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Jeff Dunham, born in 1960 in Dallas, Texas, is an American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian and has come a long way since breaking into show business at age seven. As an only child, he invented „a menagerie of characters” that helped ease his natural shyness. Dunham began teaching himself ventriloquism with a plastic Mortimer Snerd puppet. His first show was in the third grade. It was for an oral book report on Hansel and Gretel.

It was not until 1975 that Dunham would meet a live ventriloquist, and soon thereafter he would take weekly inspiration from actor/ventriloquist Jay Johnson on „Soap”