With his tousled-hair guy-next-door look and a comedy routine that mixes raucous banter with his dummies’ riffs on life, the Encino resident’s rise has gone mostly unnoticed by the national media. For the first time since the heyday of Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy and “The Ed Sullivan Show,” nearly a half century ago, ventriloquism has moved back into the entertainment mainstream, and Dunham is leading the way. He can thank a bunch of dummies with names including Bubba J, Walter and Achmed the Dead Terrorist for his astonishing success. The 47-year-old entertainer routinely sells out concert halls and arenas at home and abroad, travels in a decked-out touring bus and just launched a new weekly cable television show. In the last few years, Jeff Dunham has become something akin to a rock star.
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