{"id":45242,"date":"2022-11-03T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=45242"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T03:28:24","slug":"comedy-central-announces-new-special-from-superstar-comedian-jeff-dunham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/03\/comedy-central-announces-new-special-from-superstar-comedian-jeff-dunham\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central Announces New Special from Superstar Comedian Jeff Dunham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14613\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14613\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed-560x381.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed-260x177.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Dunham, American comedian, with his puppet \/ character &#8220;Achmed the Dead Terrorist&#8221; Photo: Richard Mclaren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comedy Central announced today a new one-hour special from global stand-up superstar Jeff Dunham. &#8220;<strong><em>Jeff Dunham: Me the People<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; is set to world premiere during Thanksgiving weekend on Friday, November 25th @ 8:00PM ET\/ PT.<\/p>\n<p>Shot at the historic Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, &#8220;<em>Me the People<\/em>&#8221; is Jeff&#8217;s 11th stand up special. With the help of many of his beloved characters (and even a brand new one!), Dunham tackles how much time we dedicate to our devices, the ridiculous things we spend money on, and cancel culture in comedy.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2530381760\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The special is executive produced by Judi Marmel, Stu Schreiberg, and John Bravakis. Ryan Moran is the executive producer for Paramount Media Networks &amp; MTV Entertainment Studios, with Harold Ber\u00f3n III as executive in charge of production. &#8220;<em>Jeff Dunham: Me the People&#8221; follows his last special &#8220;Completely Unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special<\/em>&#8221; which premiered on Comedy Central in November 2020. Dunham&#8217;s specials have a storied and successful ratings history on Comedy Central with &#8220;<em>Unhinged in Hollywood<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Completely Unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Very Special X-Mas<\/em>&#8221; ranking as the top three stand-up specials to date among total viewers P2+. In addition, Dunham has the eight most-watched stand-ups on Comedy Central to date.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham has completed 9 international tours, with shows in more than 20 countries. International tour stops include arenas in Canada, U.K., Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, Australia, New Zealand, Abu Dhabi, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa (where he is the highest-selling international comedian). Of note, Jeff sold over 12,000 tickets in the city of Amsterdam alone, and over 2% of the country&#8217;s population was in attendance at his performance in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>The man Slate called &#8220;America&#8217;s favorite comedian&#8221; has ten record-breaking comedy specials to his credit and holds three of the top-five, highest-rated stand-up specials on Comedy Central. Of those, &#8220;<em>Minding the Monsters<\/em>&#8221; (2012) and &#8220;<em>Controlled Chaos<\/em>&#8221; (2011) were the network&#8217;s most viewed stand-up specials of their respective years, while &#8220;<em>Jeff Dunham&#8217;s Unhinged in Hollywood<\/em>&#8221; remains Comedy Central&#8217;s highest rated stand-up of all time (P18-49\/ P2+).<\/p>\n<p>His latest special for the network, 2020&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Jeff Dunham&#8217;s Completely Unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special<\/em>&#8221; marked Comedy Central&#8217;s highest-rated stand-up special in five years, garnering over 4 million views in just five days, surpassing his own &#8220;<em>Unhinged in Hollywood<\/em>&#8221; special.<\/p><div id=\"morty-948201421\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the time of its airing, Dunham&#8217;s NBC primetime special, &#8220;<em>Unhinged in Hollywood<\/em>,&#8221; ranked as the time period&#8217;s top non-sports program on the Big 4 and was rebroadcast six weeks later on Comedy Central to become its most-watched special of 2015. The Bio Channel&#8217;s premiere of &#8220;<em>Birth of a Dummy<\/em>&#8221; in 2011, a two-hour special on Dunham&#8217;s life and career, was the most-watched telecast in the network&#8217;s history, while the re-airing immediately following the premiere marked the network&#8217;s second most-watched telecast. As A&amp;E relaunched the Biography series, Dunham&#8217;s special was one of three previous episodes from its decades-long run chosen to be remade in the new format, with &#8220;<em>Talking Heads<\/em>&#8221; premiering in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his broadcast achievements, his specials have garnered nearly 2.5 billion views across all platforms. His autobiography, <em>All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me<\/em>, landed Dunham on the New York Times&#8217; Best Seller list three weeks in a row. 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For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffdunham.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.jeffdunham.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Media Networks &amp; MTV Entertainment Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy Central announced today a new one-hour special from global stand-up superstar Jeff Dunham. &#8220;Jeff Dunham: Me the People,&#8221; is set to world premiere during Thanksgiving weekend on Friday, November 25th @ 8:00PM ET\/ PT. Shot at the historic Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, &#8220;Me the People&#8221; is Jeff&#8217;s 11th stand up special. 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