But for ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, the pain is self-inflicted, as he plays straight man to that trio and other puppets, including grumpy old man Walter and Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

My mother casually introduced me to the concept a few years ago. Maybe it was the influence of the Matthau/Lemmon film that was popular at the time, “Grumpy Old Men,” in which Walter and Jack ...

The star of Blind Summit’s “The Table,” presented by the University Musical Society, is a grumpy old man puppet, named Moses, whose head is made of cardboard. Not the most durable material ...