The Jeff Dunham Show Is The Worst Thing In The Entire World
Before I talk about last night's premiere of The Jeff Dunham Show on Comedy Central, I would first like to issue a couple of apologies. I'm sorry, Jay Leno, I was wrong. Your comedy is hackneyed, aggressively middlebrow, toothless, and focuses way too much on your expensive car collection, and your exit from the Tonight Show only to reclaim the 10PM slot was obnoxious. But you are the Louis C.K. of late night with the manners of Princess Grace compared to Jeff Dunham. And I'm sorry, Seth MacFarlane, I was wrong. Your TV shows are stupid, repetitive, poorly written, and insufferably scatalogical, and you yourself seem to be excessively arrogant and self-congratulatory, with terrible taste in leather jackets and hand tanning. But you are the thinking man's (pre-Soon-Yi) Woody Allen, blazing Mark Twainian paths of comedic invention compared to Jeff Dunham and his horror show of backwoods racist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-semitic, shithead puppets.
If I had to sum up my feelings and reactions to The Jeff Dunham Show in a single sentence it would be FUCK THIS SHOW IN THE FACE UNTIL IT DIES. But I don't have to sum up my feelings and reactions to The Jeff Dunham Show in a single sentence. I can take as many sentences as I like. Here are some of them:
The Jeff Dunham Show is both hateful and hatefully unfunny. It features Jeff Dunham's classic ventriloquism act taken out into the real world. Here is the very first segment of the show's very first episode:
OK, so just to be clear, we've got a racist snipe at Barack Obama being in the White House followed by an extended homophobic riff, carried out in front of an actual homosexual human being's face. Which is, admittedly, the amazing thing about this show. When it opens, Dunham explains that his fans have seen him on TV or in live concert talking about the experiences that he and his puppets have, but never actually seeing them in the midst of those experiences. And there is a huge difference between Jeff Dunham standing in front of a sympathetic audience spewing his vile, projected hate speech (look at how he can say the worst fucking things without moving his lips!) but it's a somehow even WORSE experience to watch him stand behind a black man at a gun range with a stupid fucking redneck puppet on his hand and ask "are you practicing to buy drugs?" Why did that man not turn around and shoot him in the face? Mysteries are all around us.
FUCK YOU, JEFF DUNHAM!
Here is the the thing about Jeff Dunham's act: it is disgusting and it is cowardice. It is disgusting because the racism and homophobia and misogyny and anti-semitism that he expounds is never funny, nor does it ever have any kind of point to it other than to express a genuine worldview, which is that niggers and faggots and women and kikes are to be feared and insulted. It is cowardice because Jeff Dunham has always hidden behind the intellectually bankrupt argument that the terrible things being said are the thoughts of his characters, not him. Right. Well, first of all, Jeff Dunham, you are not even that good of a ventriloquist. We can see your stupid mouth saying the things you're supposedly not saying. And as if puppets themselves weren't an old-enough-fashioned throwback themselves (people still like this? In 2009?), this kind of moral disingenuousness towards your own despicable behavior is some straight up George W. Bush caliber bullshit. But what's so fascinating about The Jeff Dunham Show is how bold Jeff Dunham is in bolstering and supporting the vileness of his puppets. He never once corrects them or suggests that what they're saying is inappropriate or even contrary to what he, the human being, thinks. He laughs at what they say. He encourages them to go on with their hate speech. And if you go back to that scene in the gay therapist's office, the homophobic puppet has his mouth open, yes, but Jeff Dunham looks just as shocked and upset. "Did you know?" the puppet asks. "No," Jeff Dunham says, his voice low and his face drawn, as if he too has somehow been tricked into being in the same room with a homo.
THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING WORST DUDE IN THE WORLD, THIS GUY!
Of course, the most depressing reality of Jeff Dunham is how insanely popular he is. It's barely even his fault at this point. If it's broke, but it makes you millions of dollars a year, why fix it? Jeff Dunham can make his puppets say racist things alone in his bedroom all he wants, America is the one who actually made him famous. This show will probably be a huge success for Comedy Central. Whatever. Just another thing that we will have to explain to our grandchildren. "Sorry about how we live underwater now, and sorry that anyone ever found Jeff Dunham even remotely amusing." The truth is that Comedy Central should be ashamed of itself for airing this show. Jeff Dunham is an afterthought compared to the dangerous legitimacy that the cable network is providing for his ideas, or the suggestion that what he's doing is even comedy in the first place. Because it's not. Just like spraying people with firehoses before setting attack dogs on them is not treating them as equals.
The only hope I can find in this whole mess is the fact that Jeff Dunham is hugely successful and finally got his own show, and the best celebrity guest he could find was Brook Hogan.
Yikes! Well played, Brooke. Taking your career to the next level, I'm sure.
But seriously, I'm actually hurt as a human being that this show exists. Oh well. I've been hurt before. But fuck Jeff Dunham. And fuck Comedy Central. There isn't a jail big enough.
Posted by Gabe at 12:52 PM in Hate-Watching
Tags: Assholes | Brooke Hogan | Homophobia | Jeff Dunham | Misogyny | Puppets | Racism | The Jeff Dunham Show
silence, gabe! i keeeeel you!
