![]() ![]() I could make fun of the principal, make fun of the lunch ladies, make fun of the teachers that nobody liked. Why didn't I get picked on more in high school? And the answer to that is what got me here now, and that is that I would get up on stage and say the things that none of the other students could. "I finally figured this out not long ago. "Here's the thing," he says with a laugh. And getting up in front of the classmates and doing the shows, there was an instant acceptance there." "I was horrible in sports – I was always picked last. "I was the typical shy kid," he explains. Who are your role models? Edgar Bergen, that most unlikely of acts, a ventriloquist on the radio? Paul Winchell? Wayland Flowers? Shari Lewis? Senor Wences?įor Dunham, it was a way for an awkward child to find a place among his peers. Still, you have to wonder about the attraction – his, not ours – of feeding punchlines to a puppet. The man is no dummy.though he plays with them on TV. This in addition to his specials, his top-selling DVDs and about 120 live concert appearances a year. You may not yet have heard of comic ventriloquist Jeff Dunham – though millions have, making his TV Christmas special the highest-rated show (6.6 million viewers) in the history of American cable's Comedy Central and making him the third highest-earning comedian in the industry, behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock.ĭunham's comedy stock can only rise even higher this fall, when he debuts a new weekly self-titled half hour show on Comedy Central and our own Comedy Network. PASADENA, Calif.- So what's so funny about a dead terrorist? Probably more than a live one, but still.In fact, a dead terrorist can be very funny in the right hands. ![]()
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