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Oct 23 2009 11:46 PM ET

Why is Jeff Dunham so popular? You be the critic!

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Okay, so The Jeff Dunham Show premiered this week to become the highest-rated first-episode of any show in the history of Comedy Central in the Read the full post.

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  • Bill

    Jeff has everyone mad because he made fun of terrorist and tells it the way it IS!.Now if you go against Terrorism your a RACIST!?, WHY is this?,You elected a Socialist president who condones terrorism and socialism.Soon all REAL Americans will be gone,then the Braindead Young generation who puts up with the US government telling them where to go and what to do will all be happy. Obama used the same thing as Hitler, MASS Hypnotism!,Look at those old videos of him giving speeches,Hands flailing..When he would finish the crowds would go into a frenzy!,Now they don’t know WHY they put him in.Jeff is being put down because he KNOWS the SCORE!.

    • m johnson

      Bill,it’s just history repeating itself,only not in Europe but here.No reason over 9 million Americans(who could get out of the United States)left last year.I only wish I were one of them.

    • Agnieszak

      Wow, you sir are truly an idiot.

  • Rich

    When the people shed their Hunt’s tomato thin skins and grow some hide, and learn to laugh at themselves, most anger amd hatred will cease.

  • Lee Wright

    Apples are different from pears grapes are different from cherries. A stand up comedy is differtnt that a half hour show that tells a story. Dunham is the best in the country at what he does. Who can compete with his skill one on one. Not a program of several people

  • JB

    I am so very tired of white people accusing me, a black gay man, of “political correctness”, calling me a “gottabe PC wuss” (real good, Marc Bagwell), telling me to “get a sense of humor”, etc., because I don’t want to see demeaning, stereotypcal, and insulting, images of black people, gay people and other minorities. And I’m tired of the comparisons between such entertainment and that of the likes of Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Carlos Mencia (none of which I enjoy) because while Chappelle, Rock and Mencia make offensive jokes about white people, very few white people are likely to suffer housing and employment discrimination, hate crimes, and conceptions of intellectual inferiority resulting from those comedy routines. Compare, as white person, what it costs you to be made fun of and why (historically speaking) you’re being made fun of to what it costs minorities to be made fun of. Right or wrong, there is a huge difference. That said, I wish ALL comedians would let go of the racial humor. There’s so much more to good humor than that.

  • m johnson

    I liked the comments of Thomas and Mike.I’m so tired of people bashing one another for their opinions.It’s their opinion and 1st Amendment right no matter if it’s politically incorrect. We as
    people need to stop buying into this politically incorrect stereo-
    typing that the media is pushing.
    If you haven’t noticed they are pushing their own agenda and that is “to shut you up” through brain-
    washing you and your kids.They
    want you to believe whatever they say.So stand up for you opinions and leave Dunham alone. All comedians in the past have done the same thing that Jeff is doing now.Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryer
    were extremely offensive and vulgar and always talking about P***y.But people hailed them funny and even to this day their movies
    are labeled as classics. As a matter of fact Murphy has a new one
    out right now called “Imagine that.” It’s a family movie but it’s comedy that got him there.
    Actually it was us that put him there. Humor suppose to be on the edge or subjective like Mike said,and I have seen few comedians be tasteful.But there is probably one comedian that everyone could agree on and that is Jeff Breuer.
    Check him out and stop bitching about how everyone dosen’t agree.I have a news flash for you,”They never will” so get on with life and let Jeff get on with his.

  • Christina

    I love him! He is hilarious to me. Some people might not like his comedy but it is an individual choice. I have heard some people say he is not politically correct. I have not seen a comedian that is politically correct.

  • rdhogan7713

    I’ve read the word “sheep” a lot. As in the people who watched Dunham are sheep. It seems to me the people who are criticism him are more like sheep. They don’t like him because he looks more like a high school teacher than David Cross. Dunham’s not hip, edgy, or quirky so he must be awful.

    As for stupid, people like stupid. Not because they’re stupid but because they’re tired. They’ve a tough day at work and they to turn their brains off. They don’t want to be challenged. That’s why no one watches 30 Rock.

  • Ivie

    First of all for all you haters out there trying to demean a man of his caliber, I pity you. The man is telling jokes for crying out loud. The same kind of jokes that people seem to get a laugh out of when theyre texting them and forwarding them to others. I saw him live in Allentown, PA at our fair and he is hilarious. I also own all of his dvd’s and some of the merchandise. My 3 year-old dressed up in the skeleton boy costume last year and told everyone he was Achmed. Lighten up people its just freakin comedy. Right away peope have to bring up the race card. He does jokes about others things and constantly is joking about his kids, his dogs, and things going on in the world today, so lighten up.

    • JB

      Ivie, why is that people like you want to throw around terms like “the race card” when any person of color is offended by the presentation of racial stereotypes. Who are you –or any white person– to tell people of color what they should or should not find racially offensive. When have you experienced life as anything but a white person in this country?

  • Agnieszak

    We’re supposed to be posting our opinion right? Don’t tell me to “relax and just laugh.” I’m not laughing because the guy is not freaking funny, not because I am afraid to laugh at something that’s not politically correct. I couldn’t give two cents about that. His jokes are insulting to my intelligence and totally lame. He would be brilliant if he was a middle school kid, but for a professional comedian he is just awful.
    I’m also annoyed by the thinly veiled promotions of D-list celebrities. Brooke Hogan’s new album? Good Charlotte’s new clothing line? You can shove that $90 brass knuckle necklace where the sun don’t shine. Don’t insult me by pandering to the lowest common denominator.

    • JoeFromQC

      WAH!!!!!! WAH!!!!! Then don’t WATCH!!!! Why you feel the need to spend this amount of energy on something you don’t like is unhealthy. Also, anyone who has to STATE how intelligent they are usually belies the opposite. It’s like a guy that has to say ‘trust me’.

  • I’m and Idiot

    It’s quite simple humor. Pick puppets and play off of some stereotypical humor with easy punchlines. I guess I can understand people laughing at it, but I just don’t find it clever. I couldn’t do the whole puppet part, but I feel like I could write those jokes so it’s hard to respect.

    • JoeFromQC

      HA!!! It’s so easy. That’s usually what people who don’t understand something EVERYONE else gets. BAH THAT’S STUPID.

      No, IT isn’t stupid……… But someone is……

  • Tim

    Jeff Dunham is a true hack. Why do people like Bill Hicks die young and unappreciated and we are cursed with “entertainers” like this guy?

  • Paul

    i had to make sure i wasnt alone after watching jeffs latest stand up i found none of it funny he cashed in on all his most popular puppets achmed got a half dead son FUNNY! not really and peanut got a mini jeff puppet so jeff got a mini peanut i didnt laugh not even once but i didnt change the channel because i belived it would get funny i used to think he was funny and i cant believe he drops his puppets so fast he used to have a black pimp and bubba j he hasnt used either for a while

  • Heather

    He is talented in the sense that he can manipulate up to 3 personalities at once. However, you have to consider that he barely ever talks. And that mostly his puppets do the talking. So it doesn’t take that much brain power for him to reply every so often with “oh really?” Also, his jokes are very simple and don’t take much thought. For example, why is it funny that his dead terrorist puppet says “I kill you” in a funny accent, over and over. It’s just not funny. His puns are not clever or relevant to anything that’s actually happening. Its not unreasonable to question his success.

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