Otto & George

Otto & George was an adult-themed ventriloquist comedy team composed of comedian Otto Sol Petersen (July 29, 1960 – April 13, 2014) and his dummy George Dudley. Petersen began performing with George as a street act in Manhattan and Brooklyn in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s the act moved into night clubs and began to evolve into an "X-rated" act.

Otto was born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, New York. He is survived by his wife, Trish Conte, his mother, Sylvia Petersen, his brother, Tom Petersen, and a sister, Lona Petersen.

Otto & George were frequent guests on the Opie and Anthony show with side-kick Jim Norton, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Howard Stern Show, Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular & Bullshit! programs, and Showtime's Full Frontal Comedy. The duo also appeared in the feature films Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen with Chris Rock and Tim Allen, and performed a version of the "" joke in Paul Provenza's & Penn Jillette's film of the same name.

Performing for over 30 years, Otto was well renowned as both a comedian and a ventriloquist. One notable aspect of his ventriloquism was that his lips still moved while he spoke with the George voice, but the illusion of there being a different speaker was made with the sharp contrast in the George voice with his own. Otto spoke with a low, rather nervous voice whereas George spoke in a loud, harsher voice.

One of the team's last ventures was their Internet variety show The Pig Roast with Otto & George.

Otto & George performed all over the U.S. and Canada. The duo performed several times at the annual Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montréal, Canada.

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