“I wasn’t good at sports, I wasn’t popular with other kids. Everybody else seemed to be good at something, but I didn’t have anything.”
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Jeff Dunham
Jeffrey Douglas Dunham is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor 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 seven specials that run on Comedy Central as well as two Netflix specials among others. He also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show, a series that ran in…
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entertainment · American ventriloquist and comedian (born 1962) · ventriloquist · actor · comedian · voice actor · marionetteist · also Jeff Dunham, Jeffrey Dunham, Jeffrey Douglas Dunham, Dunham
Born 18 April 1962 · Q296567
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We were the guys they shoved out on stage with the closed curtain while the headliners got ready. We were always the sideshow, the little guys, the cheap, easy entertainment.
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“We were the guys they shoved out on stage with the closed curtain while the headliners got ready. We were always the sideshow, the little guys, the cheap, easy entertainment.”
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“s not the first time someone has died onstage at the press tour. It is, however, the first time TV critics have stomped and danced on the carcass. Maybe it”
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“s a skeleton, Achmed responds,”
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Published video “Bubba J Talks Beer and Aliens | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “What is Peanut taking | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “Walter Wants a Real Job | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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TicketNews: Jeff Dunham tickets on sale in Rockford
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TicketNews: Jeff Dunham Poughkeepsie tickets on sale for Nov. 21 show
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Published video “The First Time Bubba J Saw His Wife | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “Audience Member Takes a Potty Break! | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “Peanut and the Signer | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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The Guardian: ‘It was fun to get pushed around’: Andrew Rannells on ‘razzle dazzle’, kissing co-stars and being a better friend to Lena Dunham
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Published video “Had a blast on the road this weekend with the super funny, Gabriel “@fluffyguy” Iglesias!”.
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Published video “Why Peanut is worried about Achmed | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “Walter On The Founding Mothers Of America | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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Published video “How did Bubba J do in High School? | JEFF DUNHAM”.
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The Guardian: What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington
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2022· 1 entry
Began his North American Still Not Cancelled Tour
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2021· 1 entry
With his North America and European Seriously
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2017· 1 entry
The same year Dunham received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2015· 1 entry
Dunham announced, via Facebook, that he and Audrey were expecting twin boys
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2014· 1 entry
Country Music Television premiered Achmed Saves America, an animated film starring Achmed the Dead Terrorist
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2011· 1 entry
That he still had it, remarking that he was "a thief in the third grade"
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2010· 1 entry
DVDs, a consumer products partnership, a 60-city tour beginning in September 2010, and an order for a television series called The Jeff Dunham Show that premiered on October 22, 2009
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2008· 2 entries
A TV commercial for a ringtone which featured Dunham's character Achmed the Dead Terrorist (see characters below) was banned by the South African Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a complaint was filed by a cit
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Dunham's time away while performing proved a strain on the marriage and, in November 2008, he filed for divorce.
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2007· 2 entries
Dunham appeared as The Amazing Ken with José Jalapeño on a Stick in the Larry the Cable Guy feature film Delta Farce
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Was ranked as the ninth most watched YouTube video at the time while his A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with the DVD selling over 400,000 copies in its first two
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2003· 3 entries
Dunham appeared on Comedy Central Presents, his first solo appearance on Comedy Central
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Dunham released Dear Walter
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Dunham was the frontrunner to replace Jimmy Kimmel on Fox NFL Sunday, but hosts Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw were not amenable to the idea of being upstaged by a puppet, and, as Dunham tells it, did not provide a welcom
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1998· 1 entry
His club work kept him away from his wife and daughters between two and three weeks each month, which put a strain on his marriage, and made paying bills for his expanded family difficult
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1986· 1 entry
Continued honing his act in comedy clubs in the Southwest with new characters such as Peanut and José Jalapeño, but struggled against the perception he relates from fellow comedians that he was not a true comedian bec
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1985· 1 entry
When he was asked to join the Broadway show Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller, replacing an outgoing variety act
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1980· 1 entry
After he graduated from high school, Dunham gave himself a career goal of obtaining, within ten years, an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which was seen as the "holy grail" for comedians
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1976· 1 entry
When the still prepubescent performer caught the attention of Dallas reporters like Bill O'Reilly, who interviewed Dunham for a local news story
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1970· 1 entry
At age eight, when his parents gave him a Mortimer Snerd dummy for Christmas and an accompanying how-to album
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-04-18.
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1941· 1 entry
To work the plate at a girls' softball game
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