE AND SAMMY ACTS)

as vann duke and Sammy grow the more careful they became..I had a sell out ACT that people kept booking me for,this was a free style bit where Sammy acted a damn fool..another sell out ACT was a birthday party skit where by surprise Sammy urinate on the adults at the birthday party,the birthday child loved to see their mom or dad being chased around by a pissing Sammy, it was all fun,some of these birthday parties were out doors and no it was not real urine,it's water,I made a ventriloquist dummy body with a hole at the middle bottom that I could stick a small squirting water bottle through,and mom and dad would surprisingly get pissed on by Sammy,oh the looks on the children faces and the drop to the floor laughter from the adults,what memories I have of vann duke and Sammy!..another ACT was the hand shaker,I built a ventriloquist dummy body where the arm could rise upwards to shake someone hand,this ACT was called "sike!!!" Sammy would raise his hand so a person could shake it,when the person go to shake Sammy hand,sammy would lower his hand and say sssiiikkkkee!! or sucker!.....another party favorite ACT that I get booking for was with a ventriloquist dummy name stutter box junior, I created stutter box junior for a time filler, I had a birthday party bit,I would sit a soft birthday cake next to stutter box, the birthday child parent would quietly walk beside stutter box junior and pick up the birthday cake,me pretending not seeing the birthday party child parent but stutter box see the parent holding the birthday cake in hand, stutter box trying to warn me but start stuttering, look look look look look look look, I turned to say to stutter box,look where? and get a cake smashed in my face by the birthday party child parent, then stutter box junior says, look out!..I share this with you because you need to create a few skits and bits for your show business profile and resume..just like magician david Copperfield, and Houdini as an escape artist..a parent saw a skit or bit at her sister birthday and wanted to have it performed at her birthday party, a uncle enjoyed it the show he invite you to entertain at his small business Christmas party, three employees at the uncle small business Christmas party hire you for their birthday party,be sure to hand out business card to everyone at every event you do a show at,I said everyone,even if they throw it in the trash but check this out,the trash man might see it,or the janitor cleaning up the birthday party might see it.remember in show business, every person  is a future customer.

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(LEMON JUICE)

so you thinking just because you work as a dishwasher at a dead end job you can't make it in show business....I was so angry when my wife made me get a real job in the real world..  getting a job in the real world was not like show business, shit! in show business you get money for just showing the fuck up!!!!. food! one thing about show business it's always FOOD!! at the shows for the entertainers,oh my god! beer! wine! many times I went back home after a show fucked up! DRUNK!..so let's get you some show business bread Mr.dishwasher,in the real world at your dead end job,you have hopes to continue your show business dream..I was very depressed about getting a real job in the real world but continue to do my show business career, marriage, show business and real job in the real world was not easy so I want you to know I feel your pain Mr.dishwasher in a dead end job...When my production company was planning  a event I would go to my job in the real world payroll department and file "EXEMPT" for that year only, when I file exempt I had more money to work with to produce my show from the real world job but it would not be fare if I don't mention the consequence for filing exempt,if you file exempt you have less taxes taken out of your dead end job pay check,giving you more money for a year but you pay for that money next year with penalties and interest, so why file exempt? sometimes in show business I needed front money,this is called "put up or shut up" it's a numbers game and numbers look good on paper but you know Damn well you better not touch that money,it's only to build up,at the end of the year you undo the exempt at your dead end job,pay the tax man his share and go in to production,just look at it like borrowing your own money....another way Mr.dishwasher you can squeeze some juice out that dead end job for your show business dream is PAYDAY LOANS back in the day they had a payday loan office on every block, liquor stores and payday loans ha!ha!, all you needed was a check stub from your real world job and a few references,I kid you not I went in a payday loan office for a two thousand dollars loan and walked out with three mother fucking grand,cash!!, I remember saying no all I need is two but the loan officer kept counting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and at the same time saying "you qualify for three thousand dollars" I was saying in my mind while the loan officer was counting, this real world shit might not be so bad after all...another way you can squeeze some juice from that dead end job is currency,unfortunately my wife living in America did not know about this,people from other countries come to America to live and they bring currency with them,I don't know about today but back when I was younger,all over downtown los Angeles California there were places where you could buy and sell money, my wife was shocked when I hooked her up on the currency game,matter of fact it's how she kicked her hair business into full gear full speed ahead ..so as you can see Mr.dishwasher if I can do it, you can also.

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before I met my high school sweetheart, my first job ever in my life was show business..my first job in the real world was a job my high school sweetheart friend worked at, my high school sweetheart friend brainwashed my wife into getting me a job at the same place she worked at, the place needed workers badly and was hiring quickly,I had no interest in becoming a loser working at a real job in the real world..but as you get older more responsibility arrive,and also less show business risks are taken and a chance to gamble in show business become rare and rare,what do I mean by that, chance to gamble in show business means, when you are young people listen to you because they want to be apart of your dreams or they want to help you make it happen,meaning my production company had over five joining partners in the times of its existence..but when you get older the chance to gamble in show business become rare and rare,older people have too many bills, and too much debt..my high school sweetheart explain to me what overtime was at a real job in the real world,I laughed because I made more in show business in less time but my high school sweetheart lived in the ghetto, she didn't understand the concept of bigger money in a short time, her argument was her mother worked over time as a nurse at a hospital, her dad worked twelve hours shifts at his job and  "when there is overtime at your job, your black ass is going to work overtime!" her exact words, like a broken record, over and over and over and over again and again...so Mr. Dishwasher at the dead end job, your show business dreams are not over,because I did so much overtime at the real job in the real world, I had the funds to chance to gamble in show business again, I cut the partnership out! I mean, the wife was happy with the extra income and I also had extra money for my show business dream..so yes Mr. Dishwasher at the dead end job,you can still live your dream..so if your job need you to work overtime, start making plans for your next show in show business because now you have some extra money to work with.

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