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i'd also like to respond to my own post with the note that i fucking thing this guy is the antichrist. my ex-wife made me watch his christmas special. i wanted to murder someone while she laughed her ass off. maybe that's why she's my ex...
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plus, think not thing.
this thread is MINE.
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.......
So is it ok if I like Entourage now?
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This helps explain Dave Chapelle's abrupt exit from Comedy Central and validates every problem he said he had with them..
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I dunno dude. This sucks, but did you ever see Mind of Mencia?
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The only show I would ever watch with a ventriloquist.
Oh, and Freaks and Geeks.
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"It Ain't Easy Being White.
It Ain't Easy Being Brown.
All This Pressure To Be Bright.
I Got Children All Over Town."
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So, Jeff Dunham is GOB, basically. Plus a few more puppets.
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I take that back, Jeff Dunham is much worse.
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that's right Jeff DUMBham is worse, Franklin is for breaking down racial tension and occasionally administering chloroform, whilst Jeff Dunham is for making the world an awful place.
Also GOB is considerably better at not moving his lips.
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We don't want no part of your dumb ass Comedy Central Show, ya freak bitch!
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He going to be guest-starring in an upcoming episode of 30 Rock as a potential new cast-member for TGS.
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you have GOT to be fucking kidding me.COME ON.
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It's unfortunately true (link). Looks like it's the next episode. But Betty White will be there!
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I can only hope that it is a trap for Betty White to exact revenge on behalf of all humanity.
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I wonder how Tina Fey got suckered into this? She's smart and aware enough to know this guy is radioactive. UNLESS the episode is how they find someone dumber than Tracy Jordan...
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No.
No, no, no.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
:(
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I down-voted you, not because you deserved it, because of that morsel of horrible news. I hope we can get through this. On the other hand, what is 30 Rock thinking? They must need the ratings??
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I guess there is going to a puppet murder. You know how you can't spell puppetslaughter without laughter! I trust 30 Rock, they haven't failed me so far. Tina and company, take me down into the crevasse. Sometimes you have to go down to get back up.
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:)
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Ha, yeah. I'm going to feel pretty icky until Lorne Michaels comes to my house and holds my hand, looks me in the eye and says, "I'm the bastard that paid for this to happen, not you. Here. Here's a jillion dollars."
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Hooray! I am glad there is now an outlet for my long-simmering Jeff Dunham rage! FUCKING PUPPETS GEARED TOWARD ADULTS AS NON-KITSCH?! REALLY!!
And I am amazed and shocked and nauseated by how many of my otherwise intelligent and good-humored friends have recommended Achmed the Dead Terrorist to me on YouTube. "You do know there are people who are actually funny that do stand-up comedy," I would try to say. "Eddie Izzard, Jim Gaffigan, and Dave Chappelle are very talented and funny and do excellent stand-up. Would you like to hear about funny people who are actually funny when they do stand-up?" But they would be onto quoting Jeff Dunham and not listening to me, and I would die a little more inside.
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It can be done correctly. But yes, Jeff Dunham is the worst - especially considering how many bests are out there.
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I'd like to throw out a memory-jogger of GREG THE BUNNY here. Not to everyone's liking, and seriously hampered by Seth Green, but the puppets were hilarious.
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I love it when Gabe says things like "Mysteries are all around us."
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You mad!
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Wow, who wrote this script, Tom Cruise? Actually, it makes sense, Cruise hides his *alleged* homosexuality through homophobia, and him moving onto racism must mean he's actually (dun dun duuun!)... black!
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I'm in love with your icon. I wasn't even sure anyone else remembered Clone High. You are my hero.
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Thank you for the nice reply, Wesley
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It's not up to us, it's up to the little guys
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0RrK5qJ-k
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I'm afraid to admit that there was a point in time where I thought that Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham and Carlos Mencia were funny, but in my defense I thought Jeff Dunham's first special was a fever dream.
Nowadays my main hope in life is that I meet the three of them in an elevator, and that I have a shotgun.
NO JURY WILL CONVICT ME.
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That's because Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham, and Carlos Mencia were funny... but that's in the past.
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Man, I don't know about that.
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Actually, the weird thing about that is, all of them actually were funny at one point. And it was the same point: the time of their first Comedy Central specials. Jeff Dunham's first special is STILL funny to me, and not nearly as offensive as this. When I saw Carlos Mencia's special, I thought his humor was kind-spirited and his conclusion was inspiring (no, really). And Dane Cook's special was... not annoying? Ok, so I'm not sure about Dane Cook, but those other two actually were funny, believe it or not. But they quickly turned into monsters. Hideous, massive, fire-breathing, racist monsters.
Conclusion: Fame makes you an asshole.
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I'm kind of the opposite. I think Mencia and Dunham were always awful and Cook was less obnoxious when he started out. Still awful, don't get me wrong, but he really did get worse with fame. Dunham and Mencia have always been racist; I remember reading Dunham's wikipedia and his defense for his comedy is all, "I'm a Texan, y'all." And as a Texan myself, that hurts. Because I'm a Texan and not a racist, homophobic jackass.
