Who’s up for a newsbit or twosbit? Yes, this is the caliber of jokes I will be telling in this article. Feel free to just look at the pretty pictures.
Every year, Sesame Workshop holds a gala, and every year they neglect to invite me (I’m sure it just got lost in the mail, right Joan Ganz Cooney??). This year, to celebrate the big four-oh, Brian Williams hosted the event, which included famous folks like Sheryl Crow, Al Roker, and Joel Schumacher. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was also on hand to accept a special honor for appearing in Letters to Santa last year. The surprise of the night was a special video recorded by former Presidential nominee Barack Obama. I’m sure glad I voted for a guy who loves Sesame Street.
Now that you’ve read a few issues of The Muppet Show Comic Book, and you’re all primed for Muppet Robin Hood, check out the first details from Muppet Peter Pan! In the comic, Kermit will play the part of Mary Martin, Piggy will lose a lot of weight to portray Tinkerbell, Gonzo will embrace the obvious jokes about his nose as Captain Hook, and Robin, Janice, Scooter, and Bean Bunny will trade duties as the kids who run away from home without a clean set of underwear. There’s no release date set yet, but the comic will most likely come out immediately following the end of Muppet Robin Hood.
Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, and other characters (I’m gonna guess at least one performed by Joey Mazzarino) will appear on A Capitol Fourth, a PBS special filmed in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC on July 4th. I’m not sure when it will air in countries that don’t have a Fourth of July.
A little birdie told another little birdie, who then told an albatross, who told Kevin Bacon, who told me that Archaia Comics will soon be publishing Fraggle Rock comic books. With the success BOOM! Studios is having with the Muppet comics, this seems like a no-brainer. But if it turns out to be a false rumor, then maybe they can just reprint the old Fraggle Rock comics from the 80s. And here’s a better idea: They shouldn’t do that, because those comics were terrible.
Kermit Culture, an academic anthology peering deep into the cellular structure of the Muppets, just became available from McFarland Publishing. The book features one article written by ToughPigs’ own Andrew Leal, so kudos to him! Unfortunately, because it’s an academic text, you probably won’t see this book on shelves, so if you’re interested, you’ll have to buy it online. The nice thing about that is that you feel a certain air of superiority when you order academic texts while in just your underwear.
Oscar (the grouch) appeared on an ABC special earlier this week called “Un-Broke: What You Need to Know About Money.” Unfortunately, I’m a big stupidhead and I forgot to watch, so I have no idea what it was all about. Un-unfortunately, ToughPigs’ own Ryan Mead is much less of a stupidhead and watched the program. Says Ryan, “Oscar’s sketch was about the importance of having stocks in your retirement account, and there were a few amusing bits here and there, such as Oscar explaining he hopes to move out of his trash can and retire to a Dumpster someday, and the revelation that his poor portfolio (Enron, etc.) is due to the fact that, not surprisingly, his only ‘investing’ is stock certificates that other people threw out in his can.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. Seriously.
Former Jim Henson Company President and CEO Charlie Rivkin was tapped by President Obama (did I mention how awesome that guy is?) to be the next US ambassador to France. That means he can park wherever he wants! What a great gig! Rivkin might seem like an odd choice to you , but his father was Kennedy’s ambassador to Luxembourg and Johnson’s ambassador to Senegal and Gambia, so ambassadoring must run in the family. I’ve got suspicions that he’s only taking the job so he can secretly complete Kermit’s World Tour. Quelle difference!
I have been waiting my entire life for someone to make a Super Grover shirt with just the logo, and MyPartyShirt.com made my dreams come true. I’m sure they made some mad money from just the folks who ordered it on the ToughPigs forum. I bought one, and it gave me the power to fly around the neighborhood. It did not, however, help me to land, so now I’m in traction. Maybe the shirt should come with a helmet.
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