What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I’m supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes ‘real.’ Then don’t forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There’s something more ‘real’ and charming when the characters aren’t perfect. It’s the difference between anything that’s built by a computer and machine versus the same thing being made by hand. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
I’ll come up with an idea for a character, and I’ll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it – that it’s really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up – you could ask a question and then answer it. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
It’s a survival thing. I don’t do anything to be artistic or just because I like it. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I’m hooked up differently. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at – that all ages and demographics could laugh at. Jeff Dunham Read Quote
