Muppet regime

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The latest installment in Studio 360’s American Icons series: The Muppets — how the world fell for Jim Henson’s troupe of puppets. Plus, teleprompters were supposed to make cue cards obsolete, but not on “Saturday Night Live,” where “Cue Card Wally” Feresten is indispensable. And singer Angélique Kidjo talks about her new album “Remain in Light,” a track-by-track cover of the 1980 Talking Heads album.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.4	I'm Kurt Anand.
0:11.2	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.5	This first level of garden.
0:14.8	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.4	Very well done.
0:19.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.2	Studio 360.
0:28.3	It's good.
0:28.9	Anderson.
0:32.5	Were you surprised by what big news this was?
0:36.4	I feel like the breakup of the Soviet Union did not get as much
0:40.5	coverage as your breakup did. Well, and rightly so. Yeah. Yes, of course. I mean, look. That's Jimmy Kimmel
0:45.9	talking, of course, to Miss Piggy and Kermit. It was 2015, and on the latest edition of the
0:52.6	Muppet show on ABC,
0:56.7	the two characters had just broken up.
1:00.0	Anything that happens to me is going to be front-page news.
1:04.1	And I'm kind of like the Donald Trump of love.
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