sentences:  Alongside Uncle Bill was Woody, a ventriloquist figure who would help Uncle Bill lead into the comic strip to be read from the paper.Next to Woody was Zippy, a fuzzy nondescript animal hand puppet who didn't speak, but would duck under the kitchen table to bring up a variety of props, and engage in zany antics related to the strip that Uncle Bill and Woody were about to read or had just read.Uncle Bill and Woody would deliver a light-hearted lesson about life to the viewers after the reading of each comic strip.