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The ringtone was taken from a puppet routine performed by Dunham, a native Texan, in a TV special on Comedy Central. Funnyman ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is fuming after a ringtone advertisement based on his popular comedy skit, "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," was scrubbed from South African TV because it mocks Islam.