Is there an understudy for Jerry Nelson?

[dwayne1115]

In that past few muppet movies Jerry has been sick and not been able to do his muppets and im just wondering if there is going to be an understudy for some of them, like Robin and Floid. anyone know anything .

 

[muppet_dk]

Don't know anything for sure.
But Lew Zealand was performed by Bill Baretta on "It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie". And they thought that he did such a good job that they keept his voice in the movie, insteed of having Jerry to dub the voice.
So he'll proberly continue doing Lew from now on.

 

[teebs]

...im just wondering if there is going to be an understudy for some of them, like Robin and Floid.

I know I would hate to see someone else perform his signature characters. No one could perform Floyd the way Jerry does. That being said, I do think Bill did a pretty good job with Lew.

It's really a hard subject because we all love Jerry and don't want to see him replaced. He says he still wants to perform, but his undefined health issues prevent that for the time being. All we can do is hope he gets well enough to come back.