During its five-season run between 1976 and 1981, The Muppet Show featured so many celebrity guests, many musicians, who took part in some of the show’s absurdist comedy sketches.

When it comes to the Muppets, just about everyone can name the A-listers. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf and the gang are literally everywhere. They’ve starred in multiple TV ...

“The Muppet Show” made its much-anticipated debut on Disney+ on Friday, but not with all of the 120 episodes from Jim Henson’s iconic variety series. Currently, Disney+ features 118 of those ...

The Muppets have been part of the pop culture landscape since 1955, when Jim Henson and his future wife Jane Nebel created Sam and Friends, a series produced for WRC-TV in Washington, DC, but for ...

But even though it was the first sketch on The Muppet Show, it wasn’t the first time it’s been performed. The song itself, composed by Piero Umiliani, has a complicated history.

The Muppet Show was required viewing if you were born in the ’70s. ... The show was depicted as a variety show that featured sketches and musical numbers from celebrity guests.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A handwritten pitch and drawings for the television pilot episode of "The Muppet Show" by creator Jim Henson are among items being sold at an upcoming sale of Hollywood ...

All five seasons of The Muppet Show are heading to Disney+. In addition to the first three seasons of the iconic series, Seasons 4 and 5, which have never previously been released on home ...

Classic Sketches, Returning Favorites: Inside ‘The Muppets’ Midseason Reboot. New showrunner Kristin Newman talks with THR about how she plans to bring more "joy" to the series: Adding a human ...

Something that makes this more than a bit of red meat for Muppet oldheads or a bit of historical record that you can likely trace any stand-out sketch/variety show of the last 40 years back to in ...

“The Muppet Show” stars Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, the Swedish Chef, and more in “a groundbreaking twist on the classic variety show, blending original songs, sketch ...