Perhaps because of his burgeoning fame, or perhaps because he's done hundreds of shows and needs to switch things up for his own sanity, ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham has dropped the part of his act in which he explains what Peanut is.

But in previous routines, Peanut is described as a "Woozle," and he hails from a small island in Micronesia (a grouping of thousands of islands in the western Pacific Ocean).

Of course, he looks like nothing naturally occurring in Micronesia -- or anywhere else for that matter -- with his purple skin, white fur and small tuft of green hair. Peanut himself tells Dunham on stage that he must have been on drugs to come up with a puppet like Peanut.

Peanut is one of Dunham's oldest characters, along with cantankerous retiree Walter, and José the jalapeno ("on a steek"). Dunham only later came up with the others who now appear in his act, including arguably his most famous creation, Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

This team has carried Dunham to unprecedented levels of fame for a ventriloquist. His DVDs sell in the millions, and a video of Dunham's introduction of Achmed, from the 2007 "Spark of Insanity" special, was at one point the ninth most watched YouTube video of all time (his YouTube views, likely less exciting to Dunham than this DVD sales, are in the hundreds of millions).

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