Jeff Dunham is the Edgar Bergen of 2008. A SoCal friend from long, long ago, sent along these YouTube & MySpace video clips of Jeff Dunham with one of his most popular "dummies": Walter, the Grumpy Old Man. Walter is a retiree whose arms are always crossed in discontent. Married 47 years, he has a brash, negative, and often sarcastic view on today's world. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a former welder, and "doesn't give a damn" about anyone; especially his own wife. Demonstrating improvisational comedy, Jeff sometimes does a segment at the end of Walter's routine in which Walter answers questions that the audience members were asked to provide prior to the show. Now, Walter is running for President of the United States of America. Only in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave do we have the prospect of one dummy succeding another. If this is (fair & balanced) voice projection, so be it.
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[Jeff Dunham is an award winning ventriloquist and a stand-up comedian. He has performed on numerous comedy shows, including Comedy Central Presents in 2003. His usual puppets include a woozle (a fictional creature mentioned in the Winnie the Pooh stories) named Peanut, a bitter old man named Walter, a dead terrorist named Achmed, José Jalapeño — a talking jalapeño pepper on a stick, Bubba J, a beer-loving NASCAR-enthusiast and redneck, Sweet Daddy D, Dunham's African American "manager," and most recently, Melvin, the Super-Hero Guy. Dunham was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Baylor University. He now is a SoCal guy who performs many gigs in Orange County.]
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Jeff Dunham is perhaps the greatest ventriloquist alive... or at least the funniest
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