Gimlet and Finchley 6 - Gimlet and Finchley

It was nighttime, Gimlet and Finchley were ‘asleep’ in the carry-case where they lived when they weren’t performing. But puppets don’t need sleep like we do, so they tend to spend their nights chatting to each other.

“I started out as a solo act,” said Gimlet.

“What, without Ted?”

“No, obviously not. How would that work. I mean me and Ted started out without you.”

“Was it successful?”

“No. Everyone in showbiz was doing the same thing at that time, man on stage talking to a puppet. Ted decided to do something new, something different, he would use two puppets.”

“Is it that different with two puppets?”

“It's a very different dynamic.”

“Dynamic? Is that like dynamite.”

“In a way, yes, we were like dynamite,” said Gimley. “The impact was explosive. With two of us we outnumbered him, we could have conversations on our own, ignoring Ted completely. Often the audience would forget he was there – the sign of a first-rate puppeteer.”

Is that why you always get first billing, because you were in the act before I came along?”

“Yeah, that’ll be the reason.”