jeff dunham biography

Jeff Dunham's numerous plastic family has all the members it needs to form the unbeatable comedy alliance. Jeff Dunham comedy act usually includes just a few of all eight puppets, known by his fans as the "Suitcase Posse", puppets that when touched by comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham come to life and develop a personality.

Edgar Bergen was a real source of inspiration for the future ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, who turned at an early age to Bergen's books and recordings, in order to learn the skills he needed when first starting out.

The American best of all time comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham was born in 1960 in Dallas, Texas. In 1967, at seven years old, the boy that would become the most famous comedian and vetriloquist, Jeff Dunham, saw a ventriloquist puppet in a toy store and wished that for Christmas. That Christmas, the future ventriloquist Jeff Dunham found under the family tree, a replica of Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd.