"Muppet Babies ... there's a new baby joining Kermit and Gonzo on their adventures of the imagination: a purple penguin named Summer. "It was me and our art director Chris Moreno sitting in ...

Where did the idea for Gonzo come from? While creating "The Muppet Show," our head writer Jerry Juhl suggested a character who did these dreadful stunts but thought they were high art. Jim pulled ...

Goelz: I had some input into Gonzo. The puppet was originally built by Jim [Henson] for another thing a few years before—The Great Santa Claus Switch starring Art Carney and the Muppets.

Dave Goelz, a Muppet performer for 50 years, is the man behind the scratchy-voiced Gonzo, a distinctive blue puppet with the nose of an anteater. Though Goelz spends his time behind the scenes ...