Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself is a stage performance of comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. The show was taped in Santa Ana, California. The DVD was released on April 11, 2006. It is Dunham's first DVD.
Characters[]
- Walter - A grumpy old Vietnam war veteran with an attitude. He obviously doesn't give a damn about anything or anyone. He also hates his wife.
- Sweet Daddy D - Jeff's new manager from the street. Says he's a "Player In The Management Profession. PIMP." According to Sweet Daddy, that makes Jeff the ho.
- Bubba J - In Jeff's own words, "Pretty much just white-trash trailer-park." Talks about NASCAR, drinking beer, and his wife.
- Peanut - A purple woozle from Micronesia resembling a small caricature of an ape. Wears one red Converse shoe on his left foot. Walter said he's like "a frickin' Muppet on crack." In the first and second specials, he also mocks José's being on a stick, saying "Maybe it was a horrible pogo accident. You know, doing-doing.... crriccck! Olé!" He also thought that maybe Jose was mooning a javelin thrower. He pronounces Santa Ana as "Sah, Nah-tah Ah...nah!"Oh yeah, he also does Peanut Foo, (kung foo is with two arms, and his other arm is kinda %$#%)
- José Jalapeño on a Stick - a jalapeño pepper on a stick or "steeeek" as he says it with a Hispanic accent.
DVD Release[]
The special was released on DVD and on Blu-ray Disc later. This was the only special that had a choice of the censored or uncensored versions of the special.
Special features[]
- Puppet bloopers-Two bloopers, Peanut's hair flies off and that is when he does Peanut Fu at Jeff, cause it hurtswhen you get hair screwed back on and Walter arms uncross.
- Violation of the Peanut Doll-Walter introduces a video of a small dog humping a Peanut doll.
- Walter's Goodbye-The camera approaches Walter and Walter states he doesn't do interviews and he'll "kick your ass to Calcutta".
- Audio Commentary-Commentary on the special by Jeff and Kelly Asbury (author of the book, Dummy Days and co-directed Shrek 2).
Trivia[]
- This is the only special to feature Sweet Daddy D. He would likely be put out of the act during the making of the following Comedy special, likely due to accusation against racism.
- This is also the only special not to include Achmed the Dead Terrorist, as he hadn't been created yet, and wouldn't be introduced until a year later in the next special, Spark of Insanity.
- In Fact, it has often been rumored that Achmed has replaced Sweet Daddy D in every comedy special from then on; Partially because of the reason previously mentioned above, and partially because Achmed himself had became mass sensation on YouTube in 2007.
- Jeff Dunham's first comedy Special would inspire a similar Live-Concert DVD release in 2014 of another ventriloquist, Terry Fator Live in Concert. Both the said Terry Fator Direct-to-DVD\Digital stage performance, and Arguing with Myself would additionally also serve as the inspirational basis for the Direct-to-DVD stage performance, Darci Lynne: Friends Stick Together, starring Darci Lynne Farmer, the young ventriloquist who won Season 12 of America's Got Talent.
External links[]
- Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself at the Internet Movie Database