Jose Jalapeno on a Stick is one of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's longest running characters, a jalapeno pepper puppet presented on a stick and wearing a sombrero. Dunham performed with the character in his stand up act for years before television specials in the mid 2000s brought him to a much larger audience. Clips of Jose's exchanges with Dunham circulated widely online as Dunham's specials became best sellers, and the character's distinctive accented delivery made short excerpts easy to recognize and reuse in edits, reaction videos and soundboards.