Episode 1112 - Jeff Dunham

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

A lot of comedians spend years or decades finding their voice on stage, but Jeff Dunham was very young when he settled on his comic voice. He then proceeded to throw that voice, to great success. Jeff tells Marc what attracted him to ventriloquism, how he studied it, and where he started doing it. Jeff also explains how he designs and creates new puppets, why he uses the puppets when he’s interviewed on the radio, and how he’s responded to accusations of racial insensitivity in his characters.

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0:00.0	Lock the gates!
0:09.2	Alright, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck nicks?
0:14.7	What's happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast
0:18.3	WTF in lockdown
0:21.4	indefinitely
0:22.9	How are how are you holding up? It's weird. It's getting weirder and more
0:28.7	It's it's scarier and stranger and time becomes a smear on the calendar
0:36.5	Just one day into the next don't know what day it is. I didn't know what day it was today when I woke up
0:41.6	I didn't know what day Saturday was there's none of the
0:45.9	What is it signposts or lampposts or signifiers or just habits that define your days?
0:53.6	It's fucking nuts, man
0:55.6	Overfocusing on cats because I don't have kids
1:01.0	So like wondering what they're up to I really think it's gotten to the point where
1:05.6	My cats are like this is getting to be a bit much with this guy
1:10.6	here in our house all the time
1:13.2	You know it's getting a little intense for the cats, I think and
1:20.0	just
1:21.6	It's really a test of some kind. Obviously we got the mask thing now that here in Los Angeles
1:29.5	I think all over California. We got a
1:32.0	Wear masks when we go outside
1:34.8	I sort of started to do that before they
1:37.6	Kind of instituted as a requirement. I still am not clear on whether I should do it while I'm jogging
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