Podcasts about Muppets Tonight

In this episode of Synergy Loves Company, host Eric explores the intriguing connections between Prince and Disney in the final installment of the eighties pop trinity trilogy. Dive into the Minneapolis music scene of the seventies that shaped Prince's musicianship and his perfectionist approach, drawing parallels to Walt Disney himself. Discover Prince's appearances on Muppets Tonight and his work with Warner Brothers, which sets the stage for unexpected ties to Disney. Eric delves into the history of Sunset Sound, a studio with both Disney and Prince history, exploring Bob Cavallo's transition from Prince's manager to a key figure in Disney's music division. Uncover how Powerline, from A Goofy Movie, is deeply connected to Prince through shared musicians and studios, and learn about Prince's favorite film, Finding Nemo. Join Eric as he connects the dots and finds the Disney connections in Prince's legacy. Thanks for enjoying Synergy Loves Company: How Disney Connects to Everything. https://www.synergylovescompany.com Donate to the show: https://ko-fi.com/synergylovescompany Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@synergylovescompany  Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricHSynergy  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/synergylovescompany  Instagram and Threads :https://www.instagram.com/synergylovescompany/Read transcript

On Episode 231 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, our guest is puppet designer and builder Paul Andrejco! Paul is best known for his countless contributions to The Muppets and The Jim Henson Company as a puppet designer and builder! He started out as a puppet designer and builder on The Muppet Christmas Carol and was in the Muppet Workshop for Muppet Classic Theater and Muppets Tonight. Most notably, Paul designed all the puppets for the series Bear in the Big Blue House and It's a Big Big World! He is also known for founding the puppet design company Puppet Heap, which is responsible for building and maintaining The Muppets characters. Through Puppet Heap, Paul designed Walter for The Muppets (2011) and Penny Waxman for The Muppets Mayhem.

Your favorite Hallmark podcast is back with a brand new fan-favorite request. Girls Gone Hallmark reviews the Hallmark Channel movie "Dater's Handbook," starring Meghan Markle and Kristoffer Polaha. What makes this movie a fan-favorite? Is it the love triangle storyline or the fire chemistry between the leads? And does the Duchess of Sussex deliver in her final film before marrying Prince Harry? Find out what Megan and Wendy think. Don't miss our reviews of "The Way Home." Girls Gone Hallmark drops a recap/review of the incredible second season every Wednesday. Start here with S2 Ep 1 Feeling Generous? We Need Your 5-STAR Ratings and Reviews Spotify Podcast listeners: Spotify allows listeners to rate podcast episodes. Once you listen to a podcast for at least 30 seconds, you get the option to rate it between one and five stars. Return to the podcast's main page and tap the star icon. Then, tap submit. Watch the Trailer from "Dater's Handbook" on Hallmark Channel About Hallmark Movie "Dater's Handbook" This movie originally premiered on January 30, 2016. "Dater's Handbook" was written by Jennifer Barrow and Rich Tabach. Jennifer Barrow currently has 10 writing credits. Her work includes "Dating the Delaneys," "Sun, Sand & Romance" and "Ms. Matched" for Hallmark. She's also written a few episodes of the animated series "King of the Hill" and 12 episodes of "Muppets Tonight." Rich Tabac has 8 writing credits which also include "Sun, Sand & Romance," "Ms. Matched" and 2022's "Love in the Limelight." Also noteworthy, Rich was a writer's assistant for several comedy series including "Just Shoot Me!" and "That '70s Show." James Head directed. He currently has 45 directing credits including Hallmark movies "Destination Wedding," "Campfire Kiss," "My Christmas Dream," and "Christmas Cookies" to name a few. He has directed a Hallmark movie since 2017 but recently worked on "Dragon Tales" - an animated adventure fantasy comedy film based on the animate series of the same name. Meghan Markle stars as Cass. This was Meghan's second and last film for the network. She had previously starred in the 2014 movie "When Sparks Fly." Outside of Hallmark, Markle appeared in 108 episodes of "Suits" as Rachel Zane and 34 episodes as a briefcase model on the game show "Deal or No Deal" back in 2006. She has since gone on to marry Prince Harry and no longer works as an actress. Related Podcast Episode: Megan and Wendy got absolutely roasted for their review of Kristoffer Polka's hair in "A Winning Team." Still love Kris, but not this look! Kristoffer Polaha stars as Robert. This was Kris' first movie for Hallmark Channel. He starred in "Hearts of Christmas" later the same year but we most recently saw him in "A Biltmore Christmas." Outside of Hallmark, he can be seen in "The Shift" and "Harlan Coben's Shelter." Jonathan Scarfe stars as George. Jonathan has a whopping 93 acting credits but this appears to be the last project he did with Hallmark. Of course we saw him in "Love On the Air" with Ali Sweeny back in 2015 and you can listen to our review of that anytime. Related Podcast Episode: Girls Gone Hallmark reviews "Love on the Air" - a stand out, fan-favorite movie starring Alison Sweeney and Jonathan Scarfe. Lynda Boyd plays Cass's mom. Talk about whopping, she's got 158 acting credits including "Christmas on Cherry Lane," "Sullivan's Crossing," "Virgin River," "An Unexpected Christmas" and so many more. According to WhatsFilming.ca, this movie was filmed in and around the Squamish area, including Tantalus Lookout and REVS Bowling in Maple Ridge. What's Coming to Girls Gone Hallmark in February?

In this episode of The DJ Bob Show, DJ Bob Runkel sits down with Paul Rudolph, the vocal music director on Sesame Street. Paul's career began as assistant music director on Muppets Tonight, where he met his wife, Muppet Performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph. He's also the founder of GLANK!, a percussion performance art ensemble. Join us for an inspiring conversation about music, Muppets, inclusion, and the magic of Sesame Street.

Me and David Ganssle continue making our way through the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist in alphabetical order. In this one, we briefly discuss Mr. Magorium's Goddamn Wonder Emporium, Muppet Classic Theater, two vintage episodes of The Muppet Show, The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Muppets Tonight, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, My Date with the President's Daughter and The North Avenue Irregulars. Request lines are now open! Now's your chance to submit your request for PATREON REQUEST MONTH 2023! https://www.patreon.com/posts/august-will-be-85381700 

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Leslie Carrara-Rudolph! Leslie's career in puppetry began on Muppets Tonight, performing the role of Spamela Hamderson and various other characters. Leslie's best known for her contributions to Sesame Street as the performer of Abby Cadabby, Velvet, Penelope Penguin and most recently, Tango. Some of her other puppeteering roles include Ginger on Johnny and the Sprites, Edi the Zebra on Animal Jam, various characters on The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Koko the Penguin in Panwapa, Bubbles in Splash and Bubbles, Dodie Hodie in Donkey Hodie, her very own character Lolly Lardpop and tons more! Leslie is also a voice actress and has lent her voice to various characters in the revival of The Electric Company, Peg Puppy on T.U.F.F. Puppy and several roles on Nature Cat. Together, they discuss Sesame Street's outreach initiative, working with Billy Porter, co-creating the production company Humor with a Heart and many more! This interview also marks co-host Matt Bingel's 100th episode of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show!

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Paul Rudolph! Paul's longtime career with the Muppets began as assistant music director for ABC's Muppets Tonight, where he met his wife, Muppet performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph! Since 2008, Paul has had the great pleasure of being the vocal music director and vocal arranger for the beloved Sesame Street franchise! Paul is also the founder of the percussion performance art ensemble, GLANK! Together, they discuss favorite celebrities to work with, music-directing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performances, working with the Saturday Night Live cast members on Nature Cat and many more!

We're talking about Minutes 69-70 of The Muppet Christmas Carol, in which unsavory characters sift through a dead man's belongings. With special guest David Levy of the Muppeturgy podcast! PLUS: Things go from bad to worse! Why doesn't Old Joe have a Muppety voice? Jackie Gleason influences Muppets Tonight! Who do we ship Old Joe with? Why isn't Clifford in this movie? And the world's first Johnny Fiama fan site! ALSO: Read Anthony's ranking of all the Disney Animation movies on Letterboxd! ALSO: Read Bright Wall Dark Room's Tribute to The Muppet Christmas Carol! Hosted by Anthony Strand & Ryan Roe Guest David Levy Produced & Edited by Ryan Roe Logo by Morgan Davy Movin' Right Along: A Muppet Movie Podcast is available at ToughPigs.com or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Anchor, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict, or wherever you get podcasts!

Mike Gormley Presents...Doug Legacy! Doug Legacy is a musician and one of the founding members of the Zydeco Party Band. He has puppeteered background characters on Muppets Tonight and his band was featured as the house band for the show (with Legacy playing accordion). Doug is also known for The Bucket List (2007), Gilmore Girls (2000), and Muppets Tonight (1996). Doug wound up in Los Angeles in 1977 where he immediately won the Gong Show playing steel drums. He then went on to play them with Rod Stewart (a significant vocal influence on Doug), where he met Jimmy Z, playing great blues harp and tenor sax on this album. Jimmy Z went on to play with Jeff Beck and the Eurythmics. Doug had the honor to back up Paul McCartney on background vocals and accordion. He also sang for Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren and Oingo Boingo. Oingo Boingo bassist John Avila plays on the first track of this album. Doug founded the Zydeco Party Band over 20 years ago and has released several albums. King Cake Party (1990) was produced by Jim Keltner and Freebo and had guest artists Ry Cooder and David Lyndley on it. It was released on Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe's label Demon in Europe and Japan. Doug also made an album with the Oingo Boingo band in 1996 called Doug and the Mystics “New Hat” released in Europe on Colosseum Records. Doug has worked on many projects with Van Dyke Parks as a musician and engineer. Van Dyke introduced Doug to Grant Geissman who plays great guitar on this project. Long-time friend and collaborator Gary Ferguson play solid drums and percussion. Gary has played for artists such as John Hiatt and Eddy Money. Dave Eastly has been the 1st chair bassist for the Zydeco Party Band for the last five years. He also leads his own big band and has been a multi-instrumentalist at Disneyland for over twenty years! https://zydecopartyband.com

Patric Verrone and I discuss his influences: Chuck McCann, Sonny Fox, Officer Joe Bolton and Jim Henson; Steve Martin; Carl Gottlieb; growing up in Ft. Myers, Florida; going to Harvard with Al Jean; his Lampoon competition packet; working with Andy & Susan Borowitz, Conan O'Brien, and future wife Maiya Williams on the Lampoon; becoming a lawyer; taking a leave of absence to try comedy writing; getting a job on the Late Show with Joan Rivers; rough times on the show; Victoria Principal doxing; leaving Joan Rivers and getting hired on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson; his interview with Johnny; writing sketch and monologue; Sunday morning meetings with Johnny; new characters created; Johnny wanted to dress up less; Carnac moments; The Critic; Doris Grau, Critic / Simpsons crossover; second crossover nixed; writing for the Muppets; the "new" Kermit; his idea of having other puppeteers work on characters and then having Frank Oz dub his voice in; the new puppet, Clifford; working with Dick Blasucci and Paul Flaherty; working with Martin Short, Don Rickles, Billy Crystal and Prince on Muppets Tonight; winning an Emmy and it having it bestowed by Barbara Billingsley; getting hired on Futurama; Cubert Farnsworth; "Problem with Popplers"; no lessons, just jokes; one of my jokes is similar to one in an episode; list jokes; "A Leela of Her Own"; explaining to Hank Aaron his dialogue; writing a Simpsons episode; being President of the Writer's Guild; net neutrality; visiting all fifty states; collecting the Marks Presidential Figurine Set and completing it himself;

Do you feel that chill in the air? This holiday season, When We Were Young's listeners will be visited by three all-knowing spirits who serve as guides through the past, present, and future of all things Muppet. Our last episode chronicled the humble beginnings of Kermit and company through their rise to global superstardom with The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie in the late 70s. In this episode Chris, Becky, and Seth discuss their youthful memories of more recent Muppets exploits like the original MUPPET BABIES cartoon of the 80s, the MUPPETS TONIGHT primetime series that aired on TGIF in the 90s, and a star-studded pop album called KERMIT UNPIGGED that at least one of our hosts cherished. Next we revisit the Muppets' musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic ghost story in 1992's THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, which stars a pitch perfect Michael Caine as yuletide-loathing miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and a bunch of puppets as Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, the Marleys, and even the author himself. Then we are confronted by the present and future of Jim Henson's beloved creations since the Muppets were officially taken over by Disney in the early 2000s. Does The Muppet Christmas Carol still warm our hearts and send us out into the snowy streets to pass out savvy pop culture critiques to the needy? Or have the years turned us into cold, cruel Scrooges ready to say, “Bah, humbug!” to this Disneyfied departure from the Muppets' scrappy roots? Celebrate the 30th anniversary of this furry, funny holiday classic with When We Were Young! Follow When We Were Young on Twitter and Instagram at @WWWYshow, on Facebook at Facebook.com/WWWYShow and email episode suggestions to wwwyshow@gmail.com. Don't forget to subscribe and review us on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts (or wherever you get your podcasts) so more folks check out the show! Help us defray the costs of creating this show, which include recording remotely, purchasing movies/shows/music to review, delivery food to eat our feelings, and producing & editing in-house at the MFP Studio in Los Angeles, California by donating to our Patreon account at patreon.com/WhenWeWereYoung

Allan Trautman is an actor and puppeteer, best known for his work with The Jim Henson Company.Allan began his performing career as an actor, noted for his portrayal of Tarman in the cult classics Return of the Living Dead: Parts One and Two. He went on to puppeteer in such features as Muppets from Space, Cats & Dogs, Babe and Dr. Dolittle (for which he was also performance coordinator). His television puppeteering credits include The Letter People, Greg the Bunny, Unhappily Ever After, Kid-a-Littles, Crank Yankers, Muppets Tonight and Dinosaurs.In addition to his Muppet credits, Trautman has performed in several Henson Alternative projects, including The Happytime Murders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're talking about Minutes 13-14 of The Muppet Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge is not amused by nephew Fred and Bunsen & Beaker ask for money. With special guest Patrick Cotnoir of The George Lucas Talk Show! PLUS: Fond memories of Mercer Mayer books! Rats entertain us when we pause the Blu-ray! So many Steve & Dave duos! How long did Queen Victoria reign? A very controversial Muppet movie ranking! And who invented wreaths? ALSO: GLTS Steve Whitmire? ALSO: Watch the George Lucas Talk Show's Muppets Tonight marathon on YouTube! Hosted by Anthony Strand & Ryan Roe Guest Patrick Cotnoir Produced & Edited by Ryan Roe Logo by Morgan Davy

http://www.UnderThePuppet.com - Greg Ballora is a puppeteer and builder who has had an incredible career in the business starting out working on projects such as Timmy the Tooth, Muppets Tonight, and Spider-Man 2 through to today working on shows like Earth to Ned and Ratched.  Greg has also trained new puppeteers at the Disney Parks so there is a lot of great puppetry advice in the discussion ahead. Also, this month you can win a Monkey Boys Productions FLICK Beginner Puppet Building Kit!  Listen to find out how to enter. Transcript of this interview is available to the Saturday Morning Media Patreon Patrons! CONNECT WITH GREG BALLORA: Instagram - https://instagram.com/gregballora DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Magpie Time - https://vimeo.com/2050758 Bob Hartman - http://hartmanpuppetry.com  Lisa Sturz - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836456/ Len Levitt - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506229/ Marty Krofft - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2020/01/utp-36/ DC Follies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._Follies Jim Gamble - http://www.jimgamble.com Gremlins 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins_2:_The_New_Batch Robocop 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_2 Batman Returns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Returns Men in Black II - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_II Spider-Man 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2 Timmy the Tooth - https://youtu.be/bi6eA-W_C4Y Phil Baron - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Baron Allan Trautman - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/09/utp-007/ Michael Earl - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Earl_(puppeteer) Bruce Lanoil - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/12/utp-010/ James Murray - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615015/ Alef Bet Blastoff - https://youtu.be/dcrE7sx25jI Muppets Tonight - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppets_Tonight Kevin Clash - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2020/10/utp-52/ Brian Henson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Henson The Mr. Potato Head - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mr._Potato_Head_Show Kevin Carlson - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/11/utp-009/ Michelle Zamora - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2021/06/utp-60/ Team America: World Police - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police Bill Baird - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Baird Peter Baird - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baird Thom Fountain - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/07/utp-005/ Chiodo Brothers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chiodo_Brothers Tim Lagasse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Lagasse Crash & Bernstein - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_&_Bernstein Christine Papalexis - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2018/05/utp-16/ Ratched - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratched_(TV_series) Ratched Clip (trigger warning) - https://youtu.be/IgTvmeSdShg Earth to Ned - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_to_Ned Donna Kimball - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/06/utp-004/ Raymond Carr - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2020/02/utp-37/ Mr. World Commercial - https://youtu.be/22Vkdfxwfco CLIPS HEARD ON THIS EPISODE: Spider-Man 2 - https://youtu.be/P6mkjW5rAmU Mr. Potato Head Show - https://youtu.be/JbrEsZGwIGw CONNECT WITH THE SHOW http://www.instagram.com/underthepuppet http://www.twitter.com/underthepuppet CONNECT WITH GRANT http://www.MrGrant.comhttp://www.twitter.com/toasterboy https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ Art by Parker Jacobs Music by Dan Ring Edited by Stephen Staver Help us make more shows like this one.  Become a patron of Saturday Morning Media and get cool rewards!  Visit www.patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia for info! ©2021 Saturday Morning Media - http://www.saturdaymorningmedia.com

On this repeat episode of Below the Frame, Matt sits down with Sesame Street Muppet Performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (Abby Cadabby). They talk about Carol Burnett, Muppets Tonight, and how resilience is part of her life's journey. Carmen Osbahr (Rosita) shares her memory of late Muppet Performer Jerry Nelson and reads one of his stories. Plus, we hear Mr. Nelson performing one of his very own Jerry Stories.Leslie's Website: https://www.lesliecarrara-rudolph.com

On this episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome Actress, Muppet performer, voice actress, Julianne Buescher AND puppeteer Alice Dinnean.   ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Julianne Buescher Julianne Buescher is a whimsically versatile, classically trained actor, voice-over artist and Muppet Performer…whose new Muppet character Beverly Plume can be seen in “Muppets Now!” on Disney+! Follow Julianne on IG at @juliannebuescher and see all her credits at IMDb.me/juliannebuescher   Alice Dinnean Alice Dinnean interned at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA. Alice has performed in several Muppet/Henson productions, such as Sesame Street, Muppets Tonight, Muppets Take the Bowl, and non-Muppet projects like Men in Black II, Crank Yankers, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Jim Lewis Show Notes On this episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome Emmy Award-winning writer/producer, Jim Lewis to discuss his decades of work with The Muppets, The Jim Henson Company, and much more.   ABOUT OUR GUEST: Jim Lewis JIM LEWIS is an Emmy Award-winning writer/producer, who has been writing for frogs, pigs and other Muppets since 1985, where he worked with the late Jim Henson.   At The Jim Henson Company and later at The Walt Disney Company, Jim Lewis has written for, produced, consulted on and otherwise aided and abetted Muppet ventures in television and movies (e.g. Muppets Tonight!, A Very Merry Muppet Christmas) , theme parks (e.g. MuppetVision 3D, Great Moments In History…But Mostly America), as well as consumer products, live performances (e.g. The Muppets Take The Hollywood Bowl, The Muppets The O2) and media appearances, public relations and marketing. He has ghostwritten books for Kermit the Frog (“Look Before You Leap”), Miss Piggy (“The Diva Code”) and Pepe the King Prawn (“It's Hard Out Here For a Shrimp”). He also developed and wrote a Muppet feature script with Frank Oz, “The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever”. He still believes this should be the next Muppet theatrical feature. In addition to his Muppet work, Jim was also executive producer of the Hallmark Channel series Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola, wrote the theater production G2K R&H: Getting To Know Rodgers & Hammerstein for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, has penned scripts for VeggieTales, Sid The Science Kid, Barney & Friends, etc, Las Vegas ventriloquist/impressionist Terry Fator, as well as done comedy “punch up” on Disney Executives (which is more fun than you can imagine). Prior to purveying mirth and myth, Lewis was a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and worked at Lewis & Carey, his family's New Jersey funeral home.  This explains a lot. Jim lives in Burbank, California with his wife, Judy, and son Danny. His daughter Mary Grace is at UC Berkeley and currently has green hair. No doubt a vestige of her living with a parent who has spent his life writing for a frog.  

