Ya the man is funny

Agreed

Yeah... He improvised ALL those question responses.

Amen to that!

2 comedic geniuses that will never be replaced

yeah he was a talent not mached.

Ventriloquist skilled...

That's some flawless multitasking.

And yet he doesn't find it necessary to talk TO them because cmon.. that's just masturbatory. I mean Shari Lewis does that, and she works it. But Jim knows people aren't that into him compared to his characters.

And gets offended at that 🤣🤣🤣 I love how everything was in full character

He never made me laugh I hate the little frog.

I know exactly what you mean man

@@jackwatson3944 then why would you waste your time watching this video, then commenting on it?

@@seanorlando5932 I like watching old Carson clips that's why this was in my recommended and I've never seen the other bloke before... Don't get annoyed cos I don't like Kermit the frog, chill out.

@@jackwatson3944No one disses Kermit the frog and gets away with it, no excuses! Lol

It’s real big with all the frogs out there.

A frog puppet operated by a human, saying he has "a person in his throat" is clever AF👌

It reminds me of that old joke where two flies are standing around and one of them says to the other "Hey, your man's undone."

@@gspendlove 🤣

It's such a telegraphed line.

You and the camera lol

He doesnt even need to pretend to be a ventriloquist with no mouth movements. You can see Jim's mouth moving but I can't convince myself that Kermit isnt talking

Carson said it himself, how captivating it was to be there with Henson and his imagination.

He’s purposefully not looking at Henson.

Edgar Bergen was a success on radio with Charlie McCarthy. During one rehearsal, the sound man noticed a drop on Charlie's lines. He finally realized the man on the boom mike was new, and was moving it to Charlie when he "spoke"!

I watched for that a bit and I think he was some. Not trying to be the perfect contorted face of the ghastly professionals but, at least at times, trying for a good deal of stillness. There was one short frog quip that I noticed he didn't move a bit. But I think the more important part of "ventriloquize" that he didn't do was be a ventriloquist act. Those are such crap. He had a very different take on who... what the participants are what they were there for. Even Bergen did a ventriloquist act. Henson was just out there with his friends/co-workers doing an interview show.

he was quick with the wit, and the expressiveness of the muppets takes everyone in. They just start talking to the muppet as if it was alive.

He wasn't a ventriloquist. He was a puppeteer. 🙂

Exactly my point. Even without being one, he shifted focus off of his own voice and onto the muppet with incredible skill.

Jim's always been comfortable with the fact that he doesn't hide his moving lips. Whenever he breaks out one of his Muppet characters and speaks through them, the audience automatically diverts their attention away from Jim and to the character. It's how it always is with puppeteers.

Jim was fucking genius.

And/or is good enough to know not to stop; and to pull it off.

Indeed! Genius timing and multitasking.

I've heard all the Muppeteers are like that with their alter egos.

Its important for making the character feel present You have to make it act like a Independent person, or else people will just think of the puppet as a puppet and thus not be as interested

He’ had a gift

No its 95 percent Ernie

@@fargeeks Well, Jim is about 47 percent Ernie and 49 percent Kermit, leaving 4 percent as the real Jim!

Kermit has alot of personality.

@@dylangatenby9928 - and, as he famously said, "It ain't easy being green." I think it would've been cool to have him discuss it with Shrek, though. Fortune passes everywhere.

@Nickhead87 Something about a Fireman or something, I didn't pay attention to it.

He was a pure genious How happy he made so many people all over the world unreal

Jim Henson sense of humor Is so evident here He is the adult humor behind children humor that we all have

@@kmn9181 He was a MASTER OF HIS CRAFT! I LITERALLY SOBBED WHEN HE DIED! Thankfully we have his ENORMOUS BODY OF WORK TO REMEMBER HIM BY! MAY HE REST IN PEACE. MEGA MUPPET/SESAME STREET FAN HERE

So very much!

Jim and Frank brought the Muppets and all the puppets to life. Sill watch the Muppet show to this day.

How did he operate both arm rods plus the mouth? I was looking all around for a good hiding space for a righthander. Then I saw Jim holding working both arm rods. That is, when my eyes were off Dr Teeth. :)

yes its acatly how you say it .. you looking the show like you are see two persons sitting there... its also because how they "interact" with eachother .. its ust brilliant

The camera does add to the completion of the suspension of disbelief… makes me wonder if this was live shot and edited or not. Does anyone know?

It’s like most forms of art, it’s a way of expressing something in ourselves, that we don’t usually feel comfortable doing in ‘real life’

Hi leo!

peak multitasking artistry

And Johnny Carson knew to drop it after that, unlike Arsenio Hall who was fixated on pushing the question during his interview with Mr.Henson and Kermit.