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brother, I understand your pain. the hardest thing in the world to be is a texan outside of texas, because most people automatically take the worst examples of texans and paint the whole state with it. i have no solutions for you, but you're always welcome out here in california.
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Try being from Alabama living in NYC. Not saying Texans don't have a beef too or that we've got it worse. But the only things yankees know about my home state is Sweet Home Alabama and racism. So many times people would be shocked I was from Alabama because I wasn't a knuckle dragging xenophobic, racist, gay-basher. We Are Not Like That!!!!! The only thing worse than that were other Alabama ex-pats that trashed our home and played into the stereotype with their "I'm so glad I got out of there" shit.
Of course there's reasons we leave. Some of us want to see the world a bit more, but it is still a lovely place to live.
Also ventriloquists, mimes and jugglers are NEVER EVER funny!!!
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an ex girlfriend of mine had an older brother that LOVED this shit. we were somehow forced to hang out with him and his friends one evening, and they put one of this douchefuck's dvds on and were SERIOUSLY offended when we weren't laughing. i hope he dies in a horrific backyard balloon accident.
also a wtf... an old boss of mine thought that terrorist puppet was fucking hilarious... and this guy was from iraq, had family killed by terrorists, and he used to yell "I KEEEL YOUUUU" all the time at me. awesome jeff dunham, fuck right off.
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"... they put one of this douchefuck's dvds on and were SERIOUSLY offended when we weren't laughing."
Man, what is up with people like that, anyway? "Look, I just don't like the Barenaked Ladies, OK? It's nothing personal! It doesn't mean you can't go on liking them!"
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word life.
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Yea, its odd. A friend of mine, young girl who works as a makeup artist in NYC and has many gay friends, might self-describe as a hipster if doing so was acceptable, was telling me how funny this guy is before I had even heard of him. After seeing him on the television set a couple of times, I think Jeff Dunham is interesting, because lots of comedians these days say a lot more shockingly uncomfortable things (Daniel Tosh, for instance), but once you get keyed in to the general tone of his "humor", and then you look at his audience when they do reaction shots at the specials, you begin to place Dunham in the audience category. In other words, I think with Jeff Dunham, because he's using puppets, and reacting to the puppets, we tend to identify him more with the audience, a certain slice of America who's views many of us find (extremely) frightening. He's accepting of the puppets' worldview, which is, of course, his worldview, and in doing such, he implies acceptance on the part of the audience. Meanwhile, we're using his act as a proxy to say what we feel about a certain class/stripe/slice/whatever of Americans that we would otherwise not defame as a group since its a relatively large group, and we may feel uncomfortable rationalizing about huge groups of people. We now get to project our criticism of them on to one man's very lucrative (and that pushes it over the top) comedy act. In this way, Dunham becomes an acceptable target for sentiments that could plausibly be directed at a larger swath of the American public, whereas this is untrue of other comedians who do not dissociate themselves from their own material and then appear as though they buy into what they're saying as truth in comedy. Because they can't, they don't have puppets.
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can i pay you money to write papers for my wife who is going back to school? i know what you mean... also, i would like to direct my sentiments at much of the population... but when i think about doing that i get way too overwhelmed and my head kind of explodes a little as small pieces of my heart turn black. sometimes this place really bums me out.
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Lately when I've been getting overwhelmed by the divisions in America right now, I think about all the shit that was going on in 1968, when politicians were getting killed, troops returning home were being spit on, civil rights seemed to be tearing the country in two, riots all over the place... I would've been scared shitless every day, living in paranoia, that the whole thing was going down the shitter tomorrow. It's not yet that bad again, and I'm kind of comforted that they got through that more or less.
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i like you.
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So he opened his show with a "joke" about how Barack Obama is black? What the fuck. That's the first impression you want people to get from your show? That this world is all upside down because are president is black? You know what it is a little upside down, because that was on TV. I'm glad you brought up the fact that his mouth always moves. It always reminds me of GOB. This basically is like if GOB and Franklin got a TV show, and that is a huge mistake.
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There were THOUSANDS of people across the country plopping down in "their chair", cracking open a beer, then banging their fist on the wall behind their head screaming at their kid to turn down the ICP.. who heard those magical first words about the president, and decided to give this show a chance cuz it just makes sense to them.
I have a fever.. so I don't have to grammatically correct.. or make sense.
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Fuck off, Mom. I'll turn down deez nuts before I turn down the ICP.
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This show needs to be the worse thing on cable TV, how else is Comedy Central going to to Mind of Mencia?
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*top (bleh)
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We are up against so much.
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I don't get it. Was Dave Coulier a pseudonym?
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not sure about the show but it seems like Jason Sudekis is doing a pretty good job in that first picture. sweet chain.
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I hope we can get a decent SNL impression out of this. Sudekis would blow it away.
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I must be living in some alternative universe. Can someone please tell me what is funny here so I can get with the program. Is it saying the word "pussy"? Dane Cook, Larry the Cable guy's fart jokes, and now this guy. And these are the biggest names in comedy.
