Jeff Dunham

Jeffrey "Jeff" Dunham (born April 18, 1962) is an American ventriloquist, producer, and stand-up comedian who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show and Sonny With a Chance. He has six specials that run on Comedy Central: Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special, Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos, Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters, and Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map. Dunham also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show, a series on the network in 2009.

His style has been described as "a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder". Describing his characters, Time magazine said, "All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered." Dunham has been credited with reviving ventriloquism, and doing more to promote the art form than anyone since Edgar Bergen.

Dunham has been called "America's favorite comedian" by Slate.com, and according to the concert industry publication Pollstar, he is the top-grossing standup act in North America, and is among the most successful acts in Europe as well. As of November 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional $7 million in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube as of October 2009 (his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity was ranked as the ninth most watched YouTube video at the time).A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with its DVD selling over 400,000 in its first two weeks.Forbes.com ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, and reported that he was one of the highest-earning comics from June 2008 to June 2009, earning approximately $30 million during that period. Dunham also does occasional acting roles.

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Famous quotes by Jeff Dunham:

"It will be less of a retail center and have more of a downtown, urban feel."

"I'm happy to see them doing well. I'm encouraged, and you don't really pull together as a team until your pitchers are warmed up."

"We've gotten so used to them making the playoffs, to not even come close was a disappointment. But I've been following the minor league development of the Red Sox on the Web, and it looks like we're going to have a much better, much more competitive team with genuine prospects this year."

"A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things."

"I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist."

"I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it."

"Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick."

"When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit."

"It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s."

"When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs."

"Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it."

"As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark."

"Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at."

"I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech."

"The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married."

"In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months."

"I'm a geek to the bone."

An American Christmas

by Jeff Dunham
Christmas Outside The Box

by Jeff Dunham
From Us to You

by Jeff Dunham
Jeff Dunham

by Jeff Dunham
I Hate Christmas

by Jeff Dunham
Song For Jeff

by Jeff Dunham
Roadkill Christmas

by Jeff Dunham
When Santa Comes To Town

by Jeff Dunham
Jingle Bombs

by Jeff Dunham
Mistletoe

by Jeff Dunham
Achmed The Dead Terrorist

by Jeff Dunham
Don't Come Home for Christmas

by Jeff Dunham
Christmas With The Achmed Family

by Jeff Dunham
Santa Is A Redneck (Bubba J)

by Jeff Dunham
Spark of Insanity

by Jeff Dunham

An American Christmas

by: Jeff Dunham

Just thinking of christmas
Makes me want to cry
Cuz thats the time of year that my back was never dry
We climb out of the ryder truck and race across the sand
Crawl beneath the fence and swim across the Rio Grande
It's an american Christmas for my family
While the border control is home by there christmas tree
We sold everything we had just to get here
and if we get deported we just do it again next year
My brother has a good job
working in L.A.
He brought us up from juarez and this is where we stay.
Mama cooks chimmy changas while papa drives the drives the roach coach truck
I get work by standing in the home depot parking lot
It's American Christmas for my family
illegal *?* undocumented to me.
Everybody say there happy if I was gone
Do they need someone to wash there car and mow there lawns
They dont welcome people here who sneak in from my land
*something something something* from the Micronesian land
Even though Mexico may have been the place of my birth
Can you blame me for want to come to the greatest place on earth?
Its American Christmas in a small house with a yard
This year I'm asking Santa for a green card
I dont want to go back and have to make another round trip

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Jeff Dunham might work with dummies, but he is no dummy ... Dunham, 62, clearly knows what he's doing ... Dunham has tapped into something. Dunham is not afraid to offend ... Jeff Dunham ... "I have to give Jeff Dunham a lot of credit," Fator said.

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 13-19.. Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 13-19. April 13. Actor Edward Fox is 88. Singer Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers is 85. Composer Bill Conti is 83 ... April 14 ... Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is 63.

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The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide ... TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS 1 Coldplay $6,288,674 65,604 $95.86 ... 17 Jeff Dunham $331,415 5,410 $61.25 ... .

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Journal Star - Peoria 01 Apr 2025

Here are 16 things to do in the Peoria area during April.1 ... 4 ... 5. Dr ... An evening of comedy with Jeff Dunham. Stand-up comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will bring his "Artificial Intelligence Tour" to the Peoria Civic Center Arena at 5 p.m ... 8 ... 10 ... 12.

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Matute Disco Stereo Tour is coming to the YouTube Theater

Daily Breeze 29 Mar 2025

Matute is slated to bring their Disco Stereo Tour to the U.S., with a stop at YouTube Theater in Los Angeles on September 11, 2025 ... Related Articles ... Tour. OC Fair 2025. Oliver Anthony, Jeff Dunham and Tribal Seeds are coming to Pacific Amphitheatre ... .

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Daily Breeze 29 Mar 2025

Tickets for the highly anticipated shows go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on April 4 via Ticketmaster.com ... April 2, running through April 3 ... April 1 till 10 p.m ... Oliver Anthony, Jeff Dunham and Tribal Seeds are coming to Pacific Amphitheatre ... .

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Comedian Jeff Dunham gets booed for not knowing Rochester’s famous Garbage Plate

Democrat & Chronicle 24 Mar 2025

Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham always draws a crowd of enthusiastic fans in Rochester ... He then headed to DogTown on Monroe Avenue and got a Junkyard Plate, which Dunham dug into it during the Facebook Live feed.

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Jeff Dunham gives two crucial reasons why he doesn't envy comedians trying to make it today

Fox News 24 Mar 2025

Veteran comedy star and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham says there are a couple of key reasons why he ...

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Ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham in Manchester on Friday

Union Leader 20 Mar 2025

Jeff Dunham compares his live shows to catching your favorite band in concert — you get all the classic hits, a bit of fresh material and, if you’re lucky, a taste of something straight from the tour bus ....

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Comedian Jeff Dunham says Trump victory is ‘a weight off’ comics' backs so they can ...

Fox News 20 Mar 2025

Comedy legend and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham believes that comedians in America could ...

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Latest News for: jeff dunham

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings familiar characters to Alliant EnergyPowerHouse

‘Find your Happy’ OC Fair tickets on sale now

Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 13-19

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

16 things to do in Peoria in April: Big musical acts, comedy shows, wrestling and more

Matute Disco Stereo Tour is coming to the YouTube Theater

LCD Soundsystem and Pulp are co-headlining the Hollywood Bowl

Comedian Jeff Dunham gets booed for not knowing Rochester’s famous Garbage Plate

Jeff Dunham gives two crucial reasons why he doesn't envy comedians trying to make it today

Ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham in Manchester on Friday

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