I think that good puppeteers are kinda squizophrenic people in the way they REALLY act like 2 different persons: themselves and their puppets; just by watching these appearences when some interviewer talks to them BOTH and how naturally each one of them answers wisely, funny and independently from each other even though one is just the hand of the other; see how Kermit STEALS the camera and Carson is talking directly to the frog instead of looking at Henson; amazing!

More alive and real than most people?

The Muppets Guest Hosted the Tonight show once and it was fantastic. Seeing Kermit at the desk talking with Ed was incredible.

@@Balthazar2242 some ppl fake there true expressions to make something up. It's a thing that works for ppl watching. (Like reaction videos if ppl start to scream or laught more then they would normaly do. (if at all) Like they "have to" show a reactions, as just let the true reaction happen. If you play a puppet, you know there expessions, because it's a "made up" characteristic, but because it's a puppet, you don't think about over reacting or something. But the same happen to actuall ppl, and this make them more acting like a puppet as a human. Reacting in a way they would not do, if they private (if that's makes sence. sry, english is not my native language)

@@Balthazar2242 because most people are fake.

Now THAT is Henson level humour!😂

In my mind they really are. Always have been

They really do apprear sentient, even when Jim is focused on the conversation with Johnny, Dr. Teeth continues to look around listen to the conversation and nods in agreement / acknowledgement. He is for all intents and purposes, part of the conversation.

Well, they kinda are. Maybe some kind of hidden personality. Like a role some people play. It is a long forgotten art of using someone elses imagination in sync with yours...

They could master CGI all they want but nothing can come close to what a guys like Jim Henson and Frank Oz could do with a puppet. You know they arent real but you cant help but forget and next thing you know your talking to a frog and a pig lost in a humorous conversation

Muppets are real sentient beings on this planet. Humans are the fake creatures here. 🤣😂🤣😂

There's a reason that the original non-CGI Yoda was such a believable on-screen character. Henson's handy-work again.

FreihEitner cgi Yoda is pretty good as well

@@FreihEitner Frank Oz, actually, Henson's co-Muppeteer, but same principle.

rowan e I honestly wanna learn how he does that once I get a Kermit puppet!

Its fucking hilarious when he shifts his head like that lmao

yes haha ... i bet if you are setting next to him ... you (including myself) like to talk to kermit hahhaa .. true

Yes the dark crystal was ahead of it's time. The musical score was amazing too

I absolutely was scared and mesmerized by the Dark Crystal all at the same time. Never got to see the prequel on Netflix though.

I was driving to work when I heard he'd died. I bawled my eyes out, knowing the brilliance we had lost that day.

His death was also needless. He was a faith healer and waited to long before getting medical help. Died from pneumonia. What a waste.

Just to further compound what we missed on with his passing: - He was quite keen on joining or at least collaborating with Pixar. Just think on what that could've produced. - Disney was in talks to have him be the new 'Walt Disney', as in the creative face of the company who would be their public icon and spokesperson to the world. Again just think of what that would've been like.

Completely. He doesn't need to look - he just *knows* what's happening.

Yooo. ITS BOBSHEAX. WHAT'S GOOD, BRO!

Bobsheaux Ur SO right. He seems real and to look at him he’s a very basic puppet. Nothing fancy but Henson had such talent even grown adults are mesmerized by Kermit and the others too

he didn't need to be a ventriloquist , because he wasn't usually seen at all

I think had Kermit just used Jim's regular voice it would be a lot more distracting to differentiate from them.

Henson was such a brilliant man.

YES. 🤣

Any song made in 2020

It is they call it death metal

That’s the kind of music I make !

It describes the music so far this year 2021 because every song I heard made this year hasn’t been fantastic

Sesame Street did recently.

I think that before Henson’s untimely death, everyone thought that there would be plenty of time for honors.

Perhaps you create an online campaign to give Jim a posthumous Kennedy Award. I can see a super show put on by the cast of SS and a relative of Jim's accepting the award on his behalf. I'm old with worsening health and can't take on projets anymore but I can sign a petition. 🐸🐷

&& this information is not valid at alll . . Jim henson was never unrated at alll NEVERRRRRRRRR . . They gave this man his own show where he can do what he wanted to do . &&& He followed God's orders which was to making learning fun for kids. Make it so exciting and very educational so the kids come back the next day with more friends to be entertained for the one hour every day which was a blessing for some kids especially the ones who grew up in low proverty areas with drugs addicts parents and love ones especially inn the black communities so Jim Henson was a wonderful blessing to black kids especially back inn the 80s because we all know black kids at that time and still to this did not attend nice clean school was good educational resources To help them grow and prosper black kids has never received back then and now it's low-key a shame how seasme street has changed since the 2000s it's so Latin now . .everything is so Spanish on seasme street which nothing is wrong with your kid learning another language which is a career wise blessing it really is but damn can we see some black faces . . It's all Latin and white .. back in the 70s it's mostly black kids uu seen on seasme street when it to the word of the day and the number of the day . . Just different skits uuu seem it was inlvoing black kids we don't see it no more . .&&& It's a shame to say Jim Henson was unrated ..he did what other white folks wouldn't do . .. Jim was goat periodddd . .