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We're gonna need a bigger Raaaaaaaandy!
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Also, I fixed your two pictures for you:
You're welcome!
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★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
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BAZOING!
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On Mystery Science Theater 3000, back in the early 90s, Joel Hodgeson used to make fun of this guy and always mention the "Woozle named Peanut" in regards to bad, hack comedians. I guess the tragic point to this story is this: MST3K is gone from this world yet this guy is more popular than ever.
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At least MST3K will live in our hearts, as opposed to Dunham, who will live in my nightmares, and hopefully get decapitated by Freddy Kruger.
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Hey guys, listen, Jeff Dunham is obviously the absolute worst and should die in a fire and raked over coals (one for every awful joke he's made), and Sarah Silverman is obviously great, but what is the difference between the two at times? Each uses a character (or characters) to voice offensive jokes (Silverman is quoted as such). I'm not trying to rile people up, but is there a line we can draw? Is it because Dunham might be giving voice to his audiences latent awfulness where as Silverman's audience is laughing at the whole meta aspect of her comedy?
HELP!
Again, it needs to be said AGAIN that Jeff Dunham is simply awful. the worst.
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Yes, that is the line.
Comedians like this do one of two things. Thing One: Say racist/homophobic/terrible things as a means of highlighting the inherent ridiculousness/awfulness of those things. Thus, when Chappelle mined race for humor, he wasn't just saying racist things. He was commenting on them. It was clear that he didn't agree with these racist things, but that instead he was acknowledging that the racist things exist, trying to make sense of them, trying to comment on them, and in the process making them hilarious.
Thing Two: Just say racist/homophobic/terrible things. Jeff Dunham is not commenting on the terrible things he says. If he wanted to, he could use his little Jalapeno puppet to mock racism towards immigrants and minorities, but he doesn't. He just makes fun of immigrants and minorities.
So yes, the line is self-awareness. The line is whether you are commenting on these horrible things, or just saying horrible things.
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Lisa Lampanelli (sp?) is an even better example than Sarah Silverman. LL spent the entire duration of her HBO special hitting every cliched stereotype joke, whether racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever. Lisa does it with a smile and apologizes occasionally (breaks character because she's trying to tell horribly wrong jokes) but in the end she thanks everyone and tells everyone they're a good sport. I don't get LL's humor either, but at least she does not use PUPPETS!
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Who would have thought that Willie and Lester would be the pinnacle of the medium? Fucking puppets...
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Everybody needs to calm the F down and stop pretending the only comedy they take in is Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Eddy Izzard and Lenny Bruce. Yeah, yeah...you're the intellectual elite comedy consumer, right? Dunham's stuff is base and his characters are racist, homophobic, etc....but are they funny? Yeah, they are.
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Nah. They really aren't.
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"I wish Gabe would shut up about Eddie Izzard." -- me, to everyone but Gabe, constantly. 1983-2012
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You forgot about Mitch Hedberg.
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I don't get the idea that we would "pretend" to enjoy certain comedy to appear intellectual. I laugh at what makes me laugh, which happens to be Bill Hicks etc. because they stimulate my mind in a humorous way. I don't laugh at what doesn't make me laugh, which happens to be crude stereotypes, jokes already done before by a thousand club stand-ups shouting and swearing for pennies, crass, divisive spiel that bring us no closer to world unity or peace and JEFF BLOODY DUNHAM.
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I agree. David Cross and Patton Oswalt are two of my favorite comics but sometimes they forgot to tell jokes and just went off on G.W. Bush. Cross was worse than Oswalt. I don't care that peple hate Bush. I understand it. He's not my favorite. But if you're going to trash him in a comedy bit, at least put in some effort and make a good joke. Will Ferrell's Bush cracks me up to no end.
So there is a big difference between what comics like Cross et al do and what Dunham does. First puppets can be funny, just not with jack ass ventriloquists. But just saying hateful things is not funny unless you take an angle on it to comment on how it is hateful and horrible. i.e. David Cross going off on the word "nigger" and why he hates all the "N-word" dodging that people do. He gets some shock value but that is not the point of the joke and it (the shock) serves the point that people are hypocritical and way too uptight about things. Or whatever. . .
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i dont particularly like any of those comedians, but i do hate jeff dunham. i hope his daughter marries a black man.
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Everybody needs to calm the F down and stop pretending the only comedy they take in is Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Eddy Izzard and Lenny Bruce. Yeah, yeah...you're the intellectual elite comedy consumer, right? Dunham's stuff is base and his characters are racist, homophobic, etc....but are they funny? Yeah, they are.
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I haven't seen the Dunham show but the 'critic' is obviously an angry, hateful dude and he lost all credibility when he bashed Seth MacFarlane.
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Thanks. That's the funniest thing anyone has ever said on this entire page/topic.
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Dude, we're all angry, hateful dudes here!
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Dude, I'm an angry, hateful El Duderino, I'm not into the whole brevity thing.
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Some of us are not dudes though. Probs more than you think, too.
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"He lost all credibility when he bashed Seth MacFarlane."
