Dunham’s jokes are generally outdated and predictable - when they’re even jokes at all, that is. Sells-out arenas popular.īut in the era of perpetual Trump rallies, this feels somehow less surprising than it did even five or six years ago, since the humor (and we use that word loosely here) underpinning Dunham’s act has its basis in the same simmering, race-based vitriol that frequently surfaces within gatherings of the MAGA set.Ī decade ago, Videogum posted a lengthy screed decrying the ventriloquist and his stable of “backwoods, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic” puppets, though Dunham has always brushed aside these criticisms, once telling me in a 2013 email, “I heard a great comic say once that if you aren’t offending a couple people here and there, you’re not pushing the envelope.”īut part of the issue is that Dunham’s comedy doesn’t push the envelope, instead falling lazily back on stereotypes that were already tired when Archie Bunker was still kicking his feet up in his recliner. We’re talking multiple Netflix specials popular. And not just popular for a ventriloquist. By all accounts, Jeff Dunham remains popular.
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