Though one thing to consider. I know my fair share of red necks and most of them know how to use Google. So they’ve got a leg up on you there.

I have no idea what I’m talking about? How can one not know what the feel about someone? Where Dunham was born or when he introduced certain puppets changes nothing and you know it. The fact is he’s been around for over 20 years (first T.V. specific appearance being 1990 apparently), he wasn’t THIS popular until the last few, and he hasn’t been funny for many more years than that. He became the hit he is today once he garnered the middle aged crowd – which are exactly the people that keep sending out that God forsaken Achmed The Terrorist YouTube clip. Pointing out that Achmed’s name used to be “Dead Osama” only proves to further enhance my previous posts point. Also, from what I’ve read over the net a lot of other comics largely despise his act.

It’s kinda’ like The Blue Collar Comedy Tour: Absolutely garbage that insults the intelligence, but I’ll be damned if there aren’t a ton of dumb-ass, red-neck Americans that eat it up.

As for this…

“Either way I think we can all recognize that Dunham was not really that popular for over 15 years, then introduced a bunch of even more stereo-typical, more racist puppets and BLAM”

You’re wrong there too. I assume you are referring to Achmed who is the most recent puppet. But Dunham introduced him 8 years ago (at the time going by “Dead Osama”). You can read more about that here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6416138/Jeff-Dunham-political-incorrectness-for-dummies.html

So really you have no idea what you’re talking about (and had you simply spent a minute or so on Google you’d know that)

If Dunham isn’t Canadian why did he say he was on Conan the other night? Maybe I’m missing something…

As for the show, as I said above I’ve loved his stand up comedy since Jr. High (I’ve seen him live 16 times) but that show was awful. I can’t believe there are people out there who liked it.

I remember watching his act back when I was a little kid in Canada. Now all these years later here he is, doing the EXACT same bits, raping in the American market. It’s just humorous for me to read people talk about how great he is as though he’s some new act to just hit the scene and blow everyone away. His jokes are ancient, tired, retreads of material he’s been using for longer than any comic I can think of. As a kid I liked his stuff. Now I can’t stand it. And to hear so many older people go on about how great it is only further entrenches for opinion that his act is tired and unoriginal (old people like tired and unoriginal wink wink).

The only new-ish edition to Dunham’s schtick is the absolute comedy abomination know as Achmed The Terrorist. Did any of you see Dunham on Conan the other night with Achmed? It was excruciating. Even the audience seemed bored (or confused) with their very weak level of laughter.

If there’s one thing that this site has shown me conclusively it’s that T.V. is ruled by older people (not OLD people but ‘older’ people). Older demographics make up such a huge level of total viewers that if you can grab onto that demo you win. Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, Jeff Dunham, Letterman, NightLine, House, etc. If it appeals to and older demo as well as at least some younger viewers it wins. If it requires a certain level of investment eg. sci-fi, serialized shows, etc, you can bet it won’t do that well – and even if it does do well it’s only “well” compared to the “not well” of other shows like it.

If I had to compare the show with something, Its be seeing a really attractive lady, then finding out she used to be a man.

In other words, it was horrible.

Nettworks now have to adapt. They cannot rely on the over-the-air numbers they used to get. 15 years ago, most people I was related to only received over the air programming. Now everyone gets that with basic cable. Unless Cable raises their prices, the networks will continue to trend down.

But I’d much rather a scripted series an unscripted series… Perhaps for the writer community it would be better off at 10 is questionable…but then again–perhaps it wouldn’t of gotten as much ratings.

But a 10-11 series I would very much favor. An hour long lead in for the daily show i could see very good for Jon and Colbert.

The comedy snobs both probably shy away from Daily Show and Colbert both.

This wasn’t horrible…kinda childish, and nothing to keep me tuned in, but not horrible. For me, that’d be Parks & Recreation. I downloaded it to see what it was.

And yeah, he DOES have a following. Hasn’t this guy been on The Opry several, several times?

Comedy ‘snobs’ obviously will not enjoy his act; but his act has worked. Network fans are going to hate this series because quite simply a show like this will take away fans from other shows; however, this show is scripted and has writers. I’d think the scripted enthusiasts would be ecstatic about the success of this.

But of course it goes into the divisioning of Network vs. Basic Cable. That a Basic Cable channel can pull numbers like this and even if it drops moderately has to be infuriating to the networks. Cable has the abiility that perhaps networks are still to shy to do, and that is let the show and producers do its thing. NBC is notorious for getting his hands into the mix, and Comedy Central I think has shown that a hands off approach provides a much better viewing experience.