Ever wonder what Halloween is like at comedian Jeff Dunham’s house?
Here’s an idea:
• Peanut the Purple Woozle is a superhero with his trusty sidekick (and secret nemesis) Ruben — aka José Jalapeño On A Steeck dressed in a red and gold cape ala Batman’s Robin.
• Walter the grump squeezes into on a hat that resembles Frankenstein’s forehead as he transforms into an even crankier Crankenstein.
• Beer-swilling Bubba J emerges in a black cape and fake tooth — “I use it as a bottle opener,” he chortled —as he rises from the dead as Dracula’s redneck cousin.
• And in perhaps the most twisted and hilarious Halloween get-up — Achmed the Dead Terrorist slaps on a blond wig and pink dress with falsies to become his own worst nightmare: An American woman.
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“What’s so scary about American women?” Dunham asks him.
“They can vote,” Achmed responds.
“I used to be a suicide bomber. Now I’m a suicide bombshell,” he adds.
Welcome to “Minding the Monsters,” Dunham’s new show set to air on Comedy Central Oct. 7. It is Dunham’s fifth Comedy Central special.
Tucson got a sneak peak of the show at Casino del Sol’s AVA Saturday night, and judging from the laughter and applause ringing out in the nearly full 5,000-capacity amphitheater, the show promises to be another hit for the veteran comedian.
For the second time in his career, Dunham has given Tucson a first look at a work before it aired on TV. We were first to see Achmed the Dead Terrorist’s debut in 2007 hours before it aired that same night on Comedy Central.
In “Monsters,” Dunham and his “little people in the boxes” recount Halloweens past, including Peanut’s recollection from a Halloween spent in Tucson.
”I scared a group of guys and they jumped out a window,” he said, his shock of green fuzz bouncing as he blurted out the punch line: “I was dressed as an immigration officer.”
Political correctness is not part of Dunham’s DNA. Everyone wore a bull’s eye, especially when Walter had the spotlight.
Where are we? Walter asked Dunham, who handed Walter a note with the words “Pasqua Yaqui” written on it.
Walter attempted to pronounce the name, then blurted out: “I’d like to buy a vowel.”
“Where are the walls?” he asked Dunham, looking around the amphitheater.
Dunham’s career is obviously tanking, Walter surmised. “Last year it was Carnegie Hall. This year it’s like the carnies are making a hall.”
When a man in the lawn section shouted out a complement toward the stage, Walter responded in true curmudgeon fashion: “Excuse me. Did the ticket say Jeff and his friends and the drunk in the back? Shut the (expletive) up!”
Ouch.
Bubba J said he and his Halloween character have a lot in common: “We both hang out with rednecks.”
“I wanted to be a ghost but somebody told me a redneck in a white sheet wasn’t a good thing,” he added in his slurred Southern twang.
When Dunham asked José if he had ever been a sidekick before, Peanut jumped in with yet another dig on his longtime nemesis: “Nope, but he’s been a side dish.”
Then Peanut turned his attention to Dunham, bringing out Dunham’s look-alike-puppet Little Ugly Jeff — the newest character in Dunham’s arsenal — wearing a pair of glasses in the shape of an “L” for loser.
But Achmed might have stolen the show. In a segment laced with sexually charged double entendres, Achmed taunted Dunham to look at his falsies.
“The last time I had plastic on my chest I blew up,” he said.
His favorite scary movie: “Silence! Of the Lambs”
Catch Dunham’s show Oct. 7 on Comedy Central.
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