The Blasucci Family Show Notes   On this episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome Writer/Producer, Dick Blasucci. Writer/Producer Anthony Blasucci. And Writer/Producer, Actress, Maria Blasucci, to discuss their work on shows like Family Guy, SCTV, Muppets Tonight, Ghost Ghirls, and Drunk History, just to name a few.   ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Dick Blasucci Dick Blasucci began his career writing for “SCTV” the NBC late night sketch comedy show. While on SCTV he won two Emmy Awards for Best Writing and was nominated nine times. Other writing and producing credits include: “MadTV” “The Larry Sanders Show” “Tracey Ullman Show” comedy specials for HBO including “I, Martin Short Goes Hollywood” “Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started” and “Muppets Tonight” which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program. He is currently writing and producing the SCTV Anniversary Special for Netflix and teaching classes in sketch comedy writing at Pepperdine University and the Harold Ramis Film School at The Second City in Chicago.   Anthony Blasucci Anthony is an Executive Producer, Writer, and Story Editor on Family Guy   Maria Blasucci Maria Blasucci is an actor, producer, and comedy writer. She is best known for her roles on shows such as HBO's Family Tree and Ghost Ghirls on Yahoo Screen. She was an associate producer on the 2016 film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. She currently stars in the Comedy Central series Drunk History and can also be seen on Netflix in the films Mascots and Patchwork. She and Amanda Lund co-host the weekly podcast The Big Ones and is the co-founder of the podcast network, Earios.

This week Jarrod surprises Joe with the personification of delight herself, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph! Leslie has worked on a myriad of Muppet/Henson projects over the years, like Muppets Tonight, Wubbulous World of Doctor Suess, and Animal Jam, and has played Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street since 2006! Aside from that, Leslie has worked on shows like The Simpsons and Nature Cat, and (when she can) does live shows with her sock puppet Lolly Lardpop, which reguarly garners great acclaim! Listen as we discuss disastrous auditions, having moments with Paula Pell, letters to Whoopi Goldberg, and we finally find out a little more about what the heck that America's Next Muppet pilot from 2005 was. Plus, Leslie's husband and Sesame composer Paul Rudolph makes the worst cameo ever, and cooks a full meal in the background. And, as always, a heck of a lot more.

Hosts Dave Bossert and Aljon Go welcome Muppeteer/Actor, Bruce Lanoil. Master Puppeteer Tony Urbano chose Bruce from hundreds, for Sid and Marty Krofft's exclusive 1980 workshop. Many Commercials, McNuggets (1980's), followed, furthering performance skills with Master teachers, Paul Sills, Avery Schreiber, (Spollin Games), Harvey Kalmanson (V.O.). Destiny and Jim Henson came knocking when Brian Henson cast Bruce as “Charlene Sinclair”, in TV's DINOSAURS for five glorious seasons on ABC/Disney (1990-93). Animatronics and Facial Puppeteering was a specialty as Bruce traveled the world complements of the incomparable Jim Henson Creature Shop, both in Films, Dr. Doolittle (1998), Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Jack Frost (1998), Cats and Dogs 1 & 2, (2001 2010) and Television, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss as The Cat in the Hat, Nickelodeon Season one (1996). Bruce helped pioneer Real-time CG animation with Henson's HDPS-Digital Puppetry System, Are We There Yet (2005), Francis (2008), Sid the Science Kid Movie (2012) and partnered with Dave Barclay Studios Where the Wild Thing Are (2009), and Ice King (2017). Muppet madness included MuppetVision 3D (1991), The Muppets Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2016), The O2 (2018), recent FEATURE FILM/TV reboots, The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Muppets Tonight (1996), Muppets (2017). Live-action Reference Puppetry, Mon- keyBone (2001) Henry Selick Dir., and Looney Tunes-Back in Action (2003) Joe Dante Dir., and numerous V.O. gigs, including voicing Lion King's TIMON (SAFETY SMART! video series) for Disney. Pre-order a signed copy of Dave's new book - Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer—The Making of Disneyland: From Toad Hall to the Haunted Mansion and Beyond - CLAUDE COATS IMAGINEER (theoldmillpress.com) Visit Skull Rock Podcast | Facebook. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: aljon@skullrockpodcast.com | dave@skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk. *Source Wikipedia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/skullrockpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/skullrockpodcast/support

On this episode, The Barretta Brothers celebrate the TV show Dinosaurs and welcome the people behind the characters, Charlene, Robbie, Baby, and BP Richfield.   Episode Outline:   03:15mins: Conversation about the character Robbie Sinclair. Day Murch, Steve Whitmire, Leif Tilden, and Lisa Rocco join Gene & Bill.   25:27mins: Conversation about the character BP Richfield. Jane Gootnick joins Day, Steve, and Leif.   40:30mins: Conversation about the character Charlene. Bruce Lanoil, MIchelan Sisti, and Jill Thraves join Gene & Bill.   1:07:00mins: Conversation about Baby Sinclair. Kevin Clash, Terri Hardin, John Kennedy, and Jane Gootnick join Gene & Bill.   ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Jane Gootnick With college degrees in both acting and set design Jane first moved to Europe working in Belgium and London. In the mid-70's she moved to NYC working with alternative theatre groups (LaMama, Joe Papp's Public Theatre). Jane became head sculptor at Brooks Van Horn Costume Co. making props, masks and creatures for a large variety of venues: Broadway shows (Sweeney Todd, Dracula, Peter Pan), feature films (The Wiz, Hair), Warner Bros walkarounds, commercials, Ringling Bros Circus, and the first four seasons of Saturday Night Live. In 1978, the costume designer for SNL mentioned that the Jim Henson Company was looking for sculptors for a film called The Dark Crystal and suggested she interview. Jane was offered three weeks work to build a prototype support harness for the Skeksis they were developing. So, she left her three-year full-time job for three weeks of work at Henson's and stayed 40 years! Jane has worked in both the New York puppet shop and the London Creature Shop throughout the years. Designing/building puppets and creatures, supervising builds, and running workshops on location for Muppet/Henson films and TV series, (Dark Crystal, Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, The Storyteller, The Witches, Ninja Turtles, Dinosaurs, Muppets Tonight, The Muppets, etc.). She has also worked on a variety of talk shows, game shows, and awards shows (Oscars, Grammys, Hollywood Bowl and many more). Jane is an art director for print and media photoshoots, film posters and endless fashion shoots with Miss Piggy with Louis Vuitton, Prada and other diva designers.   Steve Whitmire Jim Henson invited Steve Whitmire to join his team in 1978 during the height of the popularity of The Muppet Show, and Whitmire had a hand in virtually every Muppet project for nearly four decades. He originated such characters as Rizzo the Rat, Lips the Trumpet Man, Miss Piggy's dog Foo-Foo, and Bean Bunny, and also sustained Richard Hunt's characters, the hapless lab assistant Beaker and codger Statler after Hunt's death in 1992. Upon Henson's death in 1990, Whitmire accepted the duty for the continuation of several of Jim's characters and is best known for his 24-years as Ernie and his 27-years as Kermit the Frog. Projects include Sesame Street and non-Muppet films such as The Dark Crystal, The Witches, Dreamchild and Labyrinth, as well as the popular sitcom Dinosaurs and the classic 1980's television series Fraggle Rock in which Whitmire originated Wembley Fraggle and Sprocket the Dog. After 19 films, 8 television series, numerous specials, multiple sound recordings, and volumes of unique live appearances, Whitmire carries forth the essential principles of the lineage as the foundation for a progressive approach to the art of puppetry in today's world and looks forward to sharing that spirit in his future endeavors. www.stevewhitmire.website   Leif Tilden Leif Tilden watched his mother drink herself into a deep depression while living with her in Berkeley California during the late 60's free love movement.   After her suicide he moved to Boston Massachusetts where he grew up in a segregated environment where the Irish, Italian and black neighborhoods beat each other up daily. Eventually he would find himself studying experimental theatre in New York City where he discovered his vulnerability through movement and the incredible falafel sandwich. Soon after that, which to him seems like a dream, he found himself inside the soul of a Teenage mutant ninja turtle.  Life was good. Soon after that he drove across country for a minimum wage job on a tv show entitled, Dinosaurs for Disney.  Life was not good and Leif will explain the details as to why on the show.   Day Murch Day worked in the theatre for many years, as a performer in Liquid Theatre, with Stomu Yamashtas Red Buddha Theatre, and the Young Vic, with appearances in provincial rep and the West End, gradually commuting a hobby of designing and making clothes into a career. An early introduction on Time Bandits to the Monty Python team led to a specialist interest in the care and presentation of difficult costumes, with work on The Meaning Of Life, Greystoke, Legend and Fifth Element and several projects for Jim Hensons London Creature Shop. This led in time to making this type of costume and he headed the Fabrication Unit for Nick Dudmans Department of Magical Creatures for the initial Harry Potter Movies, building Hagrid and other fantasticals. In children's television he helped create characters for In The Night Garden , BoohBahs and Zingzillas. He enjoyed a longterm association with the Batman franchise as Batsuit Wrangler with all the Caped Crusaders except Adam West! Now happily retired with his life partner in Wales, he doesn't miss show business.   Bruce Lanoil Bruce ”B” Lanoil, spawned in Brooklyn N.Y., raised on steady diet of Saturday morning Cartoons, Sugary cereals, Mad Magazines, Jerry Lewis and Classic Star Trek, is today, a proud and grateful 30 year veteran Muppeteer,.. Oh, the beaten path was never in the mix! As a Theater major at Cal State Northridge, a vaudevillian improvisational clown at heart, fate truly lent a “hand” when Master Puppeteer Tony Urbano chose Bruce from hundreds, for Sid and Marty Krofft's exclusive 1980 workshop. Many Commercials and videos followed, furthering his performance skills with Master teachers, Paul Sills, Avery Schreiber, (Spollin Theater Games), and Harvey Kalmanson (V.O.). Destiny and Jim Henson came knocking when Brian Henson cast Bruce as “Charlene Sinclair”, in TV's DINOSAURS for five glorious seasons on ABC/Disney (1990-93). Animatronics and Facial Puppeteering was a specialty as Bruce traveled the world complements of the incomparable Jim Henson Creature Shop, both in Films, Dr. Doolittle (1998), Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Jack Frost (1998), Cats and Dogs 1 & 2, (2001 2010) and Television, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss as The Cat in the Hat, Nickelodeon Season one (1996). Bruce helped pioneer Real-time CG animation with Henson's HDPS-Digital Puppetry System, Are We There Yet (2005), Francis (2008), Sid the Science Kid Movie (2012) and partnered with Dave Barclay Studios Where the Wild Thing Are (2009), and Ice King (2017). Muppet madness included MuppetVision 3D (1991),The Muppets Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2016),The O2 (2018), recent FEATURE FILM/TV reboots, The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Muppets Tonight (1996), Muppets (2017). Live-action Reference Puppetry, Mon- keyBone (2001) Henry Selick Dir.,and Looney Tunes-Back in Action (2003) Joe Dante Dir., and nu- merous V.O. gigs, including voicing Lion King's TIMON (SAFTY SMART! video series) for Disney. Bruce is extremely grateful for lifetime of collaborative joy and laughter, and believes, that Everyone deserves to give themselves the Inner Permission to pursue their truth and passion freely, with an open heart. As a Teaching Artist, his quest is to release fear and doubt, allowing each learner and Artist the opportunity to connect, to share, to Soar! We stand upon the shoulders of all creative souls before us, that enables every single voice to tell Their story, their version, of life's unpredictable magnificent journey, while illuminating all our lives with the Magical Gift of Play :)   Michelan Sisti Michelan began his performing journey as a musician, then an actor with multiple Broadway roles, which directly led to him becoming a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle in the original live action movies (Michelangelo).  Being Mikey, evolved into our ultimate animatronics show, “Dinosaurs”.  The coolest suit show EVER!  Since then, Mich has enjoyed 26 more years of Muppets and other neat things with puppets and motion capture.  He has loved every minute of the trip.   Jill Thraves After growing up in the countryside of Yorkshire and Derbyshire I moved to London to attend University. Got my degree in French and went straight into making clothes and cotumes for dancers, musicians, strippers, and royalty. Bill Wyman, David Bowie, Freddy Mercury, Jimmy Page, Princess Margaret, were some of the people I dressed. Through friends I started working in films and tv., Time Bandits, The Meaning of Life and Labyrinth were early jobs. Labyrinth led to Mother Goose Stories and an Emmy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and then Dinosaurs! So after 20 years I in London I came to Los Angeles. Since then I have worked on a lot of Superhero films, from Batman to Avengers and Guardians. I seem to have made a lot of capes! Batman to Thor and many in between.  

