Post #12 Free Write

Today on the phone my mom told me that one of our family friends was looking at buying a new car. When I asked her, "What kind of car?" She replied with, "A blue Toyota Prius," and gave a short laugh. As soon as she mentioned that little bitty car it immediately brought my mind to Jeff Dunham and his dolls.

Jeff Dunham is a ventrilaquist and he is so good that he has been featured on Comedy Central, Saturday Night Live, and even been able to create his own DVD's of his shows. Jeff has visited the great state of Nebraska at least twice that I know of. Both times he made a stop at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Omaha.

In this video you don't get to see any of his dolls or puppets or whatever you want to call them because it is the prelude to his show which sparked my memory of his video. His skits are full of one liners that would make anyone laugh. His jokes are funny yet very tasteful. He doesn't cross the line on topics that he brings up. He doesn't poke fun at just one group of people he targets all groups of people with his jokes. His jokes are often related to current issues that are in our world at the time. This includes gas prices and terrorism.

Jeff Dunham has seven dolls in his collection. These include Peanut, the weird purple guy from space that is personally my favorite , Walter, the senile old man, Achmed, the dead terrorist, Bubba J, the trailor park guy, Sweet Daddy D, Jeff's manager, Melvin the Superhero, the fat superhero with no powers, and finally Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick, no explaination necessary. Each of his characters has its own personality. They are easily relateable and everyone can pick out someone like them in their own life. Walter reminds me so much of what my grandfather was.

Back to the story about my family friend, he also owns a chihuahua. Immediately I begin to question the credibility of our friend. It makes me wonder if his new Prius is blue, if it has christmas stickers on the back, and if he lets his wife drive the big SUV home while he drives his new Prius.

T.I.