When NBC executives decided to take a chance on Lorne Michaels’s live sketch comedy show in 1975, they were a little wary about what the budding young producer might actually end up airing. So they ...

A build of the muppet Rowlf by puppet maker Tim Miller from Don Sahlin’s original design (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) At the end of “The Jim Henson Exhibition,” now on permanent ...

This past Friday saw the UK cinema release of Muppets Most Wanted, directed by James Bobin and starring Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and, of course, those lovable Muppets. This movie marks the 8 th ...

At last year's Thought Bubble, in Leeds, I was led to point out that Roger Langridge has drawn the Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show as a species of the alien race, the Vorlons from Babylon 5. Well, ...