Dudette, a friend, CK and I, saw Jeff Dunham in concert this past Saturday.
We all came home hurting from laughing so much. To get an idea...
why, check this out. Of course, if you are easily offended (and with his material, you'd have to be easily offended), then skip it.
Or, you can check this one out, though it is a bit choppy loading.
Anyway, Dudette and I caught a special on Comedy Central, laughed hard enough, we ordered his DVD's. Loved those. If you get them, enjoy the extras in them. They are almost better than the recorded show. But that led us to keeping an eye out for him to come to town. And he did. The tickets weren't all that expensive and we got fantastic seats, just about ten rows from the stage and almost centered.
One of our concerns was, would he be doing the same material on stage for the tour, as he did on the DVD?
Newp. Almost ALL his act was different from the DVD. And it was GREAT!
He had Guitar Guy (I am still trying to find found more information on him...he was dynamite also) open. His bit lasted only about half an hour, but had us glued all 30 minutes of it. I will have to keep an eye out for him to come back through also, as a warm up act or solo. Either way, he'd be worth seeing again.
Dunham came out and delivered, as I mentioned, almost entirely fresh material. He messed around with the audience, carrying on about local settings, and picking up on happenings inside the arena. Also, he would get himself side tracked and take off on a tangent, then come back. All good.
Some of the better moments were when he had Guitar Guy back out to help with parts of the show. For whatever reason, that was the time to ad-lib the most. Maybe it was to try and make Guy lose it, or just because.... But he would pop off with something and the two of them would end up laughing along with the audience. And I mean LAUGHING. And at times when this was happening, he found the concentration to respond to it through whatever puppet he was working at the time. And THAT made it funnier.
I would suggest that before you go to see him, and you should, get copies of his DVD's to watch first. He uses references from his other acts as punch lines. The material is still funny, but with the knowledge of his older skits, they are funnier.
When he did his encore, he called upon one of his lesser used, other characters as the closing bit. He didn't deviate from the planned skit this character was known for and he picked up almost immediately that the audience knew all the lines. So he would set up the joke, and let us finish it. He truly seemed amazed that so many of us would know the lines so well.
I will say this...I honestly think he has more fun doing the shows than the crowd does. What a job to have.
Long story short, next time he comes back through, we're getting FRONT ROW seats.
Laughter happens.
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