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Jeff Dunham (b. 1962)

Birthplace:
Dallas, Texas, USA

Born:
April 18, 1962

Biography from TheMovieDB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Jeff Dunham (born April, 1962) is an American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Star Search, Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show and Sonny With a Chance. He is familiar to Comedy Central audiences for his three specials on that network: Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, and Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special. Dunham also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show for one season on the network in 2009.[1] His style has been described as "a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder". Describing his characters, Time observes, "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 March 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional 7 million dollars in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube (his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity is the ninth most watched YouTube video). A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with its DVD going quadruple platinum (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.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Dunham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2014  Achmed Saves America

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2014  Achmed Saves America

Editor:
2014  Achmed Saves America
2014  Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map

Executive Producer:
2007  Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
2014  Achmed Saves America
2014  Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map
2015  Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
2019  Jeff Dunham: Beside Himself
2024  Jeff Dunham: I'm With Cupid

Writer:
2006  Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself
2007  Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
2008  Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special
2011  Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos
2012  Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters
2014  Achmed Saves America
2014  Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map
2015  Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
2017  Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster
2019  Jeff Dunham: Beside Himself
2020  Jeff Dunham's Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special
2022  Jeff Dunham: Me the People
2023  The Improv: 60 and Still Standing
2024  Jeff Dunham: I'm With Cupid

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Producer:
2009  The Jeff Dunham Show

Writer:
2009  The Jeff Dunham Show

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