EVERYBODY LOVES TEXAS TIDBITS FOR TODAY JEFF DUNHAM - VENTRILOQUIST AUGUST 2014 Jeff Dunham (born April 18, 1962) in Dallas Texas is a ventriloquist and stand-up comedian. When he was three months old he was adopted by real estate appraiser Howard Dunham, and his homemaker wife Joyce, who raised him in a devoutly Presbyterian household in an affluent Dallas neighborhood as an only child. He began ventriloquism in 1970 at age 8, when his parents gave him a Mortimer Snerd dummy for Christmas, and an accompanying how-to album. The next day he checked out a how-to book on ventriloquism from the library, and explained in 2011 that he still had it, remarking that he was a thief in the third grade. By the fourth grade, Dunham decided he not only wanted to be a professional ventriloquist, but the best one ever. He perhaps has achieved that status as he is wildly popular and has appeared on numerous television shows, including The Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents and The Tonight Show. He has five specials that run on Comedy Central: Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, Jeff Dunhams Very Special Christmas Special, Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos and Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters. Dunham also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show, a series on the network in 2009. His style has been described as a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder. Describing his characters, Time magazine said, 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.
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