35 Facts About Puppets and the People That Stick Their Hands Up Them

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35 Facts About Puppets and the People That Stick Their Hands Up Them
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All we can do is speculate, but it must be really hard to pump out great work with a hand up your butt. 

Sorry, we had to. 

We’re 99 percent sure a ventriloquist has used some version of that joke before, but when we started gathering tidbits about movie and TV puppets, it’s all we could think about. As hard as it is to say that we have anything in common with ventriloquists, it seems like we share an affinity for juvenile jokes.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Voiced and puppeted by Robert Smigel, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was first seen on Late Night with Conan O'Brian in 1997. Since then he's been insulting celebrities and chain smoking cigars consistently for over 20 years.

Tom Servo & Crow

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Tom Servo & Crow GRMONDCA Joel& Mike would have died of loneliness in Mystery Science Theater 3000 if not for these 2. Tom Servo and Crow have spent the last 30 years making fun of movies, and inspiring annoying people at the theater to do the same.

Meet the Feebles

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Meet The Feebles A spoof of The Muppet Show, Meet The Feebles follows the behind the scenes drama of a similar cast. With enough sex and drugs to rival Motley Crue, this Peter Jackson film will have you saying This guy should direct Lord of the Rings.

Avenue Q

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Avenue Q With songs like The Internet is for Porn and Everyone's a Little Bit Racist Avenue Q was just like an adult Sesame Street. Created by Jeff Whitty and Robert Lopez, this Broadway musical proves puppets DO watch porn.

Randy Feltface

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Randy Feltface Australian comic Randy Feltface is voiced and puppeted by Australian comic Heath Mclvor. Randy blew away Americans with his appearances on Bring the Funny doing his stand up act, and often sings with other musical comedian Sammy J. Check him out... he'll leave you in stitches.

Walter

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Walter While Jeff Dunham has many other rude puppets, it's fair to say most of them wouldn't feel welcome in 2022. With such acts as Mexican puppet, black puppet, and terrorist puppet, Jeff Dunham and Walter ruled the midwest in 2007.

Crank Yankers

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Crank Yankers WICH Created by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison, Crank Yankers invites comics to make recorded prank phone calls. The show had knockout guest callers including Fred Armisen, Sarah Silvermen, Tim& Eric and Nick Kroll.

Greg the Bunny

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Greg The Bunny Greg the Bunny follows Greg, a bunny, in his new job working at a children's tv show in a world where humans and puppets coexist. It's hard to believe that in a show with Sarah Silverman, the puppets say the filthiest things.

Early Ventriloquism

ventriloquism used to be considered a supernatural thing. It wasn't just because dummies look like they could come alive and murder you. Long before ventriloquism was entertainment, it was widely believed that the belly talkers were channeling the words of gods, spirits, or demons. This belief didn't die out until the 18th century. CRACKED.COM

Audrey II

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Audrey II LICOR Fot Di Oc As far as the word Rude goes, forcing a human to kill and gather people for you to eat while you grow to a massive alien size taking over the entire store you work at, is pretty rude!

Statler & Waldorf

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Statler & Waldorf Statler& Waldorf are legends in the puppet insult comedy game. The two debuted in 1975 on the pilot episode of The Muppet Show and after nearly 50 years of throwing insults from the balcony, these 2 old men are still not dead.

Alf

The non-human was difficult, but the human made it work. ALF Paul Fusco, creator, puppeteer, and voice of ALF praised Max Wright for creating comedic chemistry with ALF, because he was a serious theater actor who hated being the foil for a puppet. Не and fellow castmates called the production a nightmare. CRACKED.COM

E.T.

Elliott (Samuel Ludlow) and the world fell in love with 3 different actors and 3 mechanical puppets. E.T. SFX artist Carlo Rambaldi took 6 months and $1.5 million to create the puppets and a costume for a 12-year-old without legs, and a mime (voiced by 3 separate actors). CRACKED.COM

Michael Caine

Michael Caine loves The Muppets THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Не said, It's like talking to a real actor. You always get a couple of actors who think too much of themselves. But these were all kind, gentle, loving people and I had the best time. CRACKED.COM

Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele Не started out as a puppeteer. Peele studied Puppetry at Sarah Lawrence College, which allowed him to see his own body as a puppet (great for comedy) and was a possible outlet to combine visual aesthetic and theatrical performance (great for directing). CRACKED.COM

Source: Time

Fozzie Bear

Fozzie Bear is named after his puppet builder Faz Fazakas. Fazakas earned the honor after designing the mechanism that allows Fozzie's ears to wiggle. CRACKED.COM

Source: CNN

The Croissant Road in Team America: World Police

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Ooh la la, the fresh-baked streets of PARIS et Liame TEAM AMERICT CRACKED.COM It's a subtle tribute, but the 'cobblestone' streets of puppet-Paris are actually paved with croissants. C'est incroyable!

Screenrant

The Opening Sequence in Team America: World Police

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS The film parodied all things BRUCKHEIMER CRACKED.COM One early concept was doing a puppet-version of Day After Tomorrow, but that was a legal nightmare. Instead, the movie became a parody of over-the-top, jingoistic blockbusters. Jerry Bruckheimer, not Kim Jong-II, is the real target.

Slate  

The Muppet SPA’AM

The makers of SPAM sued Jim Henson because of the muppet SPA'AM. When Jim Henson introduced evil pig puppet SPA'AM, Hormel claimed that a grotesque and noxious appearing wild boar who was the incarnation of evil in porcine form would turn people off SPAM. The judge thought that was ridiculous. CRACKED.COM

Source: Deseret

The Sex Scene in Team America: World Police

How do you keep a puppet-on-puppet sex scene in your movie and still escape the dreaded NC-17 rating? Simple. Add a golden shower sequence. Trey Parke

Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart was a puppeteer. His puppet show aimed to teach kids how to behave towards disabled people. CRACKED

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

MARSHALL Jason Segel wrote a SARAH DRACULA PUPPET MUSICAL in real life. In his early twenties, FORTE Segel wrote songs for the super serious musical. WHEN HE PLAYED SOME OF THE SCENES SONGS TO JUDD APATOW, HE WAS Lu TOLD TO NEVER EVER PLAY IT FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AGAIN.

NPR

Blue’s Clues

Blue's Clues BLUE'S ROOM CRACKED COM This I-puppet spinoff, which actually overlapped with the real deal for 3 years, revealed that Blue could talk th

The Nightmare Before Christmas

They used a very old-school trick to make Zero look like a ghost. To make him look like a ghost, they shot a transparent mirror showing the puppet (wh

Source: Yahoo!

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