Señor Wences

Johnny and Pedro on The Ed Sullivan Show No dummy in the usual sense: Johnny was Wences's own hand as the face, on a little stuffed body with a blonde wig, and Pedro was a head in a box who answered everything with a heavy "S'awright." The props sound thin, yet the act kept coming back to Sullivan's stage; the show's own records count 23 appearances between 1950 and 1971, and other accounts put the number higher. The clips still work because Wences plays it fast and deadpan. It is the purest lesson on this list in how little a puppet needs.