ventrilloquism isn't funny
nothing about this thread or him is funny




at all


again



please stop giving this guy money

10/1/2011 7:31:25 PM

paging carlos mencia

10/1/2011 7:32:13 PM

Silence... I kill you!

10/1/2011 7:34:10 PM

My parents beg to differ

10/1/2011 7:34:31 PM

My uncle LOVES Jeff Dunham.

10/1/2011 7:44:35 PM

if you enjoy racism, Jeff Dunham is very funny.

10/1/2011 7:57:58 PM

^ most people do. That's why Dave Chappelle was so popular.

10/1/2011 8:05:22 PM

Now this is a thread I can get behind.

10/1/2011 8:10:04 PM

The OP makes sense and is true.

10/1/2011 8:13:37 PM

i have noticed that baby boomers LOVE jeff dunham


younger generations not so much

10/1/2011 8:32:08 PM

He's the worst "comedian" I've ever seen.

10/1/2011 9:35:31 PM

idk i've seen worse. i think the old guy is kinda funny. and the dead terrorist (im going to hell)

but the rest are just annoying. i'd give him a 4 out of 10

10/1/2011 10:41:34 PM

I agree with ddk, he gets about a 4 on a 1-10 scale. Also, his material is so played out. If you're gonna try to be funny, come up with some new shit every once in a while.

10/1/2011 10:49:03 PM

I approve of this thread

10/1/2011 11:51:58 PM

I haven't gone out of my way to see his act, but you have to give a guy credit for making money doing ventriloquism in this day in age.

10/2/2011 12:20:07 AM

ventriloquism is fine, and i'm sure he's a good guy. it's just that he's not funny.

10/2/2011 12:32:53 AM

Quote :

"“If you take away the puppets and close your eyes, there’s not really that many jokes there. He’s not a comic. He’s a ventriloquist. He’s got a great gift, and his gift is that he makes stuff talk and he keeps his mouth pretty much closed when he does it.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/01ventriloquist-t.html?pagewanted=all

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 12:59 AM. Reason : ]

10/2/2011 12:47:49 AM

Quote :

"It was an odd kind of diversity: the crowd at the Prairie Capital was almost entirely white, but other than that, I was hard pressed to find a phrase to describe even a majority. Maybe “not thin.”"

Quote :

"He defends himself by noting that he tries to insult all races and ethnicities equally, and ultimately seems to treat jokes about all Indians being customer-service operators or all black people drinking malt liquor not all that differently from jokes involving other well-worn comedic tropes — like all wives being annoying nags or Florida being way too humid. Dunham does concede that he’s extra-sensitive to one of his largest constituencies: the conservative “country crowd.” “That’s why I don’t pick on basic Christian-values stuff,” he told me. “Well, I also don’t like to, because that’s the way I was brought up.” He then stopped himself short and said: “Oh, boy. I’m walking into something here.” Dunham started to explain — as if realizing it for the first time — that this would appear to make the jokes he does about Islam with Achmed “hypocritical.”"

Yea, this guy is a prick. "Oh, I insult everyone equally.... except my audience."

10/2/2011 8:54:58 AM

SIGNED!!!

My Louis C.K. tickets came, I'm so fucking excited I could burst

10/2/2011 9:03:25 AM

it's not fair to try to compare him to a louis CK, dave chapelle, etc... he is a more wholesome family entertainer. I'm not saying I would pay to see him, but he certainly is good for the audience he draws, and yall are acting like he is stealing your wellfare checks for it

10/2/2011 9:37:38 AM

Most comedians like that group him with more family friendly acts such as Foxworthy and others anyhow. Its a different kind of comedy. I'll be honest, I like some of Dunham's stuff. I would certainly not say he is a favorite though. Shit, I am much more a Louis C.K fan, or enjoy Patrice O'Neal, Vos, Jim Norton, Chapelle, Jay Mohr, or any of the other cruder comedians. But if I want to watch something with my young children, Jeff is more age appropriate and "safer". He isn't hilarious, but I think its disengenuous to say he is not funny.

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 9:45 AM. Reason : ]

10/2/2011 9:43:09 AM

Quote :

"ventrilloquism isn't funny"

I see your claim, and raise you an Otto & George

10/2/2011 10:48:00 AM

Nina Conti

http://youtu.be/bqM5uVd4lT8

10/2/2011 11:18:23 AM

the problem is that in addition to not being funny, he's not even a good ventriloquist.

10/2/2011 12:10:57 PM

who is the fat, hispanic guy they just gave a show to? That looks fucking terrible, it might last a few episodes. There are so many terrible comedians out there, and comedy central just gives out shows left and right.

10/2/2011 12:51:55 PM

Quote :

"ultimately seems to treat jokes about all Indians being customer-service operators or all black people drinking malt liquor not all that differently from jokes involving other well-worn comedic tropes — like all wives being annoying nags or Florida being way too humid."

see that is the worst part. he isnt even racist, he is just unoriginal and cliched.

