{"id":122003,"date":"2020-11-28T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-jeff-dunham-pulled-off-last-minute-comedy-central-special\/"},"modified":"2020-11-28T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T23:03:22","slug":"how-jeff-dunham-pulled-off-last-minute-comedy-central-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-jeff-dunham-pulled-off-last-minute-comedy-central-special\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Jeff Dunham pulled off last-minute Comedy Central special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Jeff Dunham pulled off last-minute Comedy Central special<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/jeff-dunham-comedy-special-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Talk about pulling some creative strings.<\/p>\n<p>Comic ventriloquist Jeff Dunham orchestrated his newest Comedy Central special in remarkably quick time \u2014 adjusting to the confines of TV\u2019s COVID-era production reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came up with the idea literally two months ago and we shot it three weeks ago,\u201d Dunham, 58, says of \u201cJeff Dunham\u2019s Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special,\u201d airing Friday at 8 p.m. \u201cIt was a crazy turnaround creatively and technically. I heard of so many other comics doing specials [during COVID] in drive-ins, etc. and I said, \u2018We can do this.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my 10th special, and it\u2019s always an 18-to-24-month ordeal to build them, one joke at a time \u2026 getting the breathing the same and perfecting it so it\u2019s a lay-up,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to say I tricked Comedy Central into buying an \u2018un<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed\u2019 special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunham is being modest; Friday\u2019s telecast, his first in a new three-year deal with the cable network, was intricately planned despite the short timeframe and is built around jokes he\u2019s never before performed anywhere. He taped two live shows (on different nights) in Malibu, Calif., before a nightly audience of 100 people (following COVID protocols).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Dunham\u2019s Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x6KKug58wSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pulled aside a few writer friends and said, \u2018Here\u2019s the subject matter\u2019 and they started writing jokes,\u201d says Dunham, renowned for his stable of characters including Peanut, Bubba J and Walter. \u201cNo one communicated with each other face-to-face \u2026 and we put it all together. We cleaned it up to be more family-friendly \u2014 no politics whatsoever. Everybody is sick of that by now. It\u2019s just some goofy, stupid fun \u2026 literally what everyone is going through now, dealing with family members, relationships, being locked up at home \u2026 a little escapism and fun, a lighter take on this serious situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t try out a single joke before [taping],\u201d he says. \u201cNot on my wife, my friends or business associates. When I walked onto the stage that night I\u2019d never said these jokes out-loud to anyone on the planet. Only one bit was repeated, from my first time on \u2018The Tonight Show\u2019 with Johnny Carson in 1990. I wanted to bring that back because it\u2019s been a classic staple in my act for a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunham says the audiences for the two shows were solicited online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put it on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> on a first-come, first-serve basis and everyone else got put on a waiting list,\u201d he says. \u201cIt filled up instantly. Everyone had a COVID test three days in advance \u2014 people had to jump through fiery hoops to get to these shows. The worst audience in the world is one that gets in for free and without incident. They\u2019re always judgmental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people just wanted to laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, Dunham says, he\u2019s got a lot of material left over once the two shows were edited together for Friday\u2019s special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only had to use half of what I did those nights \u2014 and a good portion of my road show is written now.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Comic ventriloquist Jeff Dunham orchestrated his newest Comedy Central special in remarkably quick time \u2014 adjusting to the confines of TV\u2019s COVID-era production reality. \u201cI came up with the idea literally two months ago and we shot it three weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/jeff-dunham-comedy-special-02.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[81965,86,26010,1545,80099,82050,82060,1373],"class_list":["post-122003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-27-20","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-central","tag-coronavirus","tag-jeff-dunham","tag-satire","tag-ventriloquism","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}