But what about Clifford, Digit, or Dougie Colon ... It wasn't just old characters and situations that Muppets Tonight gleefully resurrected. Old jokes and entire sketches made their way back ...

WHILE previewing Friday’s premiere episode of ABC’s “Muppets Tonight! ” series, I watched Miss Piggy throw a typical roundhouse punch at Clifford, the new show’s Muppet host, that sent ...

So a muppet named Clifford, “your homey made of foamy,” becomes host and scrambles each week to fill the time. Tonight he double books, inviting both Miss Piggy and Michele Pfeiffer to be ...

Don’t get us wrong. We love The Muppets. Everybody loves the Muppets. But we love some Muppets more than others, because some Muppets are better than others, while some made us groan whenever ...

a new Rastafarian Muppet (“I’m Clifford,” he says to introduce himself, “your Homey made of foamy”), while other fresh “Muppets Tonight! ” faces include Miss Piggy’s dimwitted ...

The late, great Prince was given his very own Muppets Tonight episode in September 1997 ... Pepe the King Prawn, Clifford, Gonzo, Rizzo the Rat and Bobo the Bear. Most wholesome moment: The ...

In Muppets Tonight, the variety show format of the original ... with Kevin Clash’s character Clifford promoted to the hosting role. Henson intended for the show to work as a launchpad for ...

dreadlock-wearing hipster who presented Muppets Tonight in the 1990s. Muppet Magic: Clifford debuted in The Jim Henson Hour , where he was the bassist in Muppet band Solid Foam. Greatest Moment ...

Muppets Tonight was hosted by a new Muppet, Clifford, the “homey made of foamy”. That by itself creates a pretty clear impression of where the younger Henson was trying to go with the show.