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm not being smug or sarcastic. I'm seriously Lots of Loving in my pants right now. Thank you. Thank you for that. Also, you owe me some new pants.
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credibility and seth mcfarlane. what a funny concept.
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Even in the sad, pathetic world of ventriloquism, Jeff Dunham is seen as a mouth-breathing, sell-out hack. And if you don't believe me, just ask my friend Professor T. Smarty Pants. Whad'ya say Professor?!
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You know how you can tell when one of Jeff Dunham’s jokes isn’t funny?
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No, I don’t Professor. Why don’t tell you tell all of the nice people?
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Weeeeell the easiest way to tell that one of Jeff Dunham’s jokes isn’t funny is
when his lips aren’t moving.
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You, Sir, are an imposter.
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I just happened on this last night getting in bed...the previews looked awful so I never meant to watch it...but it was on long enough to hear a TOTAL RIPOFF of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia music between segments. Did anyone else notice that?
I saw the gay therapist skit--even with my very low expectations I thought I must be missing something--apparently not?
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I wholeheartedly concur, friend.
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The "internet" is hard for me.
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This headline belongs in "Duh Afficianado" magazine.
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And who the fuck are you? A pathetic, bitching nobody. I'm guessing you post because your mom stopped listening to you and locked the basement door.
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well, DUH, that's why we're all here... posting... FOREVER.
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upvote this...FOREVER
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I'm guessing he is a fan of comedy, e.g. the reason "comedians" (and I hesitate to call him one) like Jeff Dunham get to have careers.
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Calm down, Tucker.
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LOL.
Chris, I know that you're not a regular reader of this site, and that you have posted your comment only to disappear back into the darkness, so you will probably not take part in any debate on the subject. But I do love that your counter-argument to "The Jeff Dunham Show is a dangerously unfunny half hour of unapologetic hate speech" is that I am a nobody. That may be true! But those two things are not mutually exclusive!
And for my next comment, explaining to you what "mutually exclusive" means.
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[Ed. note: This is Gabe. Sorry aynrandian, but you're banned. Remember? You violated Videogum's terms of use. Bye!]
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wat
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I'm so confused!
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Jeff Dunham is awesome because we're losers!
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wow....almost makes me miss carlos mencia...........i take that back.....
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I hate how people who rail against 'politically incorrect' humor, as they are wont to call it, ALWAYS say "oh yeah you might act like you are offended but deep down, you think this is funny but you are hiding it because you want to be offended.'
No. That is never the case. When things are just blatantly homophobic, racist, sexist, the whole trifecta, it's not that we're offended and giggling inside. It seriously is not funny. And the reason being that the aforementioned trifecta of offensiveness is just so easy and boring. All it says is "me better than those people. me smash people who are different." And that's not humorous to me because I don't share that sentiment. What one finds funny reflects how they see the world. So no, I am not clutching my pearls while secretly laughing. I see this kind of humor for what it is: easy, half-assed potshots at people who have been the butt of jokes since the beginning of history. How is that funny?
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Ugh, if this isn't already apparent, this was supposed to be a response to the trolls above.
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One of my roommates is basically like this. He says the most disgustingly racist and homophobic things and doesn't understand when I get upset. "How come you get pissed when I say stuff like this but laugh when [our other roommate] says it?" Uh, because when he says it, he's making fun of you and how ridiculous you sound. I dunno, it pisses me off and we've been getting into some pretty bad arguments about it. And the thing is, (he's Indian, by the way) one day I accidentally said something aout someone speaking Indian instead of Hindi and he called me an "fucking ignorant bastard" and was pissed at me for a few days. This was probably minutes after he was spewing terrible hate speech because he thinks it's hilarious.
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I give it a year and a half before the show fizzles for either ratings or "internal" reasons, and Dunham is shipped to Vegas to live out the rest of his years playing shows to drunk, half-full audiences who don't care at the Mirage, just like Carlos Mencia.
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i hated this show. i miss dave.
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i miss carlos mencia too. i don't care if he stole all his jokes, he made them work and he is funny.
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YIKES.
I think you meant to put braindead-humor.geocities.biz in your address bar.
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is there anything we can do to get this show off the air? like if enough of us write a letter will it make any difference? because there is nothing i want more than to bankrupt this fuck.
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This is awful, but this network also airs Secret Girlfriend, and the women in that show seem to be willingly participating. Scary stuff.
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Oh, man. Jeff Dunham... A year or so ago, my husband's coworker asked if we wanted to borrow "a really funny DVD." It was, naturally, the comedic stylings of your boy here, ol' JD. We had never heard of him, so I can honestly say I didn't know any better. We made it through about 10 minutes, tops. We discussed breaking the disc into shards and returning the case with a $20 and a note that said, "Please do not spend this money on Jeff Dunham merchandise."
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Holy shit, if you think you guys are mad now - just wait! :-)
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I will be waiting forever, in the sense that I will never watch this show.
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I have a time machine.
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Bravo, Gabe. I just had a mindgasm.
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Well there went my hopes for TWTVSOAT a Gabe has already found a winner by default.
