Jeff Dunham (b. 1962) is an American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian who has appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show, and Sonny With a Chance.

Dunham performed at the Center for Puppetry Arts's 10th anniversary event, "The Muppets Take Atlanta."

Muppet Mentions[]

• In the tour Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, his character Peanut (the purple creature) comments on another of his characters Jose Jalapeno calling Jeff "Senor Heff" and then "Senor Cheff." Jeff says it's the same thing and Peanut replies, "No it's not! Didn't you watch Sesame Street?" Then he sings a brief section of "One of These Things," singing "One of these things just doesn't belong here," finishing with a reference to the announced sponsors on Sesame Street: "This show was sponsored by the sound CH."

• In his Controlled Chaos tour, his puppets Peanut and Jose are fighting and one of the insults Jose throws him is "Muppet Reject."

• In Dunham's Minding the Monsters show, Bubba J is dressed as a beer vampire. Jeff tells Bubba J that he kinda looks like The Count from Sesame Street. Bubba J then asks Jeff if it's the vampire that can count, and after it's confirmed, he says the Count and he are different as he can only count to six and he has to trust that there are twelve beers in a twelve pack.

• On the Netflix special Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster, Walter comments on how much younger Jeff's wife is. "She is more familiar with Sesame Street. What, you sweep her off her feet by doing Cookie Monster impressions?" Walter then continues with a Cookie Monster impression: "Oh, I love Audrey. Do you want a kiss or a cookie?" Walter then jumps to a Count impression: "You're one, two, three times older than your wife," followed by "Rubber Duckie, you're the one."