Have you ever seen Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist, perform?
My daughter Megan introduced me to him about 15 years ago. Megan can recite any stand-up routine after hearing it once. Pretty handy to have her at the dinner table when you get one of those awkward silent stretches. (That is, unless one of her routines was the cause of that silence, but I digress.) Anyway, Dunham has multiple characters who “appear” with him during his act. I have found myself channeling Walter, a grumpy old man with a receding hairline and bushy eyebrows who wears a bow tie.
I mean, I have more hair than