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Article: Where are ... Willie Tyler & Lester?(ventriloquist )
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- April 21, 2008
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They are perhaps the country's most renowned African-American ventriloquist team, Willie Tyler and his buddy Lester.
For nearly 40 years, the duo has been joined at the hip, traveling the country and making people laugh.
The two first won nation,-d prominence in 1968 on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" as regular performers on the TV series. They later made appearances in commercials and on shows such as "The Electric Company," "The Flip Wilson Show," "The Jeffersons" and "Hollywood Squares."
They've also worked with greats such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Whoopi Goldberg and Jay Leno. They've traveled through all of the 50 ...