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Egyptian authorities are investigating absurd charges that a Vodafone commercial featuring a felt puppet contains coded terrorist messages: Appearing on a television show on Tahrir channel on ...
He’s not afraid to offend. His fearlessness led to the invention of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a skeleton puppet with a bad attitude. The latter has been a crowd favorite since he was introduced ...
The explosion came, appropriately enough, with Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a character Dunham debuted in late 2007 on his DVD Spark of Insanity. Achmed, a bigheaded Halloween skeleton, is a failed ...
Dunham then brings out Achmed the Dead Terrorist—essentially a skeleton with jutting eyeballs ... some of the things that come out of his puppets’ mouths. Indeed, the solo stand-up set ...
Achmed the Dead Terrorist is one of his most popular characters. The big-eyed skeleton is caustic and ... that other comics can't because of the puppets," Dunham said. "It's kind of like working ...
"Achmed the Dead Terrorist," was scrubbed from South African TV because it mocks Islam. The ringtone was taken from a puppet routine performed by Dunham, a native Texan, in a TV special on Comedy ...