It’s time to meet the muppets! Tomorrow, author Craig Shemin will discuss his new book, The Muppets Character Encyclopedia (2014, DK Publishing), and lead an afternoon of video clips, trivia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of ...

Barely three weeks ago, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took the stage at the Academy Awards and Bret McKenzie took home an Oscar for “Man or Muppet” – capping a great movie comeback for Jim Henson’s ...

“Jim Henson Idea Man” should have been titled: “Jim Henson Workaholic.” In the Ron Howard documentary, Henson is rarely pictured without a pile of felt or a herd of Muppets more than an arm’s reach ...

(The Conversation) – A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of characters made of foam and fleece. Long after “The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) A variety show ...