Muppet Voice Comparisons

[Canadian Fan]

Found a cool YouTube channel featuring voice comparions of classic muppet characters performed by different puppeteers.

Kermit (Jim Henson & Steve Whitmire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tkT9K8S_Kk

Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz & Eric Jacobson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP63OwxQIn0

Sam The American Eagle (Frank Oz, Kevin Clash & Eric Jacobson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsugkqnEBkY

The Swedish Chef (Jim Henson, David Rudman, Dave Goelz & Bill Baretta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIURE9Ar4CU

The Muppet Newsman (Jim Henson, Brian Henson & Steve Whitmire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlGgqjA1p5A

Staler & Waldorf (Jim Henson & Jerry Nelson, Jim Henson & Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz & Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz & Steve Whitmire, Victor Yerrid & Drew Massey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6BZ_2J5sU0

It's so interesting to compare the voices.

 

[beakerfan76]

I've seen these and noticed some changes in the overall tones (Statler and Waldorf are the most apparent, while the Chef nowadays sounds just like Jim, Kermit's a little higher pitched, Fozzie and Sam are almost unchanged, and the Newsman has some considerable changes, mainly Brian sounding like Van Neuter)

 

[Canadian Fan]

Miss Piggy had three different performers: Richard Hunt, Frank Oz, and Eric Jacobson. Jerry Nelson and Fran Brill performed her on early specials before she was known as Miss Piggy.

Eric Jacobson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcgoacDQihY

Frank Oz (the version most people are familiar with):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhbF5u9yMkU

Richard Hunt (who performed Miss Piggy for part of season 1 of The Muppet Show):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspdA9hffQo

 

[beakerboy12]

The Swedish Chef (Jim Henson, David Rudman, Dave Goelz & Bill Baretta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIURE9Ar4CU

Actually, from what I learned at the Dave Goelz event in Missouri. Dave didn't perform the Chef in Muppets From Space. Just to point that out.

 

[Canadian Fan]

Actually, from what I learned at the Dave Goelz event in Missouri. Dave didn't perform the Chef in Muppets From Space. Just to point that out.

Obviously, the person who did the video (not me, btw) didn't know that. IMDB also made the same mistake. It sure doesn't sound like Dave's voice to me (and I can usually tell who's doing the voices).

 

[Canadian Fan]

Bumping this thread to bring a couple of new voice comparisons

Janice (Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Richard Hunt, Brian Henson, Tyler Bunch, and David Rudman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJe-6RG6soY

Lew Zealand (Jerry Nelson & Bill Barretta)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKZYqlf3CFA

 

[CensoredAlso]

Bumping this thread to bring a couple of new voice comparisons

Janice (Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Richard Hunt, Brian Henson, Tyler Bunch, and David Rudman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJe-6RG6soY

Actually I believe Richard Hunt also performed and voiced Janice when the Muppets performed on The Cher Show in 1975. It sounded completely different than the voice he came up with later!

But good video anyway!

 

[Dearth]

The link for Sam the American Eagle in the first post is no longer any good. That version was removed by the user, possibly to tweak the edit.

Try this one instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUhnXhadHU

Neat idea for videos. They need less text in between the voice clips, in my opinion, so you can hear the differences one right after the other. Maybe just solid clips with subtitles at the bottom for who is doing the voice.

Alex

 

[Canadian Fan]

The person who posted those videos said that they were working on a Scooter video.

Out of all of the recasts of Janice since Richard's death, I feel that David Rudman does the best job, his voice is close to Richard's.

 

[Canadian Fan]

Scooter (Richard Hunt, Adam Hunt, Brian Henson, Rickey Boyd, and David Rudman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CAkEnUFTJ8