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A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

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Jeff Dunham
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 18
Actor
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Ventriloquist
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Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.
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The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
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I'm a geek to the bone.
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Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
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I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.
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I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.
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I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
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If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
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When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.
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Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
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You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.
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I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'
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I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
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I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.
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We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?
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When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.
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There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.
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There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.
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But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.
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In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
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