NEW YORK (AP) -- Senor Wences, the master ventriloquist who delighted ``Ed Sullivan Show'' audiences by bantering in a comic Spanish accent with his puppet-in-a-box Pedro (``S'OK?'' ``S'awright!'') and his falsetto-voiced hand puppet Johnny, died Tuesday at 103.

The Spanish-born Wences, whose real name was Wenceslao Moreno, died at his home in New York City.

During the Golden Age of television in the 1950s and '60s, Wences bickered and bantered with his puppets while he drank, smoked and juggled.

One of his puppets was gravelly-voiced Pedro, who consisted only of a head in a box. Pedro was born out of necessity when Wences' ventriloquist's dummy was damaged and only the head was spared.

Another puppet was Johnny, whose comeback line was: ``Deefeecult for you, easy for me.'' Wences created Johnny by scrunching up his fist, drawing a mouth where thumb and index finger met, and draping a blond wig over the top.

Wences would talk to his puppets with his face right in theirs, as if daring the audience to watch his lips, which, of course, never moved.

Pedro's voice would become clearer as the door to his box opened, and muffled as it closed. Audiences forgot the sound was really coming from outside the box.

Wences would stuff a hankie in Johnny's mouth and have the puppet speak with a muffled voice while he himself smoked a cigarette. Then he would give Johnny a drag, and the puppet -- that is, Wences' hand -- would somehow emit perfect smoke rings.

``Most of us were in awe of Wences,'' ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson once said. ``He could get laughs just by saying, `S'awright!' And I still don't know how he got those smoke rings out of Johnny.''

There were no jokes, just what one writer has described as ``bizarre, farcical, Spanish-accented patter.'' ``The main thing he taught me was it's not about the joke,'' said twentysomething ventriloquist Michele LaFong, who became friends with Wences and inherited his original Pedro and Johnny puppets. ``Even though you know what's coming, you laugh anyway. That's the difference between someone who relies on a punch line or someone who's just plain funny.''

In between his many Sullivan show appearances, he entertained four presidents, toured with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, did a Broadway show with Danny Kaye and played every casino in Vegas.

He had a precise, economical act: 19 minutes with a one-minute encore. He would ask the promoter for only a card table and a glass of water.

He continued touring into his early 90s.

Wences was born in Penarada, Spain, and discovered his gift for mimicry amusing his classmates in grade school.

In 1934, when he came to the United States, Wences was conventional --``another ventriloquist with a dummy,'' as he put it. But two years later, en route to Chicago, his act was transformed when his dummy, Pedro, was crushed in a baggage car accident. Wences bought a box, stuck the head inside, and -- on stage that day -- inquired if he was OK.

Pedro replied: ``S'awright!''