On this episode, The Barretta Brothers celebrate the TV show Dinosaurs and welcome the people behind the Unisaurus and Hand Puppet Characters.   Episode Outline: 07:200mins: Conversation with Julianne Buescher, Michelan Sisti, John Kennedy, Rickey Boyd, and Jake Tate   33:30mins: Conversation with Julianne Buescher, Michelan Sisti, John Kennedy, Rickey Boyd, Jake Tate, Bruce Lanoli, Pons Maar, and Terri Hardin   35:50mins: Conversation with Allan Trautman, Terri Hardin, Bruce Lanoil, Tom Fisher, and Pons Maar.   ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Allan Trautman Allan Trautman was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Miami Beach with his family at the beginning of 9th grade. He began acting in Miami Beach Senior High under the direction of famed drama teacher Jay Jensen. He spent four years in St. Louis at Washington University, earning a BA in Physics and Drama. He then earned an MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts, where he met his wife, Diane. While in St. Louis, he began his puppetry career working on The Letter People at public TV station KETC. He performed in all 60 15-minute episodes, each one shot on a Friday (he skipped classes). Two years after graduating from CalArts, while working full-time at Leo's Stereo in the San Fernando Valley, a friend told him about an audition notice for a “puppet school” sponsored by Sid and Marty Krofft. Allan spent the summer of 1980 at what were a series of workshops under the direction of Tony Urbano. There he met other young puppeteers who all became lifelong friends—Bruce Lanoil, Kevin Carlson, Tim Blaney, and others. Much of the 1980s were spent working on projects for the Kroffts and for Dave Pavelonis and his Peppercorn Productions, as well as pursuing his acting career. During this time he was sent on an audition for Return of the Living Dead, and was cast as the Tarman, who went on to become an iconic zombie film character—among the first to ask specifically for “Brains!” In 1990, as part of the then-pending purchase of The Muppets by the Walt Disney Company, Jim Henson came to Los Angeles to direct Muppetvision 3-D, an attraction for Disney's theme parks. Again, a friend was able to get Allan into the audition, and this was the beginning of Allan's career with The Jim Henson Company and the Muppets. In 1991 Allan joined the cast of the ABC-TV series Dinosaurs as the animatronic puppeteer for Fran Sinclair. That show remained in production for 65 episodes, until the end of 1993, introducing Allan to sophisticated animatronics. This experience continued with movies like Babe, Men in Black, Doctor Dolittle, Jack Frost, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Monkeybone, Cats and Dogs, Men in Black II, and The Country Bears. After Dinosaurs, two producers on that show requested his presence on their next show, Unhappily Ever After, a sitcom on the brand-new WB Network. Allan puppeteered Mr. Floppy, the lead character's wise-cracking (imaginary) talking bunny, voiced in front of a live audience by Bobcat Goldthwaite. In the meantime, Allan's work with The Muppets included videos such as It's Not Easy Being Green and Muppet Classic Theatre, the movie Muppets from Space, and, for TV, Muppets Tonight, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. In the summer of 2005, Allan became a founding member of Puppet Up!—Uncensored, Henson Alternative's puppet/improv show. He performed in the show off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, on tour throughout the U.S., and on the historic Chaplin Stage on The Jim Henson Company lot. He also acted as puppetry technique instructor. He was one of three on-set puppeteers during production of The Jungle Book (2016), and was a core puppeteer on The Happytime Murders. Allan continues to work in physical as well as digital puppetry, in shows such as Splash and Bubbles for PBS Kids, and has moved into directing for that show and others. Julianne Buescher  Julianne Buescher is a whimsically versatile, classically trained actor, voice-over artist and Muppet Performer…whose new Muppet character Beverly Plume can be seen in “Muppets Now!” On Disney+! Follow Julianne on IG at @juliannebuescher and see all her credits at IMDb.me/juliannebuescher Jake Tate Jack Tate is an actor/puppeteer/voiceover guy. Mostly, he's retired, but he'd work if someone asked.  He was in movies: The Right Stuff, Monster in the Closet, Interview with an Assassin and many others. On TV, he did a lot of day-player roles: Fresh Prince, Frazier, Hotel, Murder She Wrote and many others, before he landed on Dinosaurs, as a regular player, a Unisaur, appearing as many of the characters interacting with the family. Another show he was a regular on later, was The Journey of Allen Strange, for Nickelodeon. He was more successful in commercials than TV or movies, doing pretty near 1000 of them, many as a spokesman for AT&T, Pepsi, Bud Light, Ford Mercury and played, for 20+ years, the character Jack in the Box. Dinosaurs was easily his career favorite. Michelan Sisti Michelan began his performing journey as a musician, then an actor with multiple Broadway roles, which directly led to him becoming a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle in the original live action movies (Michelangelo).  Being Mikey, evolved into our ultimate animatronics show, “Dinosaurs”.  The coolest suit show EVER!  Since then, Mich has enjoyed 26 more years of Muppets and other neat things with puppets and motion capture.  He has loved every minute of the trip. Rickey Boyd Rickey's interest in animation and puppetry began at an early age. At eleven, he and one of his friends produced their own crude TV puppet shows at a local cable access station and experimented with 8mm animated short films. During High School he continued designing and building his own puppet characters. Later, he attended Shorter College in Rome, Georgia where he majored in art and theater. During an internship at a local cable station he worked with college classmates Keith Thomas and Jeff Brown to produce two children's shows that featured his creations. This provided valuable monitor experience as well as enough footage for a demo reel. That reel would land him an audition with the Muppets. In 1988 he was interviewed by Jane Henson then met and auditioned for Jim Henson himself. He was asked to continue working with Jim Henson Productions as both an assistant and as a featured performer on various productions. He went on to performed various background characters on Sesame Street, The Abby in Wonderland special, Grandma Cookie Monster for Sesame Workshop's “Sesame Beginnings” project, Scooter and Crazy Harry in “Muppet's Wizard of Oz”, and Waffle in “Animal Jam”. Other projects include “Muppets From Space”, “Dinosaurs” the series, “Muppetvision 3D”, “Muppets at Disney World”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, The Jim Henson Hour's “Dog City” and “Song of the Cloud Forest”. Aside from  Henson Productions, Rickey has performed lead characters for The Nashville Network's Peppercorn Productions. Most recently he continues to puppeteer as Doug the Slug in “The Slugs and Bugs Show” for RightNow Media, and as “George” in the web series “Wondermore” for In Touch Ministries. In addition to performing Rickey is an Emmy winning Creative Director for Magnetic Dreams Animation Studios in Nashville, Tn. There, he designs and directs animations for clients such as “Sesame Street”, among others. He lives outside Nashville with his wife Judy and their children Emily and Andrew. John E. Kennedy John E. Kennedy is a lifelong puppeteer who began performing at age three and met and worked with Jim Henson at the age of 22.  He has been a member of Sesame Street since 1994, and currently performs The Amazing Mumford, a character originated by Jerry Nelson. John has also been a Muppet™ performer on projects such as Muppets From Space, The Muppets Wizard of Oz, The Muppets Take the Bowl, and The Muppets Take the O2. He has authored two puppet-making books (Puppet Mania and Puppet Planet), and has been a puppet captain, a choreographer, and a musician.   As a puppet builder, Kennedy has represented Jim Henson's exhibits around the world with his puppet kits; he has also instructed young puppeteers on cruises, camps, and festivals.  He lives in Ocoee, Florida with his wife, Julie, and creates custom puppet characters for theme parks and performs music with his band, Johnny K Band. Bruce Lanoil Bruce ”B” Lanoil, spawned in Brooklyn N.Y., raised on steady diet of Saturday morning Cartoons, Sugary cereals, Mad Magazines, Jerry Lewis and Classic Star Trek, is today, a proud and grateful 30 year veteran Muppeteer,.. Oh, the beaten path was never in the mix! As a Theater major at Cal State Northridge, a vaudevillian improvisational clown at heart, fate truly lent a “hand” when Master Puppeteer Tony Urbano chose Bruce from hundreds, for Sid and Marty Krofft's exclusive 1980 workshop. Many Commercials and videos followed, furthering his performance skills with Master teachers, Paul Sills, Avery Schreiber, (Spollin Theater Games), and Harvey Kalmanson (V.O.). Destiny and Jim Henson came knocking when Brian Henson cast Bruce as “Charlene Sinclair”, in TV's DINOSAURS for five glorious seasons on ABC/Disney (1990-93). Animatronics and Facial Puppeteering was a specialty as Bruce traveled the world complements of the incomparable Jim Henson Creature Shop, both in Films, Dr. Doolittle (1998), Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Jack Frost (1998), Cats and Dogs 1 & 2, (2001 2010) and Television, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss as The Cat in the Hat, Nickelodeon Season one (1996). Bruce helped pioneer Real-time CG animation with Henson's HDPS-Digital Puppetry System, Are We There Yet (2005), Francis (2008), Sid the Science Kid Movie (2012) and partnered with Dave Barclay Studios Where the Wild Thing Are (2009), and Ice King (2017). Muppet madness included MuppetVision 3D (1991),The Muppets Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2016),The O2 (2018), recent FEATURE FILM/TV reboots, The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Muppets Tonight (1996), Muppets (2017). Live-action Reference Puppetry, Mon- keyBone (2001) Henry Selick Dir.,and Looney Tunes-Back in Action (2003) Joe Dante Dir., and nu- merous V.O. gigs, including voicing Lion King's TIMON (SAFTY SMART! video series) for Disney. Bruce is extremely grateful for lifetime of collaborative joy and laughter, and believes, that Everyone deserves to give themselves the Inner Permission to pursue their truth and passion freely, with an open heart. As a Teaching Artist, his quest is to release fear and doubt, allowing each learner and Artist the opportunity to connect, to share, to Soar! We stand upon the shoulders of all creative souls before us, that enables every single voice to tell Their story, their version, of life's unpredictable magnificent journey, while illuminating all our lives with the Magical Gift of Play :) Pons Maar Pons Maar trained as a visual artist in Florida, (yep, a Florida Man) then studied various performance disciplines in the SF Bay Area and, as a ‘performance artist',  created and toured his solo shows.  He somehow ended up with a career in film and television appearing in; Return to Oz, Golden Child, The Blob (1988), Dead Heat, Masters of the Universe, Teddy Rex, George of the Jungle, Monkeybone, and Dinosaurs TV series.  Beginning with Return to Oz Pons also acted as Movement or Creature Coordinator on various productions. Terri Hardin Terri has been performing and creative all her life.  She started earning a living doing art and acting at age 8.  Known as Walt Disney's Legendary Imagineer, she has designed and created attractions for Disney Theme Parks all over the world and is best known for creating the Dragon's Lair in Paris Disneyland where you can see a 35' dragon come to life before your very eyes. She is also an accomplished actress, Puppeteer and Voice Talent. Her work can be seen in over 45 different films and television including GHOSTBUSTERS, MEN IN BLACK I & II, THE COUNTRY BEARS and CAPTAIN EO w/ Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. She became a MUPPETEER with the Jim Henson Company in 1989 after meeting Jim in New York.  Terri Hardin has worked on MUPPET 3D THEATRE, MUPPET MINI CLASSICS and DINOSAURS where she played BABY SINCLAIR'S arms. Other projects include the FOSTER FARMS CHICKENS where she designed the Original concept and has played the PASSENGER CHICKEN since 1993. Her career has given her many opportunities to work with a multitude of celebrities like Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Whoopie Goldberg and Guillermo Del Toro. A fully TRADEMARKED artist and sculptor Terri's work can be seen Internationally. Fine collectables, commissions and prototypes of all kinds she creates for clients DISNEY, MATTEL, G DEL TORO and MORE. She has even had her sculpture featured in LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her Company is TERRI HARDIN DESIGNS, INC.   Tom Fisher No bio provided

