But if you have one idiot out of a group behaving incredibly badly, then that person deserves to be made fun of.”Ī native of Dallas, Dunham built many of his first puppets himself. I mean, if a group of people believe or think one thing, that’s their right. “Never make fun of big groups of people,” he said. What the characters do is give you a licence to go a little further than you would as a human being, simply because they’re not real. “People accuse me of using the puppets as a vehicle to shoot off about my own beliefs or to tell terrible jokes that I believe in,” Dunham told The Guardian during 2018 tour dates in England. Achmed is described as the skeletal remains of an incompetent suicide bomber who shouts, “Silence, I keel you!” when provoked. José, a sombrero-wearing pepper on a stick that speaks in a thick Spanish accent, is often a foil for Peanut’s less than enlightened views on diversity.
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The hyperactive Peanut, with purple skin and white fur, is classified as a “woozle” and delights in getting under Dunham’s skin with observations about the comedian’s looks and behavior.Ī little more controversial are puppets like José Jalapeño and Achmed the Dead Terrorist. Walter is a squinty-eyed, “get off my lawn”-type old man who continually grouses about his wife. Among the most widely used are the aforementioned Walter and Peanut. With Larry, Dunham has said he doesn’t want to take political sides, “but you can’t ignore the elephant in the room.” Trump’s tweets, marriage and revolving staff door are all fair game, with Larry claiming that Trump holds “Firing Fridays,” similar to “Taco Tuesdays.”ĭunham has more than a dozen definitely-not-G-rated puppet foils in his repertoire. In the special, Dunham observes, “You’re a little stressed out.” Larry replies, “Oh, ya think?!” Larry was introduced in “Jeff Dunham: Beside Himself,” the ventriloquist-comedian’s second special for Netflix that premiered Sept. In addition to his regular crew, Dunham will be toting his latest addition, Larry, a jittery, cigarette-smoking White House adviser. 31 stop at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh as part of the “Jeff Dunham: Seriously” tour. Imagine trying to talk, only to be constantly interrupted by a motley crew of characters with names like Peanut, José Jalapeño and Bubba J.īut for ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, the pain is self-inflicted, as he plays straight man to that trio and other puppets, including grumpy old man Walter and Achmed the Dead Terrorist.ĭunham and his foul-mouthed, happily dysfunctional company will make a Dec.
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