10/2/2011 12:55:14 PM

Quote :

"he is a more wholesome family entertainer."

ya, for wasps

Quote :

"But if I want to watch something with my young children, Jeff is more age appropriate and "safer"."

good idea, teach em to be racist as young as possible

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM. Reason : .]

10/2/2011 12:56:40 PM

Quote :

"Dunham started to explain — as if realizing it for the first time — that this would appear to make [him] “hypocritical.”""

I live to see this moment on people's faces.

10/2/2011 12:59:06 PM

I would like to commend merbig's troll in this thread and i'm deeply saddended that noone took the bait

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

10/2/2011 4:00:11 PM

Quote :

"Its a different kind of comedy."

Is there a sub-genre of comedy, called "not comedy" or something?

10/3/2011 4:56:20 AM

I don't begrudge him understanding his audience and deciding to cater to it.

I applaud him for selling out arenas doing a parlor trick that's made to be seen from about 30 feet away at most.

He's still not funny.

10/3/2011 6:23:06 AM

Eh, I find him amusing. I don't think he is the funniest guy ever, but I enjoy his stuff. Sometimes its just hard to find clean comedy. I don't know if its part of getting older, having kids, or what but I just don't enjoy comedy acts anymore where cursing is used as an adjective every other sentence.

10/3/2011 7:55:53 AM

I would like to say that most comedians that become UBER popular are not funny.

Its not because i'm some sort of comedian hipster, its because by the time everyone knows about them... they're already out of jokes and should retire... but nope some people just like to hear the same shit over and over and over again...

10/3/2011 8:50:14 AM

^^ I'd rather have kids hear profanity than learn racial stereotypes.

10/3/2011 9:32:01 AM

This guy is horrible.

10/3/2011 9:54:34 AM

Lots of





ITT

[Edited on October 3, 2011 at 10:09 AM. Reason : ]

10/3/2011 10:07:30 AM

In my book, ventriloquists are dead even with mimes, and both are at the very bottom of the hierarchy of entertainment professions.

10/3/2011 10:10:37 AM

Quote :

"Sometimes its just hard to find clean comedy."

Brian Regan. Jim Gaffigan. Jerry Seinfeld. Old Bill Cosby, Albert Brooks, and Steve Martin albums.

just because you want clean comedy doesn't mean you have to accept bad/unfunny comedy.

10/3/2011 11:55:20 AM

the puppet with the frizzy hair is my favorite

10/3/2011 12:06:07 PM

Quote :

"Nice effort Brad, but let's remember our performance hierarchy: legitimate theatre, musical theatre, stand-up, ventriloquism, magic, mime"

10/3/2011 12:07:51 PM

Not a fan

10/3/2011 12:08:56 PM

I found him occasionally amusing at best, the time I was forced to watch him.

10/3/2011 1:04:57 PM

Jeff Dunham is still not funny.

10/30/2011 7:36:30 PM

Quote :

"Jeff Dunham is still not funny."

10/30/2011 7:42:48 PM

Jeff Dunham is still not funny.

10/30/2011 7:59:54 PM

I still can't believe people are calling this guy wholesome as well. For the record standup Bill Cosby before the Cosby show was not wholesome either.

10/31/2011 7:54:40 AM

^seriously just because its not profane doesn't mean is appropriate

10/31/2011 10:17:28 AM

Things that are appropriate are rarely funny.

10/31/2011 10:45:14 AM

yes- lack of profanity does not automatically mean child friendly, but if you think he is inappropriate for kids, well then I totally have to disagree and I think you need to pull the stick out of your ass

he is family friendly, and is entertaining. I still stand by my first post in this thread:

Quote :

"it's not fair to try to compare him to a louis CK, dave chapelle, etc... he is a more wholesome family entertainer. I'm not saying I would pay to see him, but he certainly is good for the audience he draws, and yall are acting like he is stealing your wellfare checks for it"

I also like what Nighthawk had to say

Quote :

"Most comedians like that group him with more family friendly acts such as Foxworthy and others anyhow. Its a different kind of comedy. I'll be honest, I like some of Dunham's stuff. I would certainly not say he is a favorite though. Shit, I am much more a Louis C.K fan, or enjoy Patrice O'Neal, Vos, Jim Norton, Chapelle, Jay Mohr, or any of the other cruder comedians. But if I want to watch something with my young children, Jeff is more age appropriate and "safer". He isn't hilarious, but I think its disengenuous to say he is not funny."

10/31/2011 10:50:32 AM

Quote :

"Things that are appropriate are rarely funny."

Maybe but the ultimate sin in comedy is to be offensive and not funny. The thing is Jeff Dunham is not funny so some of the stuff he does, even though not to the extremes others are just sound crass even if it appears fairly tame.



[Edited on October 31, 2011 at 11:03 AM. Reason : he's not funny ergo he can't pull off this shit.]

10/31/2011 11:00:59 AM