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Jeff Dunham Biography

Jeffrey "Jeff" Dunham (born April 18, 1962) is an American ventriloquist and 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.

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I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

Art, Bachelor, Communication, Know, Liberal, Math

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

Dog, Guitar, Look, Manager, Nice, Silly

If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

Choke, Color, Doe, Smurf, Turn

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

Mechanics, Normal, Simple, Teeth, Voice

I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Artist, Coming, Jobs, Keep, Long

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

Back, Gotten, Shows, Stage, Stuff, Thing

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.

High, June, School, Years

I'm a geek to the bone.

Bone, Bones, Geek

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.

Children, Growing Up, Parents, Thing, Thinking, Unusual

I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.

Perfect, Trying, Aspect, Everything, Single

I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me. I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

Abilities, Girl, Kids, Nothing, Pay, Sports

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.

Believe, Christian, Hispanics, Jobs, Laugh, Speech

I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

Grill, Pick, Picks, Prius, Priuses, Used

If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.

Buying, Dvds, Fifteen, Keep, People, Watching

I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.

American, Character, Couple, Female, Guy, Mean

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

Bad, Chalk, Facts, Five, Show, Shows

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

Dead, Laughing, Majority, Make, Terrorist, Trying

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.

1988, College, Grade, Laughing, Shows, Years

I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.

Husband, Nice, Real, Son, Thanks

Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

Character, Head, Puppets, Similar, Stories, Thought

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