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• [In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dirty, Drunk, Dui

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• I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

  Jeff Dunham

  Girl, Events, Littles

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I don't think I am very easy to work for because everything has to be just right or we don't put it out. But at the same time, all the people that work for me have a "no asshole" rule, if you're a jerk you're fired, so it's a great team and a lot of skillful people at the top of the game, anybody from management to the agents to the publicists to the day-to-day website stuff and it's just a great team.

  Jeff Dunham

  Team, Thinking, Games

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.

  Jeff Dunham

  Perfect, Trying, Aspect

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• I'm a geek to the bone.

  Jeff Dunham

  Geek, Bones

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

  Jeff Dunham

  Adversity, Comedian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

  Jeff Dunham

  Stuff, Stage, Shows

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.

  Jeff Dunham

  Cancer, Kids, Laughing

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

  Jeff Dunham

  Girl, Sports, Kids

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

  Jeff Dunham

  School, June, Years

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• Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

  Jeff Dunham

  People, Biographies, Ghost

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

  Jeff Dunham

  Jobs, Artist, Long

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dvds, People, Fifteen

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Stories, Puppets

  "A Q&A with ventriloquist Jeff Dunham". Interview with Jill Diver, www.gloucestertimes.com. October 20, 2010.

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• On weekends when everybody would go to the football games, I would be getting on a plane or driving my car across the state or across the country to go do a show somewhere and yeah so, I never thought of doing anything else.

  Jeff Dunham

  Country, Football, Weekend

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

  Jeff Dunham

  Used, Prius, Picks

  "Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Fighting, Tape, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.

  Jeff Dunham

  Husband, Real, Nice

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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