ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
A ventriloquist/comedian with a variety of dummies/puppets including Peanut (a purple alien sporting a tuft of green hair and wearing only one shoe), Walter (a grumpy old man), José Jalapeño-on-a-Stick (a jalapeño pepper with a mustache), Bubba J. (a hayseed/redneck similar to Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd), Sweet Daddy D (an African American pimp), and Achmed the Dead Terrorist (a skeleton with a beard and wearing a turban). Like most comic ventriloquists, Dunham plays straight-man to the dummies. This allows him to make comments which probably would not be acceptable if he said them himself. Here he is with two of his characters: Peanut and Walter.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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