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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 an affluent Dallas neighborhood, as an only child.

5.2 Non-recurring and retired charactersДunham was born on April 18, 1962, in Dallas, Texas.

He achieved the Guinness Book of World Records record for 'Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour' for his Spark of Insanity tour, performing in 386 venues worldwide. Dunham also does occasional acting roles. Forbes 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 the DVD selling over 400,000 copies in its first two weeks. As of November 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional $7 million in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube as of October 2009 his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity was ranked as the ninth most watched YouTube video at the time. According to the concert industry publication Pollstar, he is the top-grossing standup act in North America and among the most successful acts in Europe as well. Дunham has been called 'America's favorite comedian' by Slate. Time described his characters as ' 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 six specials that run on Comedy Central: Arguing with Myself, Spark of Insanity, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special, Controlled Chaos, Minding the Monsters, and All Over the Map. Jeffrey Douglas Dunham (born April 18, 1962) is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show and Sonny With a Chance.

Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special.

He also owns his own car, the Achmedmobile, which Bubba J blew up and had a goat 'girlfriend'. More of his past is revealed in Controlled Chaos where he had a dog with no legs that he left nameless, he didn't know the purpose of tampons and used them, he had 46 wives, and was revealed to have a son named Achmed Junior.

He, along with Walter and Peanut, are Dunham's most popular puppets.

As of June 2009, the sketch in which Dunham introduced Achmed is the fourth most watched online video ever, having amassed nearly 200 million views. When mentioning that Achmed appears to be dead because he's a skeleton, Achmed responds, ' It's a flesh wound.' When Dunham inquires as to how he died, Achmed explains his incompetence with explosives, while also casting aspersions on Dunham's sexual prowess, by saying that they both suffer from 'premature detonation.' Although he frequently mentions working for Osama Bin Laden, Achmed claims he does not think he's a Muslim ('look at my ass! It says 'Made in China''). Most of the humor Dunham expresses with Achmed centers on this motif. He also dubs the so-called Guitar Guy 'You racist bastard'! for warming up with typical Arab chords. Achmed first appeared in Spark of Insanity, and later made an appearance in the Very Special Christmas Special, singing a song called 'Jingle Bombs'. He is known for yelling, 'Silence! I kill you!' to Dunham and people laughing in the audience. Achmed is the skeletal corpse of an incompetent suicide bomber, whom Dunham uses to satirize the contemporary issue of terrorism.