Mini Ep #125: The History of the Muppets, Part 1 with Craig Shemin

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week: The legendary Caroll Spinney! Uncle Miltie holds court! The Muppets join the cast of SNL! And Gilbert sings with Miss Piggy (and Kermit)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried. I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and this is Gilbert
0:25.3	and Frank's colossal obsessions and we're once again recording it not vague with our engineer
0:33.4	Frank murderer of Sam Brack colossal obsessions. You have such a lilt in your voice. Yes.
0:40.4	I'm just impressed that it took you how many weeks to get the name of this showdown? No, it
0:44.8	took me a few years. A couple. Two and a half years. We're grading on a curve. We actually have a
0:50.8	guest for a mini episode this week and it's somebody that I've known I'm trying to get my headphones
0:55.5	to fit my head. It's somebody I've known a very long time. Mr. Craig Shemmon is here with us.
1:01.6	That is me. Craigie. Frankie. Yeah. To see you. How shall we introduce you? You are the president of
1:09.9	the Jim Henson legacy. That is correct. I'm also a freelance writer, producer and doer of things.
1:17.4	You are a doer of things. You are a former staff writer for the Muppets as well. You are the
1:22.8	the editor and the writer of the Muppets character in cyclopedia. That is correct. Do we have this
1:27.1	right? Yes. That's available wherever fine books about Muppets are sold. How long have you and
1:32.2	I known each other? I think we met in a writing workshop in the 90s. We did. And I think
1:38.4	because people were writing scripts for either Seinfeld or Murphy Brown. That dates.
1:44.3	You had to date us. Yeah. And one of the instructors in that workshop was Suzan Collins,
1:51.1	who has become a... He wrote the Hunger game. Become quite a success.
1:57.1	Yeah. And I remember one of the others was a steam and sitcom writer, Lee Kalshine.
2:01.7	Lee Kalshine, who wrote all in the family. Yes. And we would always talk about him because he
2:06.6	and I patch on at the time and he looked like a pirate. What if Lee is listening to this?
2:12.9	Well, how will Lee... Have you considered that? I have. There's nothing wrong with looking like a pirate.
2:17.2	Now, we had requests from our listeners saying when the hell are you people going to do something
2:22.4	about the Muppets? So I said, okay, well, we'll get a Muppet expert in here. I just happen to
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