EXCLUSIVE: Nacelle is partnering with comic and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham on a brand new eight-episode docuseries that takes viewers on a family-friendly journey by way of the historical past of a number of the most fun automobiles ever constructed.
Dunham can be joined by puppet mates like Peanut, Walter, and Bubba J, as he reveals the wealthy historical past of automobiles, beginning along with his private assortment consisting of over 130 collectible automobiles from around the globe. As an avid collector, Dunham’s information of vehicles is intensive and has granted him entry to the business’s greatest gamers. A few of the most sought-after gadgets, that are often loaned to museums just like the Petersen Automotive Museum, might be present in his storage. Vehicles lined on the collection vary from the gorgeous Corvette Stingray to the ill-fated Vector W8.
Along with internet hosting, Dunham will produce alongside Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson, Ian Mallahan, Benjamin J. Frost, Robert Hartmann, Matt McNeil, Steve Reich, and The Nacelle Firm. Mallahan (Sport Face, WWE Subsequent Gen) may also function showrunner for the collection, with the primary two episodes being directed by Nacelle’s founder and CEO, Volk-Weiss, who defined that Dunham is an ideal match for this present “as a result of he’s extremely keen about the subject material. Whenever you get to make a present about one thing you like, you’re in a manner making it from a fan-first perspective, which at all times shines by way of within the ultimate product.”
Said Dunham: “I’m approaching this present the identical was I do when creating materials for my stage performances. I would like it to be one thing fully totally different from each different automotive present, and every episode will go away the viewers eager to see the following one. Plus… I need to be sure we at all times have some surprises and twists that take the viewer off into the gravel!”
Final yr releasing two specials — Jeff Dunham: I’m With Cupid on Comedy Central and Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged-Up Vacation Particular on Prime Video — Dunham has carried out in additional than 20 international locations, seeing his greater than a dozen specials garner billions of views throughout all platforms. He holds the Guinness world document for probably the most tickets ever bought on a comedy tour and has crafted a various resume for himself in leisure, creating an animated movie for CMT, internet hosting the Meals Community’s Halloween Baking Championship, and showing in such movies and TV collection as 30 Rock, Sonny with a Likelihood, Final Man Standing, Dinner for Schmucks, and The Masked Singer.
Established in 2017, The Nacelle Firm is thought for its work on Netflix’s Emmy-winning docuseries Down To Earth with Zac Efron and the NAACP Picture award-nominated Kevin Hart’s Information To Black Historical past. Different notable credit embody Netflix’s The Films That Made Us, The Toys That Made Us, Behind the Attraction on Disney+, Sony’s Mad About You, Icons Unearthed on Vice TV, CW’s Discontinued, and Historical past’s Middle Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek.
Dunham is repped by CAA and Levity Reside.