Jeff Dunham

Jeff Dunham Bio

Jeff Dunham is an American ventriloquist and comedian born in Dallas, Texas on April 18, 1962. Dunham started doing ventriloquism at the age of eight and decided from a young age that he was going to be a professional ventriloquist. He started performing for people as a teenager and would do television ads for different brands. Dunam went on to be in a number of other shows like Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Ellen, Comedy Central Presents, Sonny with a Chance, Hell’s Kitchen, and many others. He made his debut in a feature-length film in the movie Delta Farce. He has also done voice work for several films like The Nut Job, Smurfs: The Lost Village, Mune: Guardian of the Moon, Big Top Scooby-Doo!, From Up on Poppy Hill, and The Nut Job 2. Jeff has had six specials that run on Comedy Central and starred in The Jeff Dunham Show. In 2010 he published his autobiography titled All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and Me. He was ranked by Forbes in 2008 as the third highest paid comedian behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock.