Kermit on FunnyOrDie with Steve Martin

[charlietheowl]

Fun video! I hope more videos like this pop up soon with a movie to promote.

 

[FrackleFan2012]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e0...-kermit-the-frog-in-dueling-banjos?rel=player

Seems almost like a lost Muppet Show bit (and yeah, I know he did it on the show). But that punchline...um.

Great video! First, Steve Martin playing banjo with Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers and now, him playing with Kermit! It finally happened.

 

[FrackleFan2012]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e0...-kermit-the-frog-in-dueling-banjos?rel=player

Seems almost like a lost Muppet Show bit (and yeah, I know he did it on the show). But that punchline...um.

Great video! First, Steve Martin playing banjo with Lubbock Lou and his Jughuggers and now, him playing with Kermit! It finally happened.

 

[JimAndFrank]

Well, now that my life has been completed with this awesome video, I don't care what happens next! Just bring it on!!!

 

[minor muppetz]

Does anybody find it weird that this was made for a website called "Funny or Die", yet there's no humor until the end? This would have been better for the Muppet Studios YouTube channel.

 

[ToodlesTeam]

Wow, that was awesome. Definitely one of the best online Muppet videos in a long time. Reminds of that old Target ad with Brad Paisley and Kermit, though this was definitely better!

 

[minor muppetz]

Quite a few people have said that Kermit and Steve Martin should have done this a long time ago, but Kermit is associated with the banjo more than he has actually played it. Outside of The Muppet Movie and later performances of The Rainbow Connection (and in a bit of merchandise), he really hasn't played the banjo that often. A few non-Rainbow Connection examples include a brief scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan (during the "You Can't Take No for an Answer" montage) and at the beginning of The Muppets at Walt Disney World.

In fact I don't associate Steve Martin with the instrument much, either. When I first saw his episode of The Muppet Show I did, and then I learned he was a comedian instead of a musician and didn't.

 

[panmanthe2nd]

Wow, that was great. Kermit's banjo playing is still on top form!

 

[Twisted Tails]

He's about 58 years old now.

Wow! My dad is definetely around his 50s... even Steve around that age too.

 

[Drtooth]

Quite a few people have said that Kermit and Steve Martin should have done this a long time ago, but Kermit is associated with the banjo more than he has actually played it. Outside of The Muppet Movie and later performances of The Rainbow Connection (and in a bit of merchandise), he really hasn't played the banjo that often. A few non-Rainbow Connection examples include a brief scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan (during the "You Can't Take No for an Answer" montage) and at the beginning of The Muppets at Walt Disney World.

In fact I don't associate Steve Martin with the instrument much, either. When I first saw his episode of The Muppet Show I did, and then I learned he was a comedian instead of a musician and didn't.

As I said before, while the younger Steve Martin used banjo as part of his schtick, the older, more mature (and less insanely wacky) Steve is an accomplished, respectable, banjo performer. In fact, a lot of his talk show appearances as of late, he was the musical guest, plugging his music.

While I'd love to say this is a skit that Steve and Kermit should have done on The Muppet Show, the reality is, he wasn't at that stage of his career and comedic style yet. That would be like asking young Picasso to paint his Cubist paintings when he was still doing realistic ones.