ByThose Funny Little People famously competed on season 6 of NBC's "America's Got Talent," and briefly appeared in the 1993 movie "The Fugitive."Valerie Shike's two-car garage in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin houses racks of colorful costumes, dozens of oversized hats and decades of Chicago area entertainment royalty. Her business, Those Funny Little People Enterprises, Inc., has been delighting parades, weddings, parties and other events for 45 years.
"I always say they look like short people with big heads because that's the best way to describe them," Shike said. "It's more of an optical illusion; they're smaller in stature but big in fun." Shike said Those Funny Little People do over 30 parades and over 300 shows per year in the Chicago metro area, Milwaukee metro area and northwest Indiana. Fifty iterations of the costume exist for every occasion, and a pair of performers usually work together at events.
Shike said she worked for Those Funny Little People for several years in an on-and-off-again capacity. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company experienced a massive decline in business, and owners Dave Gregoire and Sarah Polarek started considering their options.
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