Jeff Dunham talks new "baby'" character, Netflix special

Larry King: How do you come up with a new character?

Jeff Dunham: The new characters, again, like Achmed the Dead Terrorist for example-

Larry King: How many do you have? How many different?

Jeff Dunham: I have four in the regular act.

Larry King: So to get a new one, you have to really test it, right?

Jeff Dunham: Sure, and we did my Netflix special in Ireland last week, five days ago we were shooting it, and I thought, “Okay, I’m going to go to Ireland. So I’m going to do something just for the Irish people, but it’ll still be funny to everybody.” I have 20-month-old twin boys, I’m constantly dealing with the baby stuff, and so I created a baby character puppet. We’re going to Ireland, well the baby needs to have a drinking problem. [Laughs] So here’s this little infant with a drinking problem, it’s this giant-headed baby and he has an Irish accent, and you know, in Ireland they love the fact that they have drinking problems-

Larry King: I know.

Jeff Dunham: They’re proud of that. And so we made drinking jokes, and I did baby jokes, and it all worked together. So I respond to circumstance.

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