variety.com
Dunham's main wrinkle appears to be that the dummies have been updated for a red-state audience, from the curmudgeonly Walter -- who gripes "You're on TV. There's a black guy in the White House" as a sign the world's going to hell -- to Achmed the dead terrorist, who gets the audience to chant "I kill you" along with him.
... Then again, Dunham's fans need to laugh, too, and for Comedy Central, tapping into that eager audience -- even if some of them have sawdust-filled heads -- qualifies as a no-brainer.
hollywoodoutbreak.com Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that ventriloquist JEFF DUNHAM is, hands down, one of the most popular stand-up acts in the world.
bostonherald.com Has doing a character such as Achmed gotten him into any trouble? “I hope not. I make a point in every show for Achmed to say he’s not Muslim. He says, ‘Look at my butt. It says, “Made in China,” ’ Dunham said.
The problem with the show isn’t that it’s a bad showcase for Dunham, but that it emphasizes just how stale and limited his act is. Critics of Dunham have focused on the idea that a lot of his humor is borderline racist, and watching Dunham clips on YouTube, it’s not hard to see where they’re coming from: Achmed (who is essentially a skeleton with googly eyes and a turban) is a crude Middle Eastern caricature, and other characters are equally reductive and offensive. There’s a Mexican puppet named Jose Jalapeño, and past Dunham specials have featured an African-American pimp called Sweet Daddy D, although he’s not in the description released for the new show, or the first episode.
I am thinking if the Left hate the guy he must be funny- LoL!
Good grief...these reviewers would need a tractor to get a needle out of their butt.
Airdate: 9-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 (Comedy Central)
Achmed cracks me up!
I’m guessing these same reviewers aren’t big fans of Trey Parker and Matt Stone either.
Jose Jalapeno isn’t Mexican,he’s Puerto Rican.
[Walter’s response to the writer Randee Dawn]: “Dumbass.”
Hey Randee Dawn, Jeff Dunham is listed as the #3 comedian, making:
3) Jeff Dunham, Estimated Earnings: $30 million
How well is your job paying you to complain about his success?
Probably shortly after they take care of that pesky free speech problem.
C’mon. “Randee Dawn” has got to be a stage name at Hooker a Go-Go.
but nothing in the article about Walter, the angry, bald white guy so I guess that’s ok..
My two messages to the guy that wrote this drivel..
1. Dunham is hilarious, and 2) “Lighten up, Francis”
(NOT directed at the FReeper who posted this, but the idiot that wrote it)
He was in Columbia about a week and half ago.
Man...I was just laughing so hard.
..and Dunham made some not-so-politically-correct remarks about Obama and the crowd loved it!
His character Walter the old cranky guy is my favorite. Walter looks like Joe Biden.
One timely bump.
Airdate: 9-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 (Comedy Central)
The Jeff Dunham Show premieres tonight at 9 PM eastern!
If it's as politically incorrect as his specials are, it will be awesome!
My favorite is 'Achmed the Terrorist'!
“I keel you!”
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/tv/blogs/tv-buzz-blog.aspx?blog=1746&feat=1323368
In this review the writer manages to get in a slam on Rush Limbaugh.
It’s funny enough to watch.
Yes - it’s a bit racist and cheap - but every taliban suicide bomber is also a human beeing (or was ...) and therefore has the right to be ridiculed to the bone.
Jalapeno isn’t really funny so it can’t hurt to much and peanut - well - is realy quite funny but has no real potential to harm anybody (that doesn’t happen to have typhus).