Remember when Fox News accused The Muppets of being anti-oil? Well, at a press conference in the UK last week Kermit and Piggy decided to hit...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
I stumbled across this online while doing some research earlier this week; it's an excerpt from a CBC interview with Jim Henson taped on the set of Fraggle Rock in 1983....
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This is a nearly 50 year old film produced by Jim Henson that was recently rediscovered and released online by AT&T. Robot is one Jim Henson’s business films from the 1960s, it was shot in 1963 for an elite seminar organized for business owners on the then-brand-new topic of Data Communications. From the video’s YouTube...
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Tough Pigs recently sat down for an interview with Bonnie Erickson, a former head of the Muppet Workshop and currently the Executive Director of the Jim Henson...
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Have you heard? Fox Business thinks that The Muppets are communists. This has been all over the internet since the original segment aired on Fox Business last DATE. The fine folks at Funnyordie.com are having some fun with the story and just published a fan letter to Kermit the Frog from North Korea's "dear leader"...
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Remember how the Muppets said they were done with making parody trailers? They...
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Apologies for a lack of recent updates; as so often is the case, life and work conspired to keep me preoccupied last week, but here's a look at what was happening while I wasn't...
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The Muppets are invading WWE Raw tonight and fans of the Muppets and WWE Wrestling alike seem to be taking to the interwebs with vengeance to voice their disapproval....
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The Muppets take their parody trailer campaign to it's logical conclusion, while some minor controversy brews about their new...
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Constance Marks’ documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (see previous post) has been a huge hit on the film festival circuit. It’s won a number of accolades, including a special jury prize at Sundance and numerous audience awards at other festivals. The film explores Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash’s childhood fascination with puppetry and traces his...
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Quite possibly the best Muppet joke...
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Sesame Street's 42nd season is in full swing on PBS in the United...
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