When did Otto and George begin to evolve into the “x-rated” current act?”
Otto & George is an adult-themed ventriloquist comedy team composed of comedian Otto Petersen (born July 29, 1960) and his dummy “George”. Petersen began performing with George as a street act in Manhattan and Brooklyn in the early 1970s. In the late 70s the act moved into night clubs and began to evolve into the “x-rated” current act. Background Otto & George are frequent guests on the Opie and Anthony radio show, have appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular & Bullshit! programs, and Showtime’s “Full Frontal Comedy”. The duo have also appeared in the feature films “Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen” with Chris Rock and Tim Allen, and performed a version of the “The Aristocrats” joke in Paul Provenza’s & Penn Gilette’s film of the same name. Performing for over 30 years, Otto is well renowned as both a comedian and a ventriloquist. [1][2] One notable aspect of his ventriloquism is that his lips still move while he speaks with the George voice, but the
Otto & George is an adult-themed ventriloquist comedy team composed of comedian Otto Petersen (born July 29, 1960) and his dummy “George”. Petersen began performing with George as a street act in Manhattan and Brooklyn in the early 1970s. In the late 70s the act moved into night clubs and began to evolve into the “x-rated” current act. Otto & George are frequent guests on the Opie and Anthony radio show, have appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular & Bullshit! programs, and Showtime’s “Full Frontal Comedy”. The duo have also appeared in the feature films “Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen” with Chris Rock and Tim Allen, and performed a version of the “The Aristocrats” joke in Paul Provenza’s & Penn Gilette’s film of the same name.
