Jim Henson

And even like, you know, people don't think of this guy as a voiceover actor, but he absolutely was.

Jim Henson, who was an incredible voice actor, you know, and he was able to bring a sock to life with just his voice, you know.

Oh, absolutely.

I get to work on, actually, just... recently just got nominated for an emmy for uh fozzie bear look at you ah that's a lot yeah you're on muppet babies baby yeah yeah

that is that is incredible

again jim henson and frank oz i mean oh frank yeah it's

great

created created these universes and characters that uh that we've loved for so many years, and I'm extremely lucky to be a part of that franchise as well.

And you might, as we've talked about here, you might be able to find someone who kind of sounds like these characters.

But I always look to Kermit the Frog and how Kermit the Frog simply doesn't have the heart and soul that Jim Henson somehow managed to imbue him with.

while he was still alive and now the the people that have have taken over the character and there's been a number of them mostly sound like kermit but they just don't have that same kind of poignancy to them whether they're trying to be funny or trying to be heartfelt and i think that will be the uh problem uh moving forward to find one person that can do this wide variety of characters

Toronto-born Eric Bauza, the voice behind the modern-day Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoon characters and others, passed away Sunday from hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

days ago.

I watched that Jim Henson documentary, which you really need to see if you want to get some creative juice going.

Oh man.

I honestly don't.

A calm, normal dog.

That's what I was going to tell you earlier.

Jim Henson.

I got off track when I watched that documentary.

Jerry turns into a full bat.

It's like a... huge gothic Jim Henson puppet, isn't it? Yeah.

It's better than Scars of Dracula, right? I mean, that is the benchmark for bats.

Nothing can beat

So yeah.

Was like driving back and forth between Stirling, Ontario and space The hours were crazy and I was sort of tired and delirious for the entire month of July But I got the puppeteer so so I guess I did I got lost so to answer your question It was incredibly exciting because it hit all these things on my bucket list that I didn't think you could hit only one thing like I'd always wanted to be like a real red shirt and because I was the red shirt I got to puppeteer the red shirt so one of mine was like oh I would love to be a red shirt where I just come on and then I get shot like oh that would be fantastic and then so I was the red shirt and then I was like wouldn't it be great to get to work like a muppet and they were real like you peeled back like the sleeve and it would say like property of Jim Henson puppet shop like they were they were real Jim Henson muppets Uh, and they had a bunch of, of like the Henson puppeteers in from LA who were wonderful.

And so, so it hit that bucket list.

Plus like I got to fly the Starship Enterprise, not very well because I was a puppet, but I got to fly it.

I've watched a lot of like, because I follow Star Trek on all the socials and stuff.

So I've watched a lot of like behind the scenes from that episode in particular, because of course, we were like hunting for you and all the behind the scenes stuff.

But yeah, like the fact that they were real Jim Henson puppets, the way that they had Carol Kane's hair made out of, it looks like those cat toys, but like to make it curly and everywhere and like, It was just so magical.

Yeah.

He's the Star Wars guy, right? He's Star Wars.

Well, he created the Muppets with Jim Henson.

He created Miss Piggy, all those famous characters.

He's Yoda, the original Yoda.

Although I've always found Kermit the Frog does not sound like Kermit the Frog.

He doesn't sound like Jim Henson.

And maybe that was deliberate.

So I was mentioning going into the news at 8 o'clock that I'd come across a new musician.

That was, quote, family entertainment.

Jim Henson, yeah.

Henson was an adult.

He did adult things with those puppets.