This special was filmed in Malibu, California on October 28th, 2020 in front of a small, socially distanced audience seated outdoors. Talk about taking precautions! It looked like everyone in the audience was wearing masks as well, a reminder, from the standpoint of today, that we were all trying to get by like this during the pandemic. Jeff Dunham started out by saying that this show would offer all new material, which he took back at one point to reprise the first bit he ever did on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show with Peanut, Jose Jalapeno (on a stick), and a mini-Jeff dummy. Otherwise, it was the usual cast of characters with curmudgeon Walter, Bubba J, and Achmed the Dead Terrorist rounding things out. The show wasn't very long, about forty five minutes or so, but it was entertaining enough with a bonus of no four-letter words that I can recall, something that I feel mars some of his other televised specials. The longest gag involved Dunham with Peanut in a reworking of the Abbott and Costello 'Who's on First' routine, updated to frustrate the purple puppet with phrases like 'I can't tell you' and 'I don't remember' as the passwords to Jeff's various computer stations. All in all, I thought it was a pretty good show, one which the audience appreciated with their frequent applause.
Completely Unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special
(2020 TV Special)
"This is Comedy Central on a budget." - Walter
15 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers