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Funnyman Jeff Dunham bringing his puppets to Phoenix for April show

Oct 2, 2018, 5:14 PM

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PHOENIX — Comedian Jeff Dunham and his twisted cast of puppet sidekicks are coming to Phoenix next year.

The popular ventriloquist’s “Passively Aggressive” tour will stop at Talking Stick Resort Arena on April 27.

Tickets, which start at $46.50 plus fees, are available through Ticketmaster.

Dunham will be bringing along dummies Peanut, Walter, José Jalapeño, Bubba J and Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

If you think the downtown arena is too big a venue for a guy talking to puppets, think again.

Dunham set a Guinness World Record for most tickets sold on a stand-up comedy tour when 1,981,720 paying fans turned out for his “Spark of Insanity” tour from 2007 to 2010.

He was No. 9 on Forbes’ 2017 list of the highest-paid comedians, raking in more than $15 million.

Dunham has done multiple shows for Comedy Central, and he released a Netflix special, “Relative Disaster,” last year.

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Funnyman Jeff Dunham bringing his puppets to Phoenix for April show