Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's second live-performance DVD, Spark of Insanity, is much funnier than his first, Arguing With Myself, perhaps because his new puppets allow him to cover more controversial territory beyond skits about family beefs and office humor. Spark of Insanity (Blu-ray) is the ultimate event special from one of comedy's most inventive minds. Taped at the historic Warner Theater in Washington D.C., this sold out concert is twice the length of the Comedy Central broadcast, with exclusive extras, featuring "The Making of Melvin," "What Would You Put on a Stick?" and a surprise political announcement from Walter! Jeff Dunham welcomes "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," "Melvin the Superhero," and long-time favorites "Peanut," "Walter" and Jose Jalapeno.on a STEEK! in an entirely original show for everyone! However, his skills as a ventriloquist alone make him a fascinating entertainer, and anyone interested in how puppetry and ventriloquism has progressed over the decades would benefit from watching Dunham bring life to his wooden friends. In other words, Dunham’s humor isn’t overtly offensive enough to make fun of ethnic heritage. Since the entire audience in the film is white, it is difficult to assess whether or not African-Americans or Latinos would find Dunham funny.
At times, though, Dunham’s humor seems to lose its ironic distance, especially as he interacts with puppets like Jose Jalapeno, a Cuban chile pepper, or Sweet Daddy D, a Black pimp, both reliant on the antiquated humor once popularized in cartoons by racial caricature. One can easily see why Jay Leno champions Dunham, as his skits contain a similar sly sarcasm disguised as wholesome teasing aimed at men indebted to their ugly wives, for example, or people who live their lives working in cubicles. Starring his six main characters, from Bubba Jay, a Nascar-obsessed hick, to Peanut, a flamboyant gay monkey, Dunham’s puppets have dirty but relatively inoffensive senses of humor that mock the American Dream. Join Jeff and his outspoken-often-edgy characters: Walter, Peanut, Jose Jalapeno, Bubba J and Sweet Daddy Dee for a live show that will have you on the floor laughing!Īrguing With Myself, a recorded live performance of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, portrays a comedian whose revival of an old-fashioned art has made ventriloquism more relevant to modern societal concerns. “I don’t hold Dunhman accountable, but ourselves instead,” he says.Jeff Dunham sets the standard for how truly awesome a comedy Blu-ray disc can be. Kanoo wonders how such an act could even make its way to the UAE. Now you can do that act or whatever you want in your part of the world but to bring it here is irresponsible.” He is associating terrorism with Islam and terrorism with Arabs. What I am saying is this humour has malice in the way that he is pointing to religion. “Now some people may say this is humour and it’s all fine and we should accept it. “It’s insulting and defamatory,” he said. Mishal Kanoo, a comedy fan, Dubai resident and deputy chairman of the business company The Kanoo Group, says Dunham’s act is not suitable in the Middle East. In 2008, a South African television commercial promoting an Achmed the Dead Terrorist ringtone was banned, with the country’s Advertising Standards Authority reportedly calling it offensive to Muslims.
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