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In addition to building the dummies he uses in his act, Dunham restores antique dummies as a hobby, one of which is The Umpire, a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) mechanized dummy built in 1941 to work the plate at a girls' softball game. The Umpire was unused and was packed away for 50 years before Dunham acquired it in early 2008.
Great names in the history of dummy making include Jeff Dunham, Frank Marshall (the Chicago creator of Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, [27] Nelson's Danny O'Day, [27] and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney), Theo Mack and Son (Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, Cecil Gough, [28] and Glen & George McElroy. The McElroy ...
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Dunham says when it comes to Jose and Achmed — two of his most popular characters — he knows that an image of a white man with a Latino and Middle Eastern dummy may look offensive but urges ...
This is a list of notable ventriloquists and their best known characters. It is ordered by nationality or country in which they were notable in an alphabetical order, and then by alphabetical order of surname.
Jeff Dunham, who charmed and disarmed comedy lovers at the Schottenstein Center in 2014, will return Dec. 30. Tickets go on sale Oct. 10.
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The idea of that seamless exchange, that one can switch those personalities or characters between the ventriloquist and the dummy very quickly.” There's two of us here! Jeff Dunham states, “If I believe onstage that these guys are carrying on a conversation with me and are actually real, that audience is easily sucked into that reality as well.