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Jeff Dunham is a Actor American born on 18 april 1962 at Dallas (USA)
Jeffrey "Jeff" Dunham (born April 18, 1962) is an American ventriloquist, producer, and stand-up comedian who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show and Sonny With a Chance. He has six specials that run on Comedy Central: Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself, Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special, Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos, Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters, and Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map. Dunham also starred in The Jeff Dunham Show, a series on the network in 2009.
His style has been described as "a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder". Describing his characters, Time magazine said, "All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered." Dunham has been credited with reviving ventriloquism, and doing more to promote the art form than anyone since Edgar Bergen.
Dunham has been called "America's favorite comedian" by Slate.com, and according to the concert industry publication Pollstar, he is the top-grossing standup act in North America, and is among the most successful acts in Europe as well. As of November 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional $7 million in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube as of October 2009 (his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity was ranked as the ninth most watched YouTube video at the time). A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with its DVD selling over 400,000 in its first two weeks. Forbes.com ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, and reported that he was one of the highest-earning comics from June 2008 to June 2009, earning approximately $30 million during that period. Dunham also does occasional acting roles.
In addition to building the dummies he uses in his act, Dunham also restores antique ones as a hobby, such as The Umpire, a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) mechanized dummy built in 1941 to work the plate at a girl's softball game, which went unused and packed away for 50 years before Dunham acquired it in early 2008.
Dunham has harbored a love of helicopters since childhood and is fond of building and flying his own kit helicopters from Rotorway helicopter kits. At the time he finished writing his autobiography in June 2010, he was beginning to build his fourth kit. He is an aficionado of muscle cars and Apple, Inc. products.
According to the July 16, 2012, TV documentary, The Batmobile, Dunham owns a replica of the Batmobile that was used in the Tim Burton film Batman.
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His style has been described as "a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder". Describing his characters, Time magazine said, "All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered." Dunham has been credited with reviving ventriloquism, and doing more to promote the art form than anyone since Edgar Bergen.
Dunham has been called "America's favorite comedian" by Slate.com, and according to the concert industry publication Pollstar, he is the top-grossing standup act in North America, and is among the most successful acts in Europe as well. As of November 2009, he has sold over four million DVDs, an additional $7 million in merchandise sales, and received more than 350 million hits on YouTube as of October 2009 (his introduction of Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Spark of Insanity was ranked as the ninth most watched YouTube video at the time). A Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in Comedy Central history, with its DVD selling over 400,000 in its first two weeks. Forbes.com ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, and reported that he was one of the highest-earning comics from June 2008 to June 2009, earning approximately $30 million during that period. Dunham also does occasional acting roles.
Biography
Dunham met his first wife, Paige Brown, at the Comedy Corner in West Palm Beach, Florida. They began dating in December 1992. In May 1994, Dunham married Brown and adopted her one and a half year-old daughter, Bree. Their daughters Ashlyn and Kenna were born in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Dunham's time away while performing proved a strain on the marriage, and in November 2008 he filed for divorce. By mid-2009, Dunham was in a relationship with fellow Texan Audrey Murdick, a certified nutritionist, personal trainer and competition bodybuilder, and on December 25, 2011 they became engaged. On October 13, 2012, the couple married. On May 14, Dunham announced, via Facebook, that he and Audrey are expecting twin boys. His rep confirmed that James Jeffrey and Jack Steven Dunham were born on October 11, 2015.In addition to building the dummies he uses in his act, Dunham also restores antique ones as a hobby, such as The Umpire, a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) mechanized dummy built in 1941 to work the plate at a girl's softball game, which went unused and packed away for 50 years before Dunham acquired it in early 2008.
Dunham has harbored a love of helicopters since childhood and is fond of building and flying his own kit helicopters from Rotorway helicopter kits. At the time he finished writing his autobiography in June 2010, he was beginning to build his fourth kit. He is an aficionado of muscle cars and Apple, Inc. products.
According to the July 16, 2012, TV documentary, The Batmobile, Dunham owns a replica of the Batmobile that was used in the Tim Burton film Batman.