On this two-part episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome Performer, Director, Producer, Kevin Clash - and Designer, Art Director, Puppet builder, Jane Gootnick.   Episode Outline: Gene & Bill discuss Gene's “Billy Puppet” sketch.   Jane Gootnick –  2:48-37:40mis Jane discusses Character Sal Minella Designing and building a perfect puppet character Sir Didymus and Brian Froud designs Dinosaurs Dog from The Storyteller Working with animatronic servos Fraggle Rock characters: Trash Heap, Philo and Gunge Storyteller Bunny Dark Crystal Creatures Andy Warhol and David Bowie stories Miss Piggy Photo Shoot   Kevin Clash – 39:10 – 1:23:00 Kevin discusses the special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson Clifford and Muppets Tonight Michelle Pfeiffer Sandra Bullock Splinter Muppets Go to Disney World and Jim Henson Arsenio Hall show along with Jim Henson Fat Blue and Jim Henson Baby from Dinosaurs Elmo and his Dad, Louie from Beginnings Gene, Bill, and Kevin work together on Fox & Friends Kevin assigning Gene and performer wives to do background characters on Muppet Treasure Island Muppet Treasure Island characters Happytime Murders Learning from other puppeteers The new Dark Crystal Earth to Ned Gene & Bill's drag photos Bill tells Kevin how proud he is of him Getting a cab in NY The song/segment “Proud” from Families Stand Together and their funny recording session   Gene and Bill announce the winner of a viewer contest. ABOUT OUR GUESTS:   JANE GOOTNICK   With college degrees in both acting and set design Jane first moved to Europe working in Belgium and London. In the mid-70's she moved to NYC working with alternative theatre groups (LaMama, Joe Papp's Public Theatre). Jane became head sculptor at Brooks Van Horn Costume Co. making props, masks and creatures for a large variety of venues: Broadway shows (Sweeney Todd, Dracula, Peter Pan), feature films (The Wiz, Hair), Warner Bros walkarounds, commercials,  Ringling Bros Circus, and the first four seasons of Saturday Night Live. In 1978, the costume designer for SNL mentioned that the Jim Henson Company was looking for sculptors for a film called The Dark Crystal and suggested she interview. Jane was offered three weeks work to build a prototype support harness for the Skeksis they were developing. So, she left her three-year full-time job for three weeks of work at Henson's and stayed 40 years! Jane has worked in both the New York puppet shop and the London Creature Shop throughout the years. Designing/building puppets and creatures, supervising builds, and running workshops on location for Muppet/Henson films and TV series, (Dark Crystal, Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, The Storyteller, The Witches, Ninja Turtles, Dinosaurs, Muppets Tonight, The Muppets, etc.). She has also worked on a variety of talk shows, game shows, and awards shows (Oscars, Grammys, Hollywood Bowl and many more). Jane is an art director for print and media photoshoots, film posters and endless fashion shoots with Miss Piggy with Louis Vuitton   KEVIN CLASH Kevin Clash is best known for Elmo (Sesame Street) 1979-2012. He also was part of Labyrinth (1986), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (1991), Happytime Murders (SFX) 2018, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) 2019. In addition to Elmo, Clash is also known for performing Splinter (TMNT) Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), and Clifford (Muppets Tonight). Kevin Clash has won 29 daytime Emmys, over one hundred fifty -six performing title credits, thirty- one producing title credits and twenty- seven directing title credits. In 2011, his documentary, Being Elmo, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. He has appeared in numerous television specials, commercials, feature films and direct-to-video products. During his career, he has worked with great innovators who founded the classic puppet television industry including Kermit Love, Frank Oz, and Jim Henson. Clash has recruited, auditioned, and trained puppeteers from all over the world. He was the senior puppet coordinator, and was also a director, co-producer and senior creative adviser on Sesame Street.  Kevin was essential to the success of Elmo's World and the creative branding powerhouse of Elmo. Business Insider states that in 1996 the toy company Tyco saw their sales grow from $70 million to an astounding $350 million thanks to the Tickle Me Elmo Doll. Clash's most recent project, Earth to Ned, will be airing on Disney+ this Fall and he currently has several projects in development. 