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also, he is not a very good ventriloquist
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everyone makes mistakes, but at least I can go to sleep at night knowing I don't make a living off of my mistakes.
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i miss jokes about airplane food.
you know, i don't know a lot about comedy, but i often wonder why comedy today is so overwhelmingly based on things that are racially or sexually offensive. (i'm not talking about vulgarity, just for clarification.) just watch a comedy central roast-- even if it's a roast of a white heterosexual man (like hugh hefner) somehow a lot of the jokes end up being racist ones. usually i can rationalize the comedic effect racist jokes have on people by thinking about how laughter sometimes comes from discomfort, like we laugh in the face of something objectionable because we don't know what else to do. is that why it's such ripe territory for comedians? one of my favorite comedians is patton oswalt, and i think the only group he goes after is the kind of people who would find jeff dunham funny. he actually does a funny bit on the subtle prejudice of the middle-upper class in northern virginia, where both of us are from.
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It's "where both of we are from."
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I haven't watched the show, show the first clip you posted here, and your way off base, it like Archie Bunker humor, your laughing at the bigot because he is so clueless, and insecure yet he thinks that is how the world should be. He is a harmless grump, not a politically charged racisits, homophobe.
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"your laughing at the bigot"
See, that's the thing... I wasn't laughing at anything.
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No, this is where you're wrong. You can draw a direct comparison between the Jeff Dunham sketch where he meets the gay therapist and the All in the Family episode where Archie Bunker meets Sammy Davis Junior. In both shows, we're intended to laugh at the uncomfortable situation where a bigot is confronted with what he hates. That's where the similarities end. In the JD sketch, they drag the being-gay-is-icky jokes out and not once does a single person in the sketch sit there and say, "You are wrong. You are homophobic. You are a bigot." in a serious or funny way. The therapist isn't in on the joke. In All in the Family, Archie Bunker is the butt of all of the jokes. Sammy Davis tells him sarcastically to his face that he is a racist. The object of prejudice is the person making the joke, not the other way around.
The farthest Dunham goes in calling out the stupid "puppet" is saying that he has a "negative" attitude towards our president. Oh ha ha what is this world coming to? kind of humor. There's a wide gulf between "negative" and out and out racist.
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The therapist should get his own show. I liked that thing about disrespectful Walter was being.
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I'm surprised no one has commented about the inherent stupidity of a ventriloquist 'takin it to the streets'. Ventriloquism is a dead (resurrected thanks to this idiot?) medium and it really only makes sense on the stage. Seeing those puppets in the real world is just retarded. And this goes above and beyond the shitty material and general doucheyness of it all.
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This is the first time I've actually sat down and watched Jeff Dunham. Before, I just assumed he was some lame comedian riding the wave of mediocre. Now I seriously want to punch him in the face.
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Okay, it was tasteless and it wasn't funny, but Gabe, you sink to Dunham's level when you throw the F-bomb around so liberally in place of intelligent discourse. Not necessary, and after the first time, I began to dislike you almost as much as I dislike Dunham, even though I agree with much of what you said.
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If you think that using the word fuck is on the same level as racism, homophobia, misogyny, and anti-semitism, then I cannot help you. Because you are insane.
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She's not insane. She's trying to make a point that you should stand up and be better than Jeff Dunham is. I agree with her.
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Ugh. I am not surprised that you agree with her since you are THE SAME PERSON. Did you just discover computers?
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You LOVE those IP address checks. Marry me!
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Yeah, Gabe, stop being such a racist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-semitic ventriloquist!
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I totally concur!
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Dagne Bennet is a ventriloquist... whose puppet is Lois... just like JEFF DUNHAM... WHO IS A VENTRILOQUIST!!
MY BRAIN JUST ESPLODED
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"Dagne, the gays want my precious bodily fluids!!!"
"Oh, Lois... (shakes head, looks at audience, shrugs)"
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Now THERE'S a show I'd watch!
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Her?
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You're a Fucking idiot.
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I find Jeff Dunham hilarious, but I guess that's because I know that it's a bit, a show, and is not supposed to be taken at face value. I laugh at his comedy because he has created and is interacting with glaringly obvious stereotypes. It's not racism, racism involves hatred, fear, and superiority. Stereotypes are simply aspects of the culture that tend to play themselves out most commonly in society.
So to everyone here calling out about racism and the like? Clamoring that Jeff Dunham isn't funny? I ask to to please, think for a moment, realize not everything in the world is what it may seem on it's shallow surface, and just go watch something else.
Having said that, I do think the show itself is a bad idea based on the clip, I'd rather just have his Comedy Specials.
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Gabe and everyone that agrees with Him
YOU have to be the the most STUPID Sons abitches in WORLD ! You put down a comedian and his act because he says something about the WORST president we've EVER had. So FUCKING WHAT, He's Black .Everybody in the world knows that he's black.Hell ,we're told every single day he's the FIRST BLACK president Who Fucking CARES ? He Lies just like the White ones do.Get the Fuck Over IT. And if your Gay and didn't like what he said ,Remember You Want Equal Rights like the Straight People so YOU GOT THEM! Shut up Bitchin about getting what you wanted.HE IS A COMEDIAN. If that's how he really feels , that's his FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT SO GET THE FUCK OVER IT. And RED NECKS AINT STUPID !!!!!!!!
