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Jeff Dunham
Ventriloquist, standup comedian and actor Jeff Dunham will perform inside the Grand Event Center at the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Friday, June 24, at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets for this 21 and older show start at $75 and can be purchased online at goldennugget.com.
Sold-out global concert tours. Ratings-shattering broadcast specials. A best-selling author. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A few Guinness Book of World Records set for good measure.
Dunham, the only child of a real estate appraiser and homemaker, raised in a Dallas suburb, at the age of 9 received a toy ventriloquist dummy for Christmas, began to practice, and started dreaming of characters who could say what nobody else would dare. By the time he attended Baylor University, he was earning $70,000 a year for having public conversations with himself.
Later came the comedy club circuit, larger and larger venues, and ultimately sold-out concerts in the same arenas as Taylor Swift and Metallica. Dunham holds the Guinness Book of World Records record for Most Tickets Sold for a standup comedy tour, “Spark of Insanity Tour,” racked up almost 2 million tickets across almost 400 venues worldwide.
No wonder the man Slate called “America’s favorite comedian” and “Time” magazine cited as “a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder” is able to say the things you-wouldn’t-dare with his cadre of characters who tap into almost every aspect of American life. Whether the cranky old man Walter, who doubled as “Wonald Grump” and “Ben Hiden” during the last presidential election, the hyperactive and crazy Peanut, the self-explanatory José the Jalapeno on a Stick, the redneck cliché NASCAR-loving Bubba J, the utterly befuddled Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and Url, the basement dwelling social media smart-phone addict, Dunham allows each to speak their mind, regardless of how much they embarrass their co-star in the process.
The Golden Nugget is located at 2550 Golden Nugget Blvd. in Lake Charles, Louisiana.