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, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Jeff Dunham, Joe Pingue, Robert Tinkler, Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph, Katherine Heigl
Roles Mole (voice)
Rating55%
Depuis la dernière aventure, Solo et le reste de la bande, ainsi que tous les animaux du parc, vivent heureux, mangeant à leur faim grâce au magasin de noix et Solo est très apprécié des autres. Mais un jour, le magasin explose et contraint tout le monde a déménager dans un autre parc, mais à peine ont-ils emménagé qu'un riche promoteur veut y construire un parc d'attraction. Solo et le reste des animaux vont devoir s'unir pour empêcher les plans de cet homme. Solo va bientôt faire connaissance d'une souris pratiquant les arts martiaux. Mais entre le maire et les animaux, qui va connaître la défaite ?
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
, 1h29Directed by Kelly Asbury
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, Mandy Patinkin, Jack McBrayer, Joe Manganiello, Dee Bradley Baker
Roles Farmer (voice)
Rating60%
La légende d’un autre village de Schtroumpfs pourrait se révéler vraie. Après la découverte d’une mystérieuse carte géographique, la Schtroumpfette se lance à la recherche du village, accompagnée du Schtroumpf à lunettes, du Schtroumpf costaud et du Schtroumpf maladroit. Mais comme toujours, Gargamel rôde à proximité.
Mune: Guardian of the Moon (2015)
, 1h26Directed by Alexandre de La Patellière, Benoît Philippon
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Omar Sy, Izïa, Patrick Préjean, Damien Boisseau, Féodor Atkine, Éric Herson-Macarel
Roles Phospho (voice)
Rating71%
Dans un monde imaginaire, un Soleil et une Lune sont petits et ont été inventés par les premiers Gardiens pour réchauffer la petite planète où vivent différents peuples merveilleux. Le premier Gardien du Soleil a harponné une étoile pour la garder près de la planète et l'a accrochée par des chaînes à un temple mobile semblable à un énorme animal quadrupède fait de roche. Le premier Gardien de la Lune, lui, est descendu dans le monde des rêves et a sculpté la Lune dans une carrière de pierre onirique et l'a lancée dans le ciel. La Lune est elle aussi tirée autour de la planète par un temple mobile, sorte d'énorme animal hybride entre un dromadaire et une girafe auquel elle est attachée par les filins d'une foule d'araignées à soie aux allures de hiboux. Depuis, les Gardiens se succèdent de génération en génération et préservent l'harmonie du monde. Les peuples du jour et ceux de la nuit vivent en bonne intelligence, même s'ils sont très différents les uns des autres. Mais dans les profondeurs de la planète, Nécross attend l'occasion d'établir les ténèbres sur le monde.
The Nut Job (2014)
, 1h26Directed by Peter Lepeniotis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fraser, Will Arnett, Gabriel Iglesias, Stephen Lang
Roles Mole (voice)
Rating57%
In fictional Oakton City, purple squirrel Surly and his mute rat partner, Buddy, reside in Liberty Park where their thieving reputation has made them outcasts. A group of urban animals led by Raccoon and his cardinal assistant, are running low on food for winter. Red squirrel Andie and gray squirrel Grayson, a self-styled hero, compete with Surly and Buddy to scavenge from a peanut cart manned by criminals Lucky and Fingers, who are casing a bank. The squirrels' efforts inadvertently end with the cart's propane tank exploding in the park and destroying the tree, where the animals store their food. Surly is banished and Buddy goes with him.
, 1h32Directed by Benoît "Ben" Stassen
Origin Belgique
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'une tortue, Children's films, Reptile
Actors Franck Dubosc, Billy Unger, IU (아이유), Pat Carroll, Kaitlyn Maher, Dino Andrade
Roles Jimbo (voice)
Rating56%
Sammy and Ray are supervising their new offspring, when seagulls attack them and both Sammy and Ray and two of their grandchildren Ella and Ricky are captured on trawler. While Ella and Ricky are separated and sent to the seabed, Sammy and Ray are taken to an aquarium with Lulu, a lobster with dissociative identity disorder and Jimbo a bug-eyed blobfish. Escape plans are run and tried by the leading seahorse Big D. Ella and Ricky set out with Annabel and Margaret, the pink octopus mother and daughter in order to rescue their grandfathers, getting chased by a pair of barracudas when they get there. After much communication trouble, Ella and Ricky interpret from Sammy that in order to escape the aquarium several squids expel ink into the ventilation system, while all the aquarium inhabitants play dead. Before initiating the escape plan, Sammy and Ray get the tyrannical Big D out of the way. The reluctant aquarium manager opens the emergency doors allowing all sea creatures out to freedom.
Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012)
, 1h18Directed by Kirk Wise
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Films about dogs, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle, Mindy Cohn, Craig Ferguson, Jess Harnell
Roles Schmatko / Conductor (voice)
Rating69%
Scooby-Doo and the gang travel to Atlantic City, where Fred enthusiastically takes them to see The Brancusi Circus. They arrive to find that the circus does not open until tomorrow, but decide to look around when they notice that the front door is unlocked. Whilst searching, they meet a man who is pursuing a werewolf that has intruded into the circus. The werewolf attacks the gang, but is eventually scared off by Velma, using a spotlight. The man thanks the gang and introduces himself as Marius Brancusi, the ringleader. Marius inherited the circus from his uncle last year and has been working to modernize it. He informs the gang that the werewolf they had encountered has been shadowing the circus for a few months, has scared off many of his artists, and has stolen jewelry wherever they are. He even suspects that the werewolf might be one of his own artists. Velma notices that this incident alludes to a case during the 18th century, in Ingolstadt, where a werewolf named Hans collected a combination of jewels which enabled him to change into a werewolf at any time. After the gang tells Marius that they solve mysteries, Marius hires them to go undercover as circus performers.
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Gorō Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Animation, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Yuriko Ishida, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Rumi Hiiragi
Roles Gen Shiraki
Rating74%
Umi Matsuzaki is a 16-year-old student at Isogo High School living in Coquelicot Manor, a boarding house overlooking the Port of Yokohama in Japan. Her mother Ryoko is a medical professor studying abroad in the United States. Umi runs the house and looks after her younger siblings Sora and Riku and her grandmother, Hana. College student Sachiko Hirokouji and doctor-in-training Miki Hokuto also live there. Each morning, Umi raises a set of signal flags with the message "I pray for safe voyages".
Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
, 1h54Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Stephanie Szostak, Jemaine Clement, Bruce Greenwood
Roles Lewis the Ventriloquist
Rating58%
Tim Conrad (Paul Rudd) is a mid-level financial executive, who comes up with a way (via special novelty lamps) to invite wealthy Swiss businessman Martin Mueller (David Walliams) to become a client of his firm. Impressed by Tim's ingenuity, his boss Lance Fender (Bruce Greenwood) invites him to a "dinner for winners" in which he must find and bring an eccentric person with a special talent; the winner earns a trophy and the executive that brought him or her gets glory. He soon learns it is more of a "dinner for idiots", and the partygoers will be mocked mercilessly. Meanwhile, Tim's girlfriend Julie (Stephanie Szostak) lands a curator deal for eccentric artist Kieran Vollard (Jemaine Clement), and Tim unsuccessfully proposes to her, as he has done several times before. After learning of the cruel nature of the dinner party, Julie becomes upset and asks him not to attend and he agrees.
I'm No Dummy (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Bryan W. Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jay Johnson, Jeff Dunham, Jimmy Nelson, Kelly Asbury
Roles Himself
Rating64%
History of the Joke (2008)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Actors Lewis Black, Dave Attell, George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn
Roles Self
Rating66%
Delta Farce (2007)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Larry the Cable Guy, Christina Moore, DJ Qualls, Bill Engvall, Danny Trejo, Keith David
Roles Amazing Ken
Rating36%
Larry is a waiter who has just lost his job and his girlfriend. Bill is a flustered husband living off a slip and fall lawsuit settlement. Everett is an inept security guard who was fired after only four days as a police officer. The three are members of the State Military Reserves, although their duties in the reserve consist mostly of drinking and partying at the reserve center once a month.