jeff dunham sucks

I've heard his name dropped for years now, and finally he caught up to me. He came on comedy central and I've been eavesdropping for about 10 minutes.

He's performing at the Pabst theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the beginning of the performance, he remarked "I knew I'd come back here to do my special" Why? One can only guess.

After hearing him go on a 5 minute long diatribe using grossly antiquated black slang phrases (through his dummies), I got the picture immediately. Slang from the hood gets absorbed into white culture, first on the cutting edge among younger people, then to the more "hip" TV shows and movies, and finally to middle-aged white suburbanites - but only after years have passed. When the phrase "bling bling" came into vogue among white kids back in 1999, one wouldn't even fathom that just now in 2009, a decade later, you hear it finally filtered through the various camps of society to a brazenly out of touch marketing team that put together a car commercial.

The point I'm trying to make is he picked his audience very carefully. A group of aging Midwestern suburbanite hicks who aren't particularly adept to relevant humor.

Well done Jeff Dunham. Keep on trucking - pending the rest of this special you might creep into the ballpark of Brian Regan suckiness.