As a ventriloquist Willie Brown has toured with celebrities, made television appearances and cheered battle weary soldiers and all without uttering a word of profanity during a show.He will be performing in Bermuda on Saturday in Extreme Entertainment’s Lord Let Me Laugh comedy event along with his puppets Uncle Rufus and Woody and comedians Mike Goodwin, and Crystal P.“We are committed to gospel comedy,” he said. “It is clean family comedy. We try to keep within the morality of the Christian faith, but anyone can get our comedy. We are not preaching although you might hear a message if you listen.”Mr Brown has toured with Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns. He has also worked with celebrities such as Steve Harvey, Gladys Knight, and Boyz to Men and been on BET’s Comic View, and HBO Def Comedy Jam among other things.He said there were so many things on television that children shouldn’t be watching, that it caused fragmentation in the family. Children go to their bedrooms to watch television, dad watches television in the den and mom watches it in her bedroom.“My goal is to try to bring the family back together by changing the face of entertainment,” he said. “I grew up in a southern Baptist household. My parents taught us to try to be good. No one is perfect. You have to have integrity and care for others. We were taught not to use profanity.”Mr Brown got into ventriloquism at the age of 13. His mother brought him his first puppet as a Christmas gift, and he went about learning the basics of throwing his voice. He said ventriloquism was like playing an instrument; only the instrument was your voice. It takes skill and practice.“It is really an illusion,” he said. “It is like the art of magic. Originally, I was inspired by Jay Johnson from the television show ‘Soap’. When I saw him I knew I wanted to be a ventriloquist. I was also inspired by Willie Tyler of Willie Tyler & Lewis fame. He was a black ventriloquist in the United States.”Keeping it real in a clean way, has had its ups and downs, especially when he was first starting out in comedy.“Being in comedy clubs years ago was challenging because so many comedians were doing blue material that by the time I got on stage they had touched on every subject and taken the audience’s mind to dark places. If you come on like Bill Cosby after that no one wants to hear it.”But he believed that ultimately the world was looking for something else.“I am trying to provide wholesome comedy,” he said. “I believe God created comedy. It is almost like breathing. We have to laugh. Laughter is good for the soul.”Today, he travels all over the world with Uncle Rufus and Woody. He does shows for many churches and he has also performed at military bases including ones in Iraq.“Iraq was pretty gritty,” he said. “I have done a lot of overseas military tours but that was the toughest. Because we were at war there was always a threat of incoming shelling. Everyone was constantly on alert. That took it to another level. It was more than comedy. The troops were so happy we had come over to entertain them. The soldiers were on edge and constantly walking around in a state of readiness.”But he said in situations like that you just had to do your thing, even if you had flown in on a Black Hawk helicopter.“Laughter is powerful,” he said. “I believe it breaks the yoke of depression.”The clean comedy circuit is successful enough that he runs an agency called the Clean Comedy Clinic. His clinic books other clean comedians to perform all over the place. He has performed in Bermuda twice before, the last time about four years ago.Lord Let Me Laugh will be held tomorrow at the Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts at CedarBridge Academy in Devonshire. The event is hosted by Teneika Eve and the Seventh Day Adventist Choir will also perform.Tickets are $55 for adults, $25 for children under 15 years old and $65 for VIP tickets available at Music Box, Kit N Kaboodle and online at www.bdatix.com. Doors open at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm.For more information see www.cleancomedyclinic.com.