Major props to Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, as they created Sesame Street itself and called in Henson to make special Muppets for the cast since they held children's attention well

Jim Henson passed away in early 1990.

@@kevinnelson66 Well to be more precise it was 1987 - 1995 that I worked for the show.

Found the frog.

Yep that was the best part!

And the comeback: "It´s a frog joke" OMG, keeping the illusion.

man that was visable a mile away xD it was still funny ^.^

100% very funny

Yeah

Kermit's like, "How rude! I'm right here!" 🤣🤣🤣

Kermit's self-awareness breaks Johnny up here (and me). Kermit's looking around like "What's this guy doing to me?" :D

It's really crazy because you can tell Jim already had that bit planned out a couple sentences in advance

The Talent Jim had was amazing, to be able to pull that off , you know it's a puppet but yet he (Henson) could make you suspend belief and forget that Kermit is only fabric and Ping Pong Balls...

There's a clip of Jim on The Arsenio Hall Show with Rowlf the dog and Kermit. I believe that interview was taped shortly before Jim passed away.

I dig the fuzz...

@Mr_Meanie "Angora" is a type of wool, ya know the thing sweater can be made from. "Nangora" is not even a word. Maybe don't condescend when you don't have your facts straight.

@Mr_Meanie "Nangora" isn't a word, it isn't a name, that's not the joke.

@Mr_Meanie Damn. I'm from Dubuque. Never met Nangora Sweater.

@Mr_Meanie I think you misunderstood the joke...

Kermit the frog ,when puppeteered by Jim, exhibited micro-expressions

Fun fact: one thing Henson does not mention about Kermit here is his head and mouth are made with thinner fabric than the rest of his body precisely so he can express subtle emotions. Henson found that doing so allowed his unusually large hands to convey much more varied expressions via minor shifts of his fingers while operating Kermit.

Kermit or Jim unfortunately did not have a love life . . .💔💔💔💔

Obviously before Kermit met Miss Piggy...

@@joerider3769 piggy and Kermit was not in a relationship during this time when he went on the johnny Carson show . .&&&& I personally feel jim henson was living though theses puppets especially Kermit . .

It's talent and applied motivation.

Credit also to people like Faz Fazakas, Bonnie Erickson, and Dave Goelz, as they designed and engineered a lot of the Muppets and are responsible for the way they emote.

It's as if Jim created beings rather than mere puppets.

By 1975, Jim Henson had set up the Muppet Creature Workshop and hired people to build the Muppets.

82 years young!

Merry Christmas, Elizabeth!

Yeah...

God Bless you, Elizabeth ✨🤍✨

@@luisenrique.smertin Thank you Mr. Enrique. I believe with God's grace we will see better days. Bless you and yours.

That was the great thing about The Muppets while Jim was still alive. He understood that they needed that attitude, they couldn't always be sweet. That is what seems to be missing now.

​@@dmrogers7713 100% agree. Kermit said sex, right? I wasn't surprised- but it was kinda like "Oh yeah. They were people". That short-lived ABC series they had some of the ole' bite in it.

I've always assumed most people were miserable in the 70s. Kind of like today.

Well, the belief was always that Kermit was Henson’s alter-ego. Not sure if that was the case, although I’m inclined to believe it.

So true.

I thought what a show it could have been had he lived to meet today's popular ventriloquists. I would love to see a Dr Tooth/Peanut dialogue exchange. Peanut might look at jeff and ask "Is he my father?"

Amen! ABSOLUTELY 100% RIGHT! NOTHING ELSE NEEDS TO BE SAID!

people really need to stop tossing that word around for anyone they like

@@jayocaine2946 . Unless, as is the case with Jim Henson, he happens to be a genius. Dictionary definition: a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect I don't "keep tossing that word around, " but I do use it for those who truly deserve it. I saw The Muppets the first time they were ever on tv. I had never seen anything like that before! It's 2021 & we are still watching The Muppets. I guess, I just have to "toss" the word. The late great Mr Jim Henson was a genius. Period.

Like Carson said "I'm talking to a frog". When I was watching this I didn't even realize it myself. Their interaction was just so natural. Jim was simply brilliant.

