Reelection.
He was turning things over in his mind.
Pupil: Well you keep saying that things go in one ear and out the other so I am trying to keep them it all in!
Can't Produce Anything
They both tell the audience what they are glad to hear. But at the end, the audience laughs at the comic, and the politician laughs at the audience.
Ventriloquists have to be able to speak with their mouths closed. Politicians speak out of both sides of their mouths simultaneously.
The lips are moving