Here’s a story about someone. Every day when I wake up I thank God this guy is alive:
As a full-time entertainer, Joe Gandelman travels across the country year round, but not alone. He is accompanied by his colleagues John, Edwin the Elephant, Smiley the Bulldog and his Uncle Sydney, to name a few.
Gandelman is a ventriloquist and he has been entertaining crowds at the Finney County Fair three times a day this year.
Gandelman was a journalist for about 20 years working in India, Spain, Cypress and Bangladesh and also in the United States as a staff writer on the Wichita Eagle-Beacon and in San Diego. To relieve the stress from working as a staffwriter, he decided to find a hobby that kept him away from his career, he said.
Read the rest HERE.
P.S. This guy looks much better in person than he does in the photo..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.