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AND THERE AIN't NO GAY PEOPLE AROUND NEITHER!!!11
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If you're so sensitive to rednecks and their portrayals, shouldn't you be mad at Jeff Dunham for his redneck puppet? And I think you're not understanding equal rights. As a Gay (your capitalization, not mine) I think I need to point out that I'm ready for the good parts of equal rights. If getting made fun of on a "comedy" show is all we get with them, you straights can have them back! OH WAIT! I just remembered! That isn't at all what happens when you get equal rights. That happens all the time on and off television in my everyday life every day for ever! J-Dun can make fun of me all he wants with or without his puppets, but I don't have to like it and I can tell you or anyone that I don't. I wish I didn't feel like I had to explain that. I'm going to continue being gay now.
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I'd just like to tell you that I've read a whole lot of Videogum comments and I've seen a lot of hateful ignorant opinions but this is actually the worst of them all.
I hope with all my heart that your comment is some crazy kind of sarcasm aimed at fooling us all, because if this is really your opinion, and if you really created a new account just to say that, then you are the worst and responsible for everything that is holding back humanity.
I hope this gets downvoted straight to hell.
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Being that this is typed from an internet cafe, no it's not a surprise.
It's a pity you seem to wallow in mean-spiritedness. Hope it works out for ya.
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It's worked out great for most of us!
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It's certainly working out for Jeff Dunham!
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Now I'm on the computer at the internet cafe that Lois and Dagne were using! Ew, way to leave muffin crumbs on the keyboard, ladies!!! Disgusting...
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Petepetepete, I literally just laughed my head, nose, and ass off at your comments. What I'm saying is, many internetz to you sir! And you owe me some body parts.
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Thank you, friend... we aims to please.
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Upvoting the normal, insightful Videogum commenters and downvoting the Dunham-loving trolls -- what a way to unwind after work!
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Again, I'm tardy to the party. And I'd like to point out that I fraking hate Dunham. But I'm having a hard time reconciling the insane backlash the Australian blackface "comedy troupe" suffered, when Dunham is so fraking successful. There is no difference between the racist blackface and this racist/homophobic/whatever drivel! Why is it that "we" have such a problem with the other, but seem to embrace this?
I hope you anti-obscenity folk(s) are happy. Now I look like a Battlestar Gallactica loving fool.
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You got my upvote because you used "frak". BSG (yes, I call it BSG) is a wonderful show. In fact, I'm watching it right now.
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Jeff Dunham is a good comedian! Stop whining about his genious shows!
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Dis is disingenious.
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If people put forth as much passion, time, and energy towards fixing the problems of the world as they did bitching about them, then there would not be anything to bitch about! I cannot believe that adults can get so mad overstupid, insignificant comments of a comedian, much less each other...but, yet, seem to overlook the real problems. Children go missing everyday. Some are found murdered, and some aren't found at all! Grow up, people! Because, your pettiness of today, isn't going to matter worth a damn tomorrow. If you don't like something, then change it! If you can't change it...then learn to live with it. If you don't want to learn to live with it...then become a comedian and make fun of it---while on the sidelines, people without a life bitch about your sense of humor and you continue to rake in the dough! And for those who don't like my opinion----well, opinions vary.
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So, to sum up, complaining about a comedian is pathetic, but complaining about people who complain about a comedian causes missing children to be found, and life is precious, and God, and the Bible.
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I will never understand the old "people who are bitching need to spend their time on REAL problems like murdered children" argument. It makes no sense because it's basically like saying "you aren't allowed to have YOUR opinion, but here's mine." And then proceeding to bitch and complain about something that isn't murdered children.
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If people put forth as much passion, time, and energy towards fixing the problems of the world as they did bitching about them, then there would not be anything to bitch about! I cannot believe that adults can get so mad overstupid, insignificant comments of a comedian, much less each other...but, yet, seem to overlook the real problems. Children go missing everyday. Some are found murdered, and some aren't found at all! Grow up, people! Because, your pettiness of today, isn't going to matter worth a damn tomorrow. If you don't like something, then change it! If you can't change it...then learn to live with it. If you don't want to learn to live with it...then become a comedian and make fun of it---while on the sidelines, people without a life bitch about your sense of humor and you continue to rake in the dough! And for those who don't like my opinion----well, opinions vary.
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"How dare you turn up your nose at all that perfectly good Jeff Dunham! There are starving children in Africa who would LOVE to eat that Jeff Dunham, and you just remember that, missy!"
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I would just like to add that I too do not understand the love for Jeff Dunham. When I first saw his act was available on CD I went "WHA-WHA-WHA-WHA-WHA-WHA-WHA-WHA-REALLY?!"
I did this because I am used to awesome comedy and the humor in ridiculous ideas, and through my advanced Mr. Show study courses I was led to believe that there was a huge amount of irony in listening to a ventriloquist's CD ALBUM. How do I know he's not moving his lips?!
