Our own Rachel Herrick recently got the chance to sit down with Muppet performer and all round nice guy Mike Quinn, to chat about his almost 40 year career with The Muppets. Watch below as Rachel and Mike talk Star Wars, puppet building, and of course, Mike’s friendship with Jim Henson. Advertisements
Jarrod Fairclough – Seth MacFarlane’s career is an interesting one. He started out as an animator, eventually became a writer, created several hit animated TV shows, made a bunch of movies with his friends, and now leads the cast in a live action space dramedy. Oh, and just in case you didn’t realize he could do…
Amy Banks – Have you seen The Furchester Hotel? A manic-pixie-dream vision of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends crossed with Sesame Street and a little bit of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel thrown in for funzies, the show features Street alum Elmo and his family as well as a lovely, kooky Cookie Monster, straight off…
Jarrod Fairclough – We’re hectically trying to organise an international trip that we’ll soon be taking these days, so we missed a lot of news last week regarding the Jim Henson Company film, Happytime Murders. Another 4 people have been cast in the film, due out in August next year, and we’re happy to say they’re…
Kieran Moore – When I embarked on this mammoth celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Muppet Show (writing 40 yearly charts for every year since 1976), I knew there would occasionally be times when the lack of Muppet output would make things tricky. In fact, I didn’t think it would take this long to get…
Jarrod Fairclough – Ask 100 people their favorite episode of The Muppet Show, and you’ll likely hear a lot of the same answers – Mark Hamill, Steve Martin, John Cleese etc. Then some people get real obscure, like Arlo Guthrie or Mummenschanz. You’ll never hear Rich Little’s name though, because that episode blows chunks. Well, those fine…
Jarrod Fairclough – We’re still riding that high from this weekend’s extremely successful live shows at The Hollywood Bowl, but we’re devastated that so many people had to miss out. Thankfully, we live in an age of camera phones, so there’s plenty of video out there of the event. So, we thought we’d do you a…
Jarrod Fairclough – Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to The Muppets Take The Bowl this past weekend due to previous commitments (and living in Australia), so I asked my good pal Rachel Herrick if she’d do me a favor and cover the show for me. Rachel went twice, and at the time of publishing, literally has…
Kieran Moore – To paraphrase Prince – I was dreamin’ when I wrote this; forgive me if it goes astray; cos’ tonight I’m gonna charty like it’s 1999. I may have taken a few liberties with those lyrics, but the sentiment still stands. 1999 was a party year and an exciting time to be alive –…
Jarrod Fairclough – This weekend marks The Muppets Take The Hollywood Bowl, a 3 night live event promising to be a spectacle and a half. To mark the occasion, Kermit and Miss Piggy were interviewed in 101-degree heat about what to expect, and got in to a hilarious argument in the process. Unfortunately the video isn’t…
Jarrod Fairclough – Long ago, when I was just a lad, looking for my true vocation, I was too young to be purchasing these gorgeous Muppet figures I’d see in local pop culture stores, by some company called ‘Palisades’. Then, when I was finally an adult (in relative terms), and could afford such things, they were…
Our good pal Rachel Herrick recently headed to Seattle, where she took in the Jim Henson exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture, currently on show until 3rd January 2018. Watch below as she checks out a Mystic, compares Beautiful Day Monster to another well known fuzzy and blue Muppet, and does a spot on…
