"I'm a geek to the bone," he says.ĭunham has nine vintage and custom cars on display including a 2009 Viper ACR and one of the three original Batmobiles used in the filming of Batman Returns, a modified 1934 Ford with his character Achmed in the grill. He also brings along a suite of Apple products - a 17-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPad, iPod and iPhone. He gets to the gigs via his outfitted bus, which includes a gym, three flat-panel TVs, a workshop where he repairs or builds dummies, and a video-editing station, where he works on concert DVDs. People will still pay dollars to come see live."ĭunham performs between 150 and 200 shows a year, grossing more than $12.5 million in 2011, according to Pollstar. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. It's made the world such a smaller place." It just shows you what technology has done. I thought it would be amazing to play foreign countries, and now we're doing that. Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. If YouTube hadn't come around, if that character (Achmed) hadn't come around…it all met at the perfect time, and that's when things started going bonkers. To get that much exposure on a worldwide basis had never happened that way. We met him at a warehouse in Los Angeles, where he houses his toys. The comic/ventriloquist is also a major tech geek, who collects Apple computers and cars, including the Batmobile used in the film Batman Returns. This week he'll appear in Wichita Falls, Texas Little Rock, Ark., and Springfield, Mo. Dunham says the videos help him sell out concerts.