On this two-part episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome Performer, Director, Producer, Kevin Clash -  and Designer, Art Director, Puppet builder, Jane Gootnick. Episode Outline: Jane Gootnick – 07:50 – 34:00 mins Jane talks about her very impression family tree and the early years People who originally inspired her. Pre-Henson work in NY, including SNL. Her start with Sesame Street and The Jim Henson Company. A review of characters she helped create. Gene & Bill announce details for a second Muppet Trivia Contest Kevin Clash –36:20 – 1:03:23 mins A funny wedding story. Stories about his childhood and early training at home. Working on the Captain Kangaroo & The Great Space Coaster. Puppet workshops with Jane Henson and starting at Sesame Street. The origins of Elmo with Richard Hunt. Elmo's connection with kids. Working with Jim Henson. The very first character he performed for Sesame Street. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ABOUT OUR GUESTS: KEVIN CLASH Kevin Clash is best known for Elmo (Sesame Street) 1979-2012. He also was part of Labyrinth (1986), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (1991), Happytime Murders (SFX) 2018, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) 2019. In addition to Elmo, Clash is also known for performing Splinter (TMNT) Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), and Clifford (Muppets Tonight).   Kevin Clash has won 29 daytime Emmys, over one hundred fifty -six performing title credits, thirty- one producing title credits and twenty- seven directing title credits. In 2011, his documentary, Being Elmo, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. He has appeared in numerous television specials, commercials, feature films and direct-to-video products. During his career, he has worked with great innovators who founded the classic puppet television industry including Kermit Love, Frank Oz, and Jim Henson. Clash has recruited, auditioned, and trained puppeteers from all over the world. He was the senior puppet coordinator, and was also a director, co-producer and senior creative adviser on Sesame Street.  Kevin was essential to the success of Elmo's World and the creative branding powerhouse of Elmo. Business Insider states that in 1996 the toy company Tyco saw their sales grow from $70 million to an astounding $350 million thanks to the Tickle Me Elmo Doll. Clash's most recent project, Earth to Ned, will be airing on Disney+ this Fall and he currently has several projects in development.    JANE GOOTNICK With college degrees in both acting and set design Jane first moved to Europe working in Belgium and London. In the mid-70's she moved to NYC working with alternative theatre groups (LaMama, Joe Papp's Public Theatre). Jane became head sculptor at Brooks Van Horn Costume Co. making props, masks and creatures for a large variety of venues: Broadway shows (Sweeney Todd, Dracula, Peter Pan), feature films (The Wiz, Hair), Warner Bros walkarounds, commercials,  Ringling Bros Circus, and the first four seasons of Saturday Night Live. In 1978, the costume designer for SNL mentioned that the Jim Henson Company was looking for sculptors for a film called The Dark Crystal and suggested she interview. Jane was offered three weeks work to build a prototype support harness for the Skeksis they were developing. So, she left her three-year full-time job for three weeks of work at Henson's and stayed 40 years!   Jane has worked in both the New York puppet shop and the London Creature Shop throughout the years. Designing/building puppets and creatures, supervising builds, and running workshops on location for Muppet/Henson films and TV series, (Dark Crystal, Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, The Storyteller, The Witches, Ninja Turtles, Dinosaurs, Muppets Tonight, The Muppets, etc.). She has also worked on a variety of talk shows, game shows, and awards shows (Oscars, Grammys, Hollywood Bowl and many more). Jane is an art director for print and media photoshoots, film posters and endless fashion shoots with Miss Piggy with Louis Vuitton, Prada and other diva designers.

On this episode, The Barretta Brothers welcome actress and Muppet performer, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph to talk about her career and answer questions from our Live YouTube Chat. She performs characters such as Abby Cadabby, Spamela Hamderson, Prairie Dawn's Mom, and more. Episode Outline: Gene and Bill answer questions for the first eleven minutes alone Dick the Shark shows up to taunt Gene Leslie Carrara-Rudolph joins the Q&A 11:30 – 58:30mins Her work before The Muppets Leslie's Muppet audition and her amazing Wizard of Oz medley. Paul Rudolph pops in for a moment. Questions from the Live Chat continue throughout Bobo meets Darcey The origins of Abby Cadabra Playing off each other as background players in Muppets Tonight Dick the Shark comes back Paul Rudolph pops in again Gene recalls drawing a fake tattoo on Leslie during Muppets Tonight Leslie draws Angel Cards for Gene and Bill Lolly Lardpop checks in for a visit Back to Bill and Gene Q&A on their own   ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Leslie Carrara-Rudolph   A graduate of San Francisco State University (BA degree, “Child Development through the Arts”) is a multi-faceted entertainer, writer, and artist best known for performing the fairy, Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street for which she earned her 5 Emmy nominations. Leslie got her start as a puppeteer on ABC's “Muppets Tonight.” Other TV credits- Jim Henson Company/PBS “Splash and Bubbles”, PBS Nature Cat, Disney's “Johnny & the Sprites”, Nickelodeon's Tough Puppy Leslie created an original musical stage show for the Walt Disney Company called “The Wahoo Wagon that ran at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. She was awarded the UNIMA citation of Excellence for her show “Wake Up Your Weird” and received two Jim Henson Foundation Grants.  Leslie recently had a residency at the Laurie Beechman theater performing her cabaret's “What Just Happened?”, “Moonlight Madness” and  “Bizarre Brunch.” Leslie performs and speaks throughout the country about “character development through the arts” with her puppet side Kicks “Lolly Lardpop” and Granny Dot.” These characters are featured in her original podcast on iTunes called “Lolly's radio playdate”

This week The TV Boys sit down to discuss Mindy Kaling. You know her from The Office and The Mindy Project, we discuss these as well as many other fantastic shows she has worked on, so listen in!

Kirk R. Thatcher is an Emmy award winning writer/producer, an award winning television, commercial and viral video director, as well as a creature maker and designer for both films and television.Kirk grew up in Los Angeles, and was making films by the age of 10, all involving creatures, space ships or broad comedy. Self taught in the field of Creature Effects he began at age nineteen working at Industrial Light and Magic, designing, creating and puppeteering creatures for blockbuster films such as, Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins. He was also an associate producer on Star Trek IV, in which he had a memorable cameo as the Punk on the Bus, rocking out to the Punk anthem he both wrote and sang, called, "I HateYou!"Kirk has co-written several Muppet films including Muppet Treasure Island, and directed four television movies: The Muppets Wizard of Oz which premiered at Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film Festival, "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppets Letters to Santa as well as the Lifetime Network Thanksgiving movie, "Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow" starring Mary Steenburgen. He was Supervising Producer on the Emmy Award winning ABC series, Muppets Tonight, and co-producer on the ABC series Dinosaurs, on which he designed most of the characters, working closely with one of his mentors, the Muppet's creator Jim Henson. As well as his long form work, Kirk has directed over thirty Muppet commercials and web shorts including, Muppet's Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been viewed over 72 Million times, and all of Neil Patrick Harris' web comedy series, "Neil's Puppet Dreams".More recently, Kirk was one of the three regular judges on the Syfy channel series, "Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge". In 2018 he created and Executive Produced a series for Netflix entitled, "The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell" with Christine McConnell and the Jim Henson company. Incredibly well received, the series has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes! He also co-wrote and co-directed the hit Muppet Live Shows that played at the Hollywood bowl and in London's O2 stadium. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Andrew and Brandon as they journey to March 1996, but first we get an update on the boys’ respective diets and Andrew expresses his new desire to do a 90s true crime special. We also get a special update at what was going on in the UK in March 1996, brought to you by Gaz and Dange from The Insanely Dangerous Retro Podshow. After the break, they dive into Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco. Brandon reminiscences about Muppets Tonight. They end by playing a game where Brandon quizzes Andrew on if actors were a part of The All New Mickey Mouse Club!Find out what was going on in the UK in March 1996 this Wednesday on The Insanely Dangerous Retro Podshow!Like the show? Leave us a 5 star review and subscribe!Send us a tweet at @Namely90sDiscuss the show on Instagram @Namely90sFind us online at Namely90s.comFollow Brandon on Twitter at @bschwittyFollow Andrew on Twitter at @NamelyAndrewOutro:Pixelland by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4222-pixellandLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The brothers are joined today by Kirk Thatcher, an Emmy award winning writer/producer, an award winning television, commercial and viral video director, as well as a creature maker and character designer for both films and television.   Expect to hear...   ...How and why Kirk became an artist in spite of having parents that did not see it as a lucrative or even practical career path.   ...what it was like to design and create creatures for Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II and III, E.T., and others.   ...the process behind writing Muppet films and the secret to bringing Muppet characters to life.   MEMORABLE QUOTES BY KIRK “I was interested in the cinema as not only a diversion but also as a career. Seeing that there were, indeed, vocations and avocations in the industry of cinema, or film if you will, I realized that not only did I enjoy viewing these productions, but I was also quite curious and interested in making them.” “They're dead. They're dehydrated, mummified Muppets. Whereas, when we're in the moment, and the characters come alive, particularly once you create out of yourself, that's the magic.” “Performers are more than just the people who read the lines. The Muppets, because they've been around so long, the performers are so integral, so it has to be much more of a collaboration.”   OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE Growing up in Los Angeles as an adopted child [05:18] Where Kirk discovered and developed his artistic abilities [12:48] Working on Return of the Jedi [18:12] Kirk's life in snapshots [24:30] Becoming an associate producer on Star Trek IV [32:10] Co-writing Muppet Treasure Island [46:30] Bringing that “extra insanity” to storytelling and character development [52:03] Taking risks with the Muppets [59:27] Collaborating with the brothers to create Pepe the King Prawn [1:01:40]   ABOUT OUR GUEST Kirk R. Thatcher is an Emmy award winning writer/producer, an award winning television, commercial and viral video director, as well as a creature maker and character designer for both films and television. Kirk began at nineteen working at Industrial Light and Magic, designing, creating and puppeteering creatures for blockbusters such as, Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins. He was also an associate producer on Star Trek IV, in which he had a memorable cameo as the Punk on the Bus, rocking out to the Punk anthem he both wrote and sang, called, “I HateYou!” Kirk has co-written several Muppet films including Muppet Treasure Island and directed four television movies: “The Muppets Wizard of Oz”, which premiered at Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film Festival, “It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie,”  “The Muppets Letters to Santa” as well as the Lifetime Network Thanksgiving movie, “Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow” starring Mary Steenburgen. He was Supervising Producer on the Emmy Award winning ABC series, Muppets Tonight, and co-producer on the ABC series Dinosaurs, on which he designed most of the characters, working closely with one of his mentors, the Muppet's creator Jim Henson. As well as his long form work, Kirk has directed over thirty Muppet commercials and web shorts including, Muppet's Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been viewed over 72 Million times, and all of Neil Patrick Harris' web comedy series, “Neil's Puppet Dreams”. Kirk has also written episodes for the Cartoon Network series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and directed episodes of Nickelodeon's series Lazy Town, PBS' Sid the Science Kid and Comedy Central's Crank Yankers. Kirk was also one of the three recurring judges on the Syfy channel series, “Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge” which had over 11 million viewers. More recently, Kirk created, wrote, and Executive Produced a series for Netflix entitled, “The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell” with Christine McConnell and the Jim Henson company. Kirk directed every episode and the series has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes! Kirk recently directed an episode of, “The Kids are Alright” entitled, “Mailbox” for ABC Network. He also directed 3hrs of episodes of the Muppets new series, “Muppets Now” on Disney +, which debuted in 2020. He also co-wrote and co-directed the hit Muppet Live Shows that played at the Hollywood bowl and in London's O2 stadium.  He is currently developing shows for Netflix, Disney + and the Amazon. When he isn't busy creating or directing shows, Kirk is also a voice talent and has done many of the memorable voices on the feature films, Spaced Invaders, Gremlins II and the animated series, “Klutter” as well as playing Dr Thatch in Medal of Honor, Above and Beyond, released in December of 2020.

