Jeff Dunham
Acting • Born 1962-04-18
Biography
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.
Filmography
58 credits
History of the Joke
Movie • 2008
Self
Just for Laughs: Launching Pad
Movie • 2009
Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
Movie • 2007
Self
Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself
Movie • 2006
Self
Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special
Movie • 2008
Self
Dinner for Schmucks
Movie • 2010
Lewis the Ventriloquist
I'm No Dummy
Movie • 2009
Himself
Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos
Movie • 2011
Self
Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy
Movie • 2011
Self
Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters
Movie • 2012
Self
The Nut Job
Movie • 2014
Mole (voice)
The Improv: 60 and Still Standing
Movie • 2023
Self
Achmed Saves America
Movie • 2014
Achmed / Bubba J / Jeff Dunham (voice)
Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map
Movie • 2014
Self
Jeff Dunham: I'm with Cupid
Movie • 2024
Self
Jeff Dunham: Me the People
Movie • 2022
Self
A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise
Movie • 2012
Jimbo (voice)
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
Movie • 2015
Self
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Movie • 2017
Mole (voice)
Delta Farce
Movie • 2007
Amazing Ken
Jeff Dunham - Election 2024 - Biden vs. Trump How Did We Get Here... Again
Movie • 2024
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Movie • 2017
Farmer (voice)
Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer
Movie • 2018
Clyde / Peanutbutter (voice)
Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster
Movie • 2017
Self
Gnome Alone
Movie • 2017
Quicksilver (voice)
Jeff Dunham: Beside Himself
Movie • 2019
Self
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Movie • 2012
Schmatko / Conductor (voice)
Jeff Dunham's Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special
Movie • 2020
Jeff Dunham: Talking Heads
Movie • 2019
Self
Jeff Dunham's Scrooged-Up Holiday Special
Movie • 2024
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Rick Wayne / Pumpkin
Comedy Central Presents
TV • 1998
Self
The Jay Leno Show
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Premium Blend
TV • 1997
Hot Country Nights
TV • 1991
Ventriloquist
Live at Gotham
TV • 2006
Self - Host
The Masked Singer
TV • 2019
Pi-Rat
The Masked Singer
TV • 2019
Pi-Rat (archive footage)
The Jeff Dunham Show
TV • 2009
Sonny with a Chance
TV • 2009
Jeff / Walter
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Hell's Kitchen
TV • 2005
Self - Restaurant Patron
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
America's Got Talent
TV • 2006
Himself
Angie Tribeca
TV • 2016
Fisher Price
Celebrity Family Feud
TV • 2015
Self
Biography: Comedy Icons
TV • 2019
Biography: Comedy Icons
TV • 2019
Self
Halloween Baking Championship
TV • 2015
Self - Host
Jay Leno's Garage
TV • 2015
Self
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
TV • 2007
Self
She Spies
TV • 2002
Elvis Presley Ventriloquist
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
TV • 2019
Jeff Dunham / Walter (voice)
Ellen
TV • 1994
Starky
One on One
TV • 2001
Benny / Kenny
Hollywood Squares
TV • 2025
Self
The Hunting Party
TV • 2025
Jeff Dudley