Jeff Dunham Dishes On His Friend Tim Allen’s “Really Dark” Sense Of Humor
Jeff Dunham has become known as something of a family-friendly comedian. He may let the occasional, mild curse word slip out, but for the most part, people would consider him to be someone who “works clean.” Despite his multiple roles as a family man on shows like Home Improvement, Last Man Standing and The Santa Clauses, the same cannot be said for his friend Tim Allen. Allen has been doing stand-up for decades, so a foul mouth is to be expected, but according to Dunham, this also includes a rather “dark” sense of humor.
I caught up with Jeff Dunham to discuss his Valentine’s Day special, Jeff Dunham: I’m With Cupid. While discussing his various television appearances, which included a guest spot on Last Man Standing, Dunham told me this story that properly exemplifies his friend Tim Allen’s way of “testing” folks.
I caught up with Jeff Dunham to discuss his Valentine’s Day special, Jeff Dunham: I’m With Cupid. While discussing his various television appearances, which included a guest spot on Last Man Standing, Dunham told me this story that properly exemplifies his friend Tim Allen’s way of “testing” folks.
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00:00You I mean because you were on last man standing too, you know speaking of the cameos, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Tim's great
00:05Tim's great. He's like, you know, uh
00:08One of my buddies one of my buddies said that tim has a great sense of humor
00:12And uh, i'll tell this story. So one of my buddies says i'm not sure about tim allen
00:16I go why he goes I was at a car show
00:18and he goes he goes, um
00:20He walked up to tim and introduced himself and he goes
00:24What what what car did you bring today? Tim tim looked at him and goes none of your fucking business
00:28So it's like if you don't know tim allen, you don't realize that he was just testing you
00:36He's just testing to see if you get it so, you know
00:40I tim has just a really dark funny sense of humor and he make he makes me laugh because that's the way he was on set
00:46um, uh when we when we did last man standing and
00:50I I don't let him make fun of me. I don't care. I get it
00:52I have dummies. I have puppets. In fact, that was one of the jokes in the show because I was like
00:56Supposedly famous in the show again playing a version of myself. I can't remember the lines exactly but I go, uh
01:02I can't remember. I said, well, you know, i'm a comedian too and he goes. Yeah, well sort of
01:10And I was like that was great tim allen making fun of me, all right, nothing wrong with that