Bill Barretta is a puppeteer and producer, who has been performing with the Jim Henson Company since 1991 and has become one of the leading Muppet performers.His first break came performing the body of Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs. From suit performance, Barretta transitioned to assisting and supporting roles in The Animal Show, playing multiple small character roles in Muppet Classic Theater and Mr. Willoughby's Christmas Tree, and made his film debut as a principal performer playing Clueless Morgan in Muppet Treasure Island. He later developed several new characters on Muppets Tonight, including Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama and Bobo the Bear.Along with having his own Muppet characters, Barretta has taken over several of Jim Henson's roles, such as Dr. Teeth, Rowlf The Dog, Mahna Mahna and the Swedish Chef. On Sesame Street, Barretta originated the role of Elmo's dad Louie who first appeared in Sesame Beginnings (and was subsequently inherited by Tyler Bunch). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Below the Frame Matt sits down with Sesame Street Muppet Performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (Abby Cadabby). They talk about Carol Burnett, Muppets Tonight, and how resilience is part of her life's journey. Carmen Osbahr (Rosita) shares her memory of late Muppet Performer Jerry Nelson and reads one of his stories. Plus, we hear Mr. Nelson performing one of his very own Jerry Stories.Leslie's Website: https://www.lesliecarrara-rudolph.com

http://www.UnderThePuppet.com - Kevin Clash made Sesame Street’s Elmo the global phenomenon he is today.  He worked with The Muppets starring as Clifford, who went on to host Muppets Tonight.  He puppeteered and voiced Master Splinter in the 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films and puppeteered Aughra in the Netflix Series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.  His numerous other credits include Captain Kangaroo, The Great Space Coaster, Dinosaurs, HappyTime Murders and Earth to Ned.  Kevin Clash is my guest on this episode of Under The Puppet. Transcript of this interview is available to the Saturday Morning Media Patreon Patrons! CONNECT WITH KEVIN: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165159/ DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Stu Kerr Jim Henson Jim Kroupa Bob Keeshan Captain Kangaroo Cosmo Allegretti (Obituary) Kermit Love The Great Space Coaster John Lovelady Jim Martin Labyrinth Wrinkles In Need of Cuddles Somebody Say Toothpaste Heavy & Light Richard Hunt Dinosaurs Muppets Tonight Clifford Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Happytime Murders DOWNLOAD THE FREE UNDER THE PUPPET APP! IOS - https://apple.co/2WZ4uZg ANDROID - https://bit.ly/2RwcFev CONNECT WITH THE SHOW http://www.instagram.com/underthepuppet http://www.twitter.com/underthepuppet http://www.facebook.com/underthepuppet CONNECT WITH GRANT http://www.MrGrant.comhttp://www.twitter.com/toasterboy https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ Art by Parker Jacobs Music by Dan Ring Edited by Stephen Staver Help us make more shows like this one.  Become a patron of Saturday Morning Media and get cool rewards!  Visit www.patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia for info! ©2020 Saturday Morning Media - http://www.saturdaymorningmedia.com

Lock, Stock and two tomme tønner! Bli med inn i Oslos mørke underverden med rednecks, dansker, snobbete transportsjefer med interesse for taxidermi, og småkriminelle kioskmedarbeidere! Har podcasten endelig funnet en komedie med politisk snert? Med lydklipp hentet fra åpne kilder på nett og benyttet i henhold til god skikk for sitering. Disse inkluderer klipp fra Tomme Tønner, Påpp og Råkk, Muppets Tonight, Gunvor Hals og Filmmagasinet.

Well, it happened. Biden has picked a running mate and there are feelings around that pick. We chat about Senator Harris, the upcoming election and what needs to happen on Nov. 4th. School to Prison Pipeline - https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/school-prison-pipeline-infographic http://www.justicepolicy.org/news/8775 https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/bullies-blue 2016 percentage of eligible voters - http://www.electproject.org/2016g Ages of Presidents and Presidential Candidates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age Kanye bipolar disorder - https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/kim-kardashian-statement-kanye-west-mental-health.html https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/901534846/heres-how-republicans-are-boosting-kanye-west-s-presidential-campaign https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/507266-kanye-west-gets-2-percent-in-national-presidential-poll IG Firings - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/ https://www.vox.com/2020/5/28/21265799/inspectors-general-trump-linick-atkinson https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trump-twists-record-on-inspectors-general/ Trump V Trump Axios Interview - https://youtu.be/qwUpNAU-AEU Prince on Muppets Tonight - https://youtu.be/t_Xq-mUlq5o I'm the Juggernaut B*tch - https://youtu.be/plQIf5fS8xw

Kirk R. Thatcher is an Emmy award-winning writer/producer, an award-winning television, commercial and viral video director, as well as a creature maker and designer for both films and television. Kirk has worked with the Muppets since 1989, and has directed several episodes of the new Muppets Now series on Disney+. His directing credits include It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. His writing credits include Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Tonight, and Dinosaurs. Kirk was the Supervising Producer on the Emmy Award-winning ABC series, Muppets Tonight, and co-producer on the ABC series Dinosaurs, on which he designed most of the characters, working closely with Muppet's creator Jim Henson. As well as his long form work, Kirk has directed over thirty Muppet commercials and web shorts including, Muppet's Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been viewed over 72 Million times, and all of Neil Patrick Harris' web comedy series, "Neil's Puppet Dreams". Kirk was one of the three regular judges on the Syfy channel series, Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge. In 2018 Kirk created and Executive Produced The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell with Christine McConnell and the Jim Henson Company for Netflix. Prior to his work with The Muppets, Kirk worked for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, where he designed, built, painted, and puppeteered creatures for numerous films including Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins. He was also an associate producer on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and portrayed "Punk on the Bus". He made a cameo as "Punk Rock Guy" in Spider-Man: Homecoming, as a homage to his role in Star Trek IV.

One of Jake's all time favorite movies and he completed wasted it by letting Bob from No Redeeming Qualities guest host on it... uh, I mean, yay Bob... or whatever. In all seriousness, we would like to thank Bob for taking the time to join in on this episode and yell even more than Jake... which we legitimately did not know was possible. You can find their show at https://nrqpodcast.com/ (Re)written and directed by the late and great, Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Dark Star, Lifeforce). The film is loosely based on John Russo's novel of the same name, following his falling out with George A. Romero, with whom he worked on Night of the Living Dead. The film features great performances by veteran character actors Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa. The film also features several actors, who were fledgling talents at the time: Thom Matthews, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., and Mark Venturini (all of whom worked on the Friday the 13th Franchise). The illustrious, Linnea Quigley, steals the show as "Trash." Nevermind the prosthetic genitalia and the fact that she is the only zombie to cosplay as a demon, her performance is great and we will not entertain any debate otherwise. The practical effects and puppetry on the film are the things of legend. Allan Trautman played the now infamous Tarman or Barrel Zombie. His work included Muppets Tonight, Unhappily Ever After, Greg the Bunny, and Monkeybone. Tony Gardner, who would go on to do makeup effects for Hellboy and Zombieland, made the half zombie. He was also in the Thriller music video by Michael Jackson! This week's "Hidden Track" is by Ill Fortune. You can find his music at https://www.illfortunemusick.com/ ; https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealBloodShot/videos and on Instagram at @illfortunemusic If you ever have feedback or recommendations on future episodes, please let us know at slasherspod@gmail.com. You can always find us on our social media: Instagram, Twitter, Slasher App: @slasherspod Facebook: /slasherspod Reddit: u/slasherspod https://www.youtube.com/c/slasherspodcast Theme song is I wanna Die by Mini Meltdowns. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZAk6lUDsaJj8EAhrhzZnh ; https://minimeltdowns.bandcamp.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/slasherspod/support

Bill Barretta began performing with The Jim Henson Company in 1991 and has become one of the core Muppet performers. Originally from Philadelphia Pa, Barretta was trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City under the late, great Sanford Meisner and has appeared in several films and television shows such as, Murder in the First, Born to Be Wild, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, (which he also co-wrote and received a Saturn Award), Nightmares and Dreamscapes and more recently, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Barretta began his career with The Jim Henson Company, landing the character of Earl Sinclair on the ABC hit television series Dinosaurs. From there, he transitioned to supporting and then ultimately featured roles, making his film debut as a principal performer playing Clueless Morgan in Muppet Treasure Island. Barretta soon developed several new characters on the ABC series Muppets Tonight, including Pepé the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama and Bobo the Bear, to name a few. Along with having his own Muppet creations, Barretta is honored to have taken over several of Jim Henson’s roles: Rowlf the Dog, The Swedish Chef, Dr. Teeth and Mahna Mahna. In addition, Barretta has served as coordinator, co-producer and executive producer for many Muppet projects over the last twenty-six years, including It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, Muppets Letters to Santa, The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, the most recent ABC Primetime series The Muppets, and the highly successful live shows, The Muppets Take The Hollywood Bowl, and The O2 Arena. Barretta has directed, produced and written countless projects for the Muppets over the last twenty-six years including commercials for, UL, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, Subway, Lipton, Toyota, PAM and an abundance of Social Media content. Barretta also recently co-starred with Melissa McCarthy as private-eye Phil Philips in the “The Happytime Murders”. …Oh, and he’s a nice Italian boy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cindy-gilman/support

This week the word is Multiverse. The guys discuss their favorite multiverse stories, starting with the mirror universe from Star Trek, and including Sliders, Fringe, Counterpart, Replay, Alternities, What if?, Into the Spiderverse, D&D, Muppets Tonight, Rick & Morty, and Watchmen. Andy again urges Keith to attend Burning Man, which will have the theme of The Multiverse next year. Other topics include the Richat Structure in the Sahara desert, a nerdy connection between Star Wars and Dune, National Lampoon's Doon, and Keith's fake Russian accent story. Behind the Spoiler Curtain they discuss Watchmen episode 6.Spoiler warning: Contains spoilers!

