Chuck Campbell (& Bob) - Ventriloquist and dummy on the prime time situation comedy com SOAP/ABC/1977-81. Bob was the inseparable alterego of Chuck Campbell (Jay Johnson), a slightly schizophrenic man who used his dummy Bob to express off-color opinions towards his family. The wooden wise-mouth once said "I hate dogs, I used to be a tree." Jay Johnson reprised his daffy characterization of a man with his dummy on the police drama BROKEN BADGES/CBS/1990 where he played a mentally off-centered police officer named Stanley who carried around a ventriloquist dummy in a suit case.

TRIVIA NOTE: The term "ventriloquism" comes from the Latin words "venter" and "loquor" which mean "belly" and "to speak." The phrase "Hey, stop putting words into my mouth" was coined by Greek playwright, Aristophanes in his  422 B.C. comedy entitled "Wasps."