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I have read (Lewis Chester's book 'Tooth And Claw The Inside Story Of Spitting Image', its also mentioned in a Tibby's Bowl/Muppet Central Interview) that when Spitting Image's pilot episode was in production, Louise Gold insisted the puppeteers work out with dumbells, just get them fit/ their...

As someone who got seriously interested in The Muppets via being a fan of one of the puppeteers, yes when I'm watching the memorable moments it does cross my mind. What about when they have to cope with Special Effects, - such as Dust storms (Pigs In Space). I can't really think of any...

She certainly does. In fact she's currently employed playing a rather minor principal (and a villian at that) in the West End production of Mary Poppins, at the Prince Edward Theatre (a theatre which seventeen years ago she played Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes at, and about six years ago she...

Well you guessed right. - I couldn't be sure to begin with if you'd already guessed or not. It was indeed the British actress (sometimes desribed as "An English Ethel Merman", amongst other descriptions) Louise Gold. - She's a terrific singer (perhaps not to every musical theatre fan's taste -...

Are you joking or are you serious?

It's A Small Word is by the Sherman brothers, isn't it. Who currently have two big stage versions of film musicals going around the world (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins). As a matter of fact, a few years ago now, I saw one of my favourite musical theatre actresses do a cabaret...

I don't know whether Annie Sue would be counted as a minor character, but if she is then I'd have to include her, of course. As for the others well: Lou-The-Jugband-Lady Rizzo (in his TMS days - he was quite minor then) Pops The Doorman Eric The pengiun Gaffer Fish singer...

The sometimes outrageous Big Mamma (sometimes known as Mean Mama).

Pigs In Space gets my vote

But Mean Mamma/Big Mamma did have a semi-regular performer. True she was performed by various puppeteers at one time or another, but didn't Louise do her more often than anyone else. And more memorably/

But of course Louise was already an actress before she became a puppeteer (stage school kid and all that). It's just that she wasn't all that well known, but she had spent four years acting in regional theatre tours before joining The Muppets. Even during TMS's day she still acted on stage...

Back in the days before we all had mobile phones and ringtones, who rememebers having to go to the phone box and use a phone card when you were out and about? Well it wasn't so long ago. In fact about 10 years ago phone cards were still current enough that BT issued a special 'Muppet' set...

Recently on a thread, Travellingpat said of the Muppeteers "Hey these guys are famous in our eyes" Yet they don't often get recognised as such by a wider audience. But just occasionally they do actually get the recognition/role they deserve. There was one such occurrence about a week and a half...

Well I think my favourite is on the Steve Martin ep of TMS, when the All Food Glee Club are on. One of the vegetables says "Tomato you're slow", and the tomato replies "I'll Ketch-up" - It's a good joke anyway, and then there is the added touch that one does just wonder if there was a little...

Are there any You Tube Sesame fans out there who are good at spotting which way round a puppet is being performed (left or right handed)? Because if so I'd appreciate your help (my internet connection isn't fast enough). Someone told me they were recently watching some Sesame Street clips on...

I know these are two very unlikely choices, I mean they're probably not famous enough mainstream (evne if they are not insignificant performers). Anyway If the emphasis should be on "actors", then out of the Muppeteers I'd say Fran Brill and Louise Gold are perhaps worthy of consideration...

Aquarious or Age Of Aquarious is from the Galt Mcdermott musical 'Hair'. Nit only has it been done on TMS. But oddly enough there is one TMS Muppeteer who made their Musical Theatre debut in a production of 'Hair' in Sunderland, and yes they had to sing THAT song.

I'd go for saying they look more or less like their puppeteers: well Slim Wilson does look a lot like Jerry would look without a beard (did he always have one in his TMS days?). And Lou-The-Jugband-Lady does bear an uncanny resemblence to a certain redheaded West End actress (at least when that...

I think that the "Jousting Scene From Camelot" in the Pearl Bailey episode, while for the most part very interesting and innovative; is totally spoilt by the 'Ascot Gavotte' - That number just shouldn't have been there.

Well interestingly TMS puppeteer Louise Gold is no ventriloquist either, but in 1987 she got cast in the role of Sister Amnesia in the OLC of Nunsense, mainly because that character has to do a bad ventriloquist act. Apparently her performance of it was a showstopper. Emma...