Clinkers, we know it's been a while but we are finally back for one more -- and one final -- episode. Yes, it's true, after almost 7 years, we have decided it is now time to bring Punch Drunk TV to an end. This is Aaron typing, in case you didn't know. I started this show, back when it was first called Best Frienemies, and then revamped to the GeekNation show Pass the Effin Remote, for the simple reason that I wanted to hang out with Jack. I knew we had good chemistry, I was always entertained when we hung out, and a light bulb went off that we should do some type of show. Now, here we are. Doing this show helped us make new friends, brought our voices into households across the world, opened up doors to new job opportunities, and solidified my friendship with this dude I first met at a goth club over 20 years ago. This may be the end to Punch Drunk TV, but we are not going anywhere. Jack and I are currently working out an idea for a new show, so please keep in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter. We will announce something in the coming months. In the meantime, please clink the drink with us one final time. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: The "Game of Thrones" finale set a record for HBO with 19.3 million viewers tuning in. The final season of "Orange is the New Black" will premiere on Friday, July 26. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" will premiere Friday, Aug. 30. Hulu has announced a new kids cartoon called "The Bravest Knight" which will feature same-sex parents. To celebrate the third season of "Stranger Things," Coca Cola will be bringing back a limited number of New Coke cans as a tie-in. There's a rumor many outlets are reporting on that says "The Muppets" will be coming getting a new series on Disney+. The episodes will be a collection of variety show-style shorts that sound like a throwback to the original "Muppet Show" from the '70s, as well as "Muppets Tonight" from the late '90s. AARON'S LOSERS:"Bonding" (Netflix), "Arrested Development" (Netflix) and "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" (Netflix) JACK'S LOSERS:"Game of Thrones" (HBO) and "Arrested Development" (Netflix) AARON'S FENCERS:"The Twilight Zone" (CBS All Access) and "Game of Thrones" JACK'S FENCERS: "I Think You Should Leave" (Netflix) AARON'S WINNERS"Tuca & Bertie" (Netflix), "The Act" (Hulu), "I Think You Should Leave," "What We Do in the Shadows" (FX), "Barry" (HBO) and "Chernobyl" (HBO)JACK'S WINNERS: "Barry," "Happy!" (SYFY), "The Other Two" (Comedy Central), "Rilakkuma" (Netflix), "The Act" and "The Kids Are Alright" (ABC) Find us on Twitter: @PunchDrunk_TV, @flatlinejack and @aaronflux  Join the conversation on Facebook. Welcome to Episode 125. Thanks for sticking with us all these years. We love you.

Ignite your arrows and throw on a sloppy British accent, because this week we're finally discussing Mark's dream movie: ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES! On this week's super sized episode, we cover everything and anything related to the Robin Hood mythos, including: Jon once again terrorizes Quebec! The glory of Rubberband Man! Mark's high school confessions! We name a bunch of Kevins! The proliferation of Basement Witches! PLUS: Fuzzy recollections of various Saturday morning cartoons! Please subscribe via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or pretty much anywhere fine podcasts are purveyed. Leave us a rating and review so we can FINALLY get back to that skywriter we keep on retainer! Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/BodyCountCast Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/bodycountsandbeer/ Email us: bodycountsandbeer@gmail.com Let us know what you liked, what you hated, your favorite Muppet Show performance, your least favorite Muppets Tonight performance, what movie to watch next or ANYTHING AT ALL!

On week one of March Muppness, Elyssa and Ross start things off with arguably the most forgettable Muppets property since Muppets Tonight! The two discuss their sicknesses, who Ashanti is, and the good ol’ days of 2D animation. Plus, Elyssa calls out Ross about Hamilton, and the two debate as to who the biggest Muppets fan truly is! Follow Kidflix on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @kidflixpod, and send us your recommendations or comments to kidflixpod@gmail.com! And be sure to tweet at us your opinions!

http://www.UnderThePuppet.com - Leslie Carrara-Rudolph's first big puppet job was working on Muppets Tonight alongside Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz and Kevin Clash to name a few.  Currently she is Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street and Bubbles in the Jim Henson Company show Splash & Bubbles.  In this interview, I talk to Leslie about her puppetry work including developing characters, producing your own puppetry show and using puppets to perform outreach for kids. CONNECT WITH LESLIE WEBSITE - https://www.lesliecarrara-rudolph.com LOLLY LARDPOP - http://lollysradioplaydate.com IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139999/ FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/lollylardpop TWITTER - http://www.twitter.com/lollylardpop INSTAGRAM - http://www.instagram.com/lollylardpop BECKY RAY'S KIDNEY VIDEO - https://youtu.be/1yIw47VFvk8 CONNECT WITH THE SHOW http://www.twitter.com/underthepuppet http://www.facebook.com/underthepuppet http://www.twitter.com/underthepuppet CONNECT WITH GRANT http://www.MrGrant.comhttp://www.twitter.com/toasterboy https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ Art by Parker Jacobs Music by Dan Ring Help us make more shows like this one.  Become a patron of Saturday Morning Media and get cool rewards!  Visit www.patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia for info! ©2018 Saturday Morning Media - http://www.saturdaymorningmedia.com

http://www.UnderThePuppet.com - Thom Fountain was the puppeteer of Salem the Cat on Sabrina The Teenage Witch for seven seasons.  He's an Emmy nominated performer who's also worked on Men In Black, Team America, Muppets Tonight and more.  In this interview. I talk to Thom about his career including his start in live shows for Sid & Marty Krofft, his thoughts on what skills puppeteers should study, his favorite puppeteer and more. Also on the show, the next step of your Puppeteer Action Plan, a small action you can take today to help your puppetry career grow. CONNECT WITH THOM http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288364/ VIDEO - Caprice EgyptianVIDEO - Words of Wisdom with Badelia CONNECT WITH THE SHOW http://www.twitter.com/underthepuppet http://www.facebook.com/underthepuppet CONNECT WITH GRANT http://www.MrGrant.comhttp://www.twitter.com/toasterboy https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ Art by Parker Jacobs Music by Dan Ring Help us make more shows like this one.  Become a patron of Saturday Morning Media and get cool rewards!  Visit www.patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia for info! ©2017 Saturday Morning Media - http://www.saturdaymorningmedia.com

     Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is a performer and puppeteer on “Sesame Street.” She performs Abby Cadabby as well as a variety of other characters. She has performed the Muppets on “Muppets Tonight,” “The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss,” the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” and many, many other programs.  Fans may also remember her from the film, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” starring Jason Segel, as the evil succubus in the vampire musical.      Leslie has also devoted her career to using imagination and creativity as a form of mission and outreach to at-risk youth and children.  She is the creator of the original multimedia musical, “Wake Up Your Weird!” which was developed under a grant by the Jim Henson Foundation.  She is also one of the founding members of “Puppet Up! / Stuffed And Unstrung” with Brian Henson and the Jim Henson Company.      During our conversation, Leslie shares some of her behind-the-scenes stories from working with the Muppets and how she learned from legendary Henson performers like Jerry Nelson and Frank Oz.  She talks a little about how her experiences growing up gave her a passion for helping young people "wake up their weird" to explore their feelings through artistic expression, irreverence, humor, and honesty.  Plus, find out how Leslie had an "Uncle Ben" moment meeting Shari Lewis on an airplane.

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is an incredibly high energy , puppeteer and voice-over artist. She may be best known for her puppet character Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street, for which she has received 4 Emmy nominations for Best Performer in a Children’s Series. Leslie got her start as a puppeteer on ABC’s Muppets Tonight and talks with […]

With the passing of Prince, Lara and Julia speak about the show Muppets Tonight and the late artist's guest appearance on the show.

The trip through the 90s sitcom trenches continues with Boy Meets World, Step By Step, Muppets Tonight, and more! Steve's got more depressing actor trivia, Caleb's got a pretty good muppet impression, and Logan is really confused about the guy who played Minkus. But none of that matters because this episode is LIVE FROM DISNEYWORLD!!!!!

Ed Lee. Ed has written for "Norm," "Are You There, Chelsea?," "Muppets Tonight," and "The Drew Carey Show." Ed teaches writing at iO, and recorded this "ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky and Ian Foley" podcast from the prestigious California Summer Arts Festival in Monterey Bay, CA.

Raise your hands if you like The Critic, Futurama, The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson and The Muppets Tonight.  This week's guest is Patric Verrone, who wrote for ALL of those things, and is also a former president of the … Continue reading →

For 30 years, Freebo played bass on recordings and toured with some of the great artists of our time–people like Bonnie Raitt (10 years), John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, CSN, Maria Muldaur, Ringo Starr, Michelle Shocked, Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Dr. John, and many others. He has also appeared on Saturday Night Live, Midnight Special, Muppets Tonight, and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap. It was his yearning for more creative expression, however, that drove Freebo to begin a process of deep inner discovery, and this has led to his successful transition as a singer/songwriter. Freebo’s latest album is “Something to Believe”. The collection starts with “Standing Ovation” which could be the highlight of the album.  This song represents how Freebo wants to be remembered at his own funeral. Today we will be playing some of the songs from this album.

Please beware: These are early incarnations of a podcast that's evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you're new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first. Today's topics include Muppets Tonight, something about Conan O'Brien, punching the transporter guy in “Star Trek – The Next Generation, and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O'Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

Prince - Muppets Tonight (2) (1)

Prince - Muppets Tonight (2) (1)

2x09 - The Best Of Muppets Tonight

2x09 - The Best Of Muppets Tonight