ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Comic ventriloquist whose best known character, Charlie McCarthy, was presented as a boy dressed in a tuxedo and wearing a monocle. Mortimer Snerd, another of his "dummies" was the stereotypical country bumpkin (You may have heard of his daughter, Candace). Here's Bergan in a clip from a film with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd (a good example of the 'rube' archetype).
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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