But hey, I was also led to believe that causing destruction to the moon was also hilarious in its ridiculousness. But today? It's science fact!
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TV-14? How about TV-NO ONE BECAUSE IT'S AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE instead.
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You can't "fix" Jeff Dunham without spreading bad rep about him and convincing people to not watch. Gabe is doing what you're saying he's not. Also, anyone who is as retarded as Jeff Dunham and gets paid as much as Jeff Dunham isn't petty. The money paid to feed and clothe that little shit could go to much better things. Financing an artists' masterpiece, feeding a few struggling families, cleaning up a run down park.
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"So, to sum up, complaining about a comedian is pathetic, but complaining about people who complain about a comedian causes missing children to be found, and life is precious, and God, and the Bible."--------Come on, petepetepete...petepete...pete. You act like you want to sound intellectual. Try harder.
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You thought that was "intellectual"?
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Ohhhh Lakonislate! If you made this up, you are a genius, or a "genious" as one of our new trolls spells it. I am filling my LOLk account to the brim tonight.
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Was my comment difficult for you to understand?
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It was pretty far over my head, yeah.
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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
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Send him and his puppets to Superjail!
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Word, this post makes me so glad Tim and Eric, etc. are on Cartoon Network.
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I like Jeff Dunham too. Reading all your comments is funnier than the show was. I have an idea for all of you - DON'T watch the show. That way you won't have to put yourselves out by trashing him and something you don't like. You can all move on to bigger and better things. Bye now!
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"Bigger and better things"? I wish! This is about as good as it gets for me.
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I have an idea- DON'T READ OUR COMMENTS if you don't like them. Your logic, not mine.
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Well, of course Mencia was always racist, but he used to be better than simply saying the word "beaner" and talking about how stupid everybody is. But Jeff Dunham wasn't always so awful. In his first special especially, he was a lot more self-aware, and the humor wasn't centered on his puppets just saying things like "He's gay?" and "There's a black man in the White House!". There were actually jokes, and they were funny.
Also, I didn't see that arguement on his Wiki page, but I agree with you. That doesn't work unless he said "I am the worst kind of Texan, y'all." You have my sympathy.
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Damn you, Internet!
(That was supposed to be a reply to langford. I keep forgetting about that "preview" thing. Fucking internet.)
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Of course this horrible show was the highest rated premiere in Comedy Central's history.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010362.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565
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At least now Jon Stewart has another defense when Fox News claims The Daily Show is bias news reporting. "Hey, my show comes on after racist ventriloquism!"
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I like to think that there are vigilant Jeff Dunham supporters in internet cafes all over this great country, just waiting for the next attack so that they can take a stand.
Then I like to think of them spilling coffee in their laps.
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Jeff Dunham is as funny as my horrible case of gonorrhea. It's not the bigotry thing, because lots of comics say horrible things and none of you care. It's that he's cheesy, hackneyed, and just plain not funny. Also, PUPPETS?! That OUTFIT?!! Come on, America.
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carlos mencia, larry the cable guy and jeff dunham are currently looking for the 4th unfunny, horseman to usher in the inevitable apocalypse
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Videogum love 4eva!
Haterz can hate but they ain't gonna bring us down!
* But really Jeff Dunham makes me sick and is the worst.
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Jeff Duhnam more like (cough cough) Jeff DUMBham
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Jeff Duhnam more like (cough cough) Jeff DUMBham
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That show really pissed me off; particularly at that stupid segment basically all about homophobia. (Yeah, I'm gay. Fuck off, Dunham.)
I didn't have high expectations for this show whatsoever (moreso anything he has EVER done EVER), and I'm not surprised.
See you next week, Dunham; not that I'll be watching.
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That show really pissed me off; particularly at that stupid segment basically all about homophobia. (Yeah, I'm gay. Fuck off, Dunham.)
I didn't have high expectations for this show whatsoever (moreso anything he has EVER done EVER), and I'm not surprised.
See you next week, Dunham; not that I'll be watching.
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Agh, sorry about the double post. I'm new to videogum; I thought I had hit preview the first time. :(
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Clearly Jeff Dunham is the worst, but in the puppets' defense I doubt I'd be funny if I had a "comedian" with what looks like hair plugs hand up my ass. Because you know, how they're separate entities and all.
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I'm just happy to know I'm not the only person who thinks Dunham is one of the unfunniest "comedians" I've ever seen. It's not even so much that he and his puppets are offensive. I kinda like offensive humor, when it's done right (e.g. Louis C.K.). But I was forced to watch his Christmas special with my roommates because they said he was hilarious. The whole time I was just mad and depressed that I had to sit there and watch this tool while his audience brayed like jackasses.
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Yeah, if Micheal and Micheal have Issues gets canned for this shit then its good bye cool world.
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Also his hair makes me uneasy but I don't know why.
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I know I'm pretty late to this hate-party, but I just discovered how Jeff Dunham is getting viewers. The power recently went out in my house and fried my DVR, making it practically impossible to watch TV- it's convinced that I'm taping The Jeff Dunham Show. Every time I try to change the channel it switches back. Because sadism?
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