What are the names of those puppet thingys?

Question

The ones that they control from the back and they talk with there mouth shut so that they can make the audience think that it is the puppet talking?

Answer 1

What you're thinking of is ventriloquism and the kind of puppet they use is most commonly called a dummy.

Puppets are controlled using a hand in the figure.

Marionettes are controlled externally, usually by either by strings or rods.

Answer 2

I think you mean Marionettes. Puppets are controlled by strings from above.

Answer 3

lol billy marionettes ARE the string puppets.

Erm i knew the name. Is it glove puppets?

Answer 4

Those are called ventriliquist dummies I think.  Those thinks freak me out after watching the movie Dead Silence lol!