All by My Selves by Jeff Dunham

Author:Jeff Dunham [Dunham, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humor, Ventriloquism, Form, Dunham; Jeff, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, United States, Personal Memoirs, Comedians, Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Ventriloquists, Comedians - United States, Biography
ISBN: 9780525951414
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2009-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Peanut: It’s nice when folks make you feel like a loser for playing their town.

The next couple of years, I kept doing as much television as possible. Being on the air was the key to building an audience and hopefully extending my “fifteen minutes of fame.” After that first Tonight Show, Jim booked me four more times in the next two years, with my last Carson appearance coming just a few months before Johnny’s retirement in the spring of 1992. Johnny always liked Walter the most, and I used Walter more than Peanut or José on television simply because of that. Of course, Carson would know what works. He had out-shined and outlasted every other late-night host.

My most memorable of the appearances was with Tim Conway. Things didn’t start out on the best note. Before the taping began, I was in my dressing room getting ready, and I opened what I thought was the door to my bathroom. Turns out, I had opened the door to Conway’s dressing room and accidently walked in on him in nothing but his underwear. I was mortified and started backing away, apologizing profusely, and Tim piped up, “No, no, come on in, it’s fine, let’s have a party!” Whoever was with me that day cracked up, then I did, and it was funny as hell.

The most memorable piece of each appearance, however, were the ad-libs. I never ran those extra jokes by McCawley, or anyone else on the show. It was dangerous, but never took a bad turn. For example, during one of my stand-up segments, Walter turned to look over at Johnny, who was of course sitting at his desk. Walter did a double take and said, “Hey, I think I know that guy. That’s my wife’s first husband! He paid off my mortgage!”

Most Tonight Show fans knew Carson was on his fourth marriage, and Ed McMahon, the show’s longtime announcer and sidekick of Johnny’s, was recently divorced as well, and was known to be dating a much younger woman. So I took my chances once again. While the “my wife’s first husband” laugh was dying away, Walter then turned to look at the couch and said, “Shut up, Ed. You’re next!”

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