"Eating peanuts, a baseball game, and your dirty mind." He put on quite a show with his virtuosic electric guitar playing, too, channeling Jimi Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner" while holding the instrument behind his head.Ī short intermission followed. I want you to be my disciplinarian, because I've been a bad Libertarian."Īnd he set the mood for some of the risque humor to follow, with songs like "Salty Nuts." "This song's about three things," he insisted.
"She'll make you straight if you gay," he sang. He also paid tribute, of a sort, to Alaska's Governor, to the roaring approval of this audience. In the course of his 20 minute routine, he talked and sang about being upstaged by his successful rock star son, falling in love with an inflatable doll, installing a PVC pipe in his trailer for his wife to use as a stripper pole. It also figured in the warm-up act, "Guitar Guy" Brian Haner. "Anyone who saw our show 15 years ago, I look now exactly like I looked then," he said, pointing his perpetual frown at the puppeteer and adding, "You - do not."Ī degree of self-deprecation has always long been part of the show for Dunham, who often must suffer in simulated silence while his creations belittle him and make him the butt of their jokes. Walter, the curmudgeonly dummy in Dunham's stable, noted another difference. Friday night more than 6000 people filled Sullivan Arena to near capacity for his latest visit to the state. When Jeff Dunham performed at Anchorage's Egan Center in 1993, tickets cost less than $20 and 900 curious comedy fans showed up to see the young ventriloquist.
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