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Career Career beginnings and move to Los Angeles Дunham began performing for audiences as a teenager, in various venues such as school, church, and during his job at Six Flags. The Vent Haven Museum devotes a section to Dunham, alongside SeГ±or Wences and his idol, Edgar Bergen.

The organizers of the ConVENTion eventually declared Dunham a 'retired champion', ineligible from entering any more competitions, as other attendees were too intimidated to compete against him. Dunham has missed only one ConVENTion since then, in 1977. When Dunham was in the sixth grade, he began attending the Vent Haven ConVENTion in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, an annual international meeting of ventriloquists that includes competitions, where he met Jimmy Nelson in person. Dunham explains that as an only child, he enjoyed being alone, likening his solitude to a 'warm blanket' with which he could explore his own thoughts and ideas, which prepared him for the solitude of living alone when he later moved to Los Angeles as a struggling comedian. Dunham began practicing for hours in front of a mirror, studying the routines of Edgar Bergen, and the how-to record Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism, finding ventriloquism to be a learned skill, similar to juggling, that anyone with a normal speaking voice can acquire.

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By the fourth grade, Dunham decided he not only wanted to be a professional ventriloquist, but the best one ever. The next day he checked out a how-to book on ventriloquism from the library, and explained in 2011 that he still had it, remarking that he was 'a thief in the third grade'. He began ventriloquism in 1970 at age eight, when his parents gave him a Mortimer Snerd dummy for Christmas, and an accompanying how-to album. When he was three months old he was adopted by real estate appraiser Howard Dunham, and his homemaker wife Joyce, who raised him in a devoutly Presbyterian household in a rich Dallas neighborhood as an only child. 2.3 Finding stardom: Dunham's first Comedy Central specialsДunham was born in Dallas, Texas on April 18, 1962.2.1 Career beginnings and move to Los Angeles.

ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, and reported that he was one of the highest-earning comics from June 2008 to June 2009, earning approximately $30 million during that period. A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with its DVD going quadruple platinum (selling over 400,000) in its first two weeks. As of March 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional $7 million in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube (his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity is the ninth most watched YouTube video). Дunham has been called 'America's favorite comedian' by, and according to the concert industry publication Pollstar, he is the top-grossing standup act in North America, and is among the most successful acts in Europe as well. Describing his characters, Time observes, 'All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered.' Dunham has been credited with reviving ventriloquism, and doing more to promote the art form than anyone since Edgar Bergen. His style has been described as 'a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder'.

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Dunham also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show, a series on the network in 2009. He has four specials that are shown on Comedy Central: Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special, and Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos. He has appeared on many television programs. Jeffrey 'Jeff' Dunham (born April 18, 1962) is an American ventriloquist, comedian and actor. Dunham and 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist', February 2009

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