Recently Comedy Central has been running Jeff Dunham's special Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity. If you aren't familiar with Jeff Dunham, he is a comedian whose 'shtick' is that he is also a ventriloquist. He works primarily with a dummy called Walter, but his cast of characters includes a few others as well (such as Achmed the dead terrorist....)
His comedy is reasonable funny, and his act would be good except for one thing: YOU SEE HIM MOVING wayyyyyyyy tooooooo much when the dummy is supposed to be talking. No, I don't mean that he is moving around, I mean that you can look at his adam's apple area and see it moving with every word that comes out of the dummy's mouth.
I realize that this sort of act isn't easy, and it's made even more difficult because the show is being taped for broadcast with the camera zooming in much more than the audience in the auditorium can see, but when sitting at home and watching the special on TV you see the guy's lips moving somewhat, his adam's apple moving quite a bit and you are distracted way too much.
It's a shame that this is the case, as otherwise I think the guy would be pretty funny. As I sit and watch the broadcast that's being repeated tonite I kind of have the thought that Dunham should perhaps work within a puppet theatre and keep himself out of the picture as much as possible.
