You Asked For It America, And Now You Are Going To Get It
Your comedian, Jeff Dunham, made 19 million dollars last year in ticket sales. His Christmas special was the most watched program in Comedy Central's history. Is that his fault? No. He just showed up with a bag of puppets and a heart full of racism. It is our fault. We did this. And now that we've proven it's lucrative, we're going to be forced to keep doing it, back and forth forever. From Variety:
After his Christmas special became the most watched show in Comedy Central history, ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has signed an all-encompassing deal with the cable net that includes a series order, another standup special, a DVD release and merchandising.Comedy Central has ordered six episodes of a new series starring the puppet-toting comic with plans to start production this summer and air the show early next year.
A one-hour standup special is slated to air in fall 2010, around the same time that a tour and consumer products push are launched. A DVD release will also be coordinated around these events.
Perfect. JUST a TV show and another special and a like of consumer products and a DVD? WHAT ABOUT SOMETHING FOR THE SUPERFANS? 2009 and America's favorite thing in the world is a racist ventriloquist. Congratulations everyone. It's only a matter of time now before Larry the Cable Guy gets elected to public office, and farts become actual currency. Now let's go find some witches and throw them in the lake!
Posted by Gabe at 4:30 PM in What America Wants
Tags: Jeff Dunham
Say what you want, but when that dead terrorist says "I KEEL YOU" an angel gets its wings.
And by angel I mean infant, and by gets its wings I mean devoured by flames.
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nice to know real talent is being rewarded.
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A series? Great, and I was happy that I wouldn't have to see any more ads for Mind of Mencia.
It seems like Comedy Central has been creating a lot of new shows recently. Why don't they just bring back Stella? or at least air old episodes once in a while. They should do that with a lot of their old underappreciated-in-their-time but now considered classic shows.
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Yep, we did it America. We are now the armpit of the world.
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Thanks for ruining my happiness, DownerGum. I just got into my first-choice college (UConn, for those who wonder) and now you've ruined everything!
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I still can't tell if you're being ironic.
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"For those who wonder" should be your tipoff.
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am I missing something?
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but think of all the drinking games you and your new college friends will be able to make up. i'll start you off: drink every time you feel awkward because you are watching the show with your jordanian roomate.
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So that guy is supposed to make me...laugh?
Is his audience under the effects of some gas or something?
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meanwhile like 30 people will go see John Mulaney.
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CHRIST! 85 Million views? How are the morons who think this shit is funny able to operate computers? Here is a sampling of one of the comments:
"I Fricking-est? Dide? I have so many questions and concerns about this Jeff Dunham phenomenon that has apparently swept our once-great nation. :(
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I dislike Jeff Dunham, but it's not because he has a racist routine.
It's because he has a racist routine that isn't even fucking funny. Come on, racism is like the easiest thing to pull off.
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I've got a new idea for a Jeff Dunham puppet. I call him Fireworks Boy.
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seriously?
he's not funny. that goes without saying.
and he's not even a very good ventriloquist!
suicide is looking like the only way out. please just let me die in peace.
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I want to see how long he can stretch the fact that his primary joke is drawing out his e's (as in stee-ck and kee-l). If the show last more than a season, I predict brilliant brilliant stuff.
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My cousin is obsessed with this guy. I never understood it...
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Even shitty comedians like Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook can make me, if only for a second, to lift my scowl of contempt and smile at occasionally during their routine. I mean, it is their job to make people laugh. But Jeff Dunham? Nothing. I can't even force myself to smile while his stupid fucking face is on the tube because he's that bad. What the hell happened to you Comedy Central? You created The Chappelle Show, Stella, The Sarah Silverman Program, Dog Bites Man, South Park, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. What the fuck are you thinking signing on with this ass? You used to have a higher standard for comedy, and now I feel like I don't even know you anymore.
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I hope you're just being sarcastic about the racism part. Jeff Dunham is about as funny as dirt, but racist? Take the stick out of your ass.
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I get what you're saying. Jeff Dunham himself doesn't have a racist bone in his body; his routine could gain the official Good Housekeeping Lack of Racism Seal of Approval if it filled out the application properly.
Rather, through his virtuosic puppetry (yes) and "politically incorrect" but completely unfunny "jokes," he dog-whistles to his audience's racism just enough to achieve HUGE inexplicable-save-for-the-audience's-latent-racism LAFFS & millions upon millions of dollars. Which is way fucking worse, in that ignorance is not an excuse.
Jeff Dunham is the Gov. George Wallace of comedy. He's only "not a racist" in the academic sense.
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I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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I'm so ashamed. Where can I turn in my official Member of America card?
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the simpletons need this so they can lift their one-liners and casually insert them at the appropriate times. yeah baby!
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True greatness comes at the expense of an exponential amount of shitty, so-called talent in all types of entertainment.
In my country, for every Arcade Fire we produce, there is a Nickelback, Simple Plan and B44.
Concurrently, for every David Cross, there is a Jeff Dunham, Dane Cook and Kathy Griffin.
It's all science.
or math.
you get the point.
Nothing is fucked here dude.
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vomit. the only show (for grown-ups) that should ever exist that includes puppets was Greg the Bunny.
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I don't get it...a series? Are they going to create some fictional town for all his characters to "come to life" in? His whole shtick is he's a VENTRILOQUIST! Will he just walk around on camera,hand up each puppets ass, pretending like he's not there??
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The problem isn't the fact that he's racist, or that he panders to his core audience's Fox News watching, suburban soccer kids, white families' passive-aggressive racism.
It's that he's racist AND not funny and, that's about the worst thing you can be.
For every Sarah Silverman, there's a Carlos Mencia or Jeff Dunham.
His material is pandering, at best. To the popular "accepted racism" that comes with wars or current political issues. Illegal aliens, the war on terror.
The festering resentment his typical audience cultivates after watching the news each night and on the golf course every weekend.
Just like Toby Keith producing albums "dedicated" to dead soldiers. Jeff is a semi-topical hack trying to make money the easiest way possible.
You'll never go broke underestimating the American public.
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