He said "dumb frog" and see how he reacts to that? So fast, so well said. Talking to pyppeteers who might be offended by that.

exactly, because Jim was THE marionettist!!

I saw Henson in another interview show along with Kermit; he admitted that he didn’t even try to be a ventriloquist. He also said he didn’t have to, because when the muppet was talking, no one was paying attention to him anyway.

This was a also the case with the kids on Sesame Street. Even though the human was often fully visible to them, they never took their attention off the Muppet

He spent most of the time under a table doing the voices, he was not nor claimed to be a ventriloquist

Nigga what

I lost it when he said that. LoL

I honestly don’t get it

@@laslo0728 Pubic hair

I don’t get that joke?

@@KennyG_420 You serious? *"You get a lot of chicks now? Lot of groupies?"* *"Well, you know, being a puppet, it's kind of different.... Head of my fan club is an angora sweater...* *Comes out of Debuke, Iowa... she's really fuzzy though -- oh yeah.... oh yeah....* *_--- dig that fuzz. ;)"_* (If you don't get the joke now, I'm sorry, but try to think of associations between fuzz and chicks and why would someone 'dig it' even though it's an angora sweater... this is what makes it hilarious. He snuck in a sex joke into something completely harmless, and only adults really would grasp it. A muppet basically said he likes girls that got some bush, without having to say anything of the sort. Man is a genius. )

Ben Kleschinsky

Exactly!

Now we've got wrong sounding muppets!

When Jim passed, the vision passed with him. The Muppets used to be funny and always entertaining. They made learning fun. Now it's lame. I can't even acknowledge it. I watched this and laughed out loud. I see the new sesame street and can't understand what the hell is going on and just change the channel. Yep. A sad day when Jim passed.

It hasn't been all bad, since Jim's passing. Just look at A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island and The Muppets movie and those Muppet clips from their KZfaq channel. And Muppets from Space wasn't so bad while not the best. Muppets Tonight wasn't as good as The Muppet Show but it was miles better than the new The Muppets. Let's hope they'll recover with help of the upcoming streaming series on Disney +. It's like Statler and Waldorf say "The only way they can go from here is up".

Then don't search "Kermit reacts to 2 girls 1 cup"

avinotion *Kermit watching 2 girls 1 cup* Kermit: I think I’m gonna-I-I’m gonna croak

One of the two Muppet Show pilots was called Sex and Violence.

LOL! Me too.

@@avinotion Okay.. now I'm just going to do that.

Actually, improvising was/is a big part of being a Muppeteer. They're famous for riffing non-stop between shots.

Jason Seigel had to rewrite the entire Muppet's reboot specifically because he referred to them as puppets in the original script

I think after a lot of the original puppeteers were replaced, they didn’t want to steal the spotlight from the original puppeteers, it wouldn’t make too much sense having an interview with kermits new puppeteer, considering how close Kermit was to Jim Henson

That's good to know, I always wondered if later generations could appreciate him the same way... thanks for sharing that.

Same I'm glad that even though he's gone we still see his legacy and the amazing things he created such as the Muppets

Me too, thank you for sharing, and not making me feel alone!

I feel that every time I watch an interview with Henson. The fact that he doesn't even attempt to hide his manipulation of the puppet or his lips moving, and yet everyone makes eye contact with the puppet as if it's a real person, because of how much life Henson is infusing into it.

Very hard to upstage a puppet.

@@tdunph4250 Think about it for a bit. You'll get it.

@@Qwazier3 thanks Professor. Let me work on it....

Only a puppet could upstage a puppet LOL

@@tdunph4250 You so silly. God to see you have a sense of ha ha...( =

I know he did tons of voices, but when I see the name Frank Welker, the character I first think of is 'Uni' from the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

(Agree)[d] Complete(l[y])

In the Muppet Movie, Dom DeLoise suggests that if Kermit went into show business he could be making millions of people happy. The way that sentiment affects Kermit is astounding. I feel Jim must have personally been dumbstruck by the idea at some point.

O_O what?!

the Captain Kangaroo bit killed me

Miss Piggy wasn’t a thing yet?

Miss Piggy has *Left Chat*

It's funny, I have a Kermit the Frog topiary in my front flower bed - just for fun - further out in the yard there's a full size giraffe. So, my Kermit is complete except for his collar, I don't know what to use as material. Any ideas? At first I thought of an aluminum can cut up. My giraffe has a macrame plant hanger rope tail. LOL. ( after typing all this my mind went right to what Johnny said at the end)

@@enelmench3098 Now now, don't rush things got plenty of time to think about it LOL! Actually I found it quite interesting when he said he cut a ping pong ball in half for Kermit's eyes - Mine? White rocks with their signature pupil shape. I killed several phal orchids before I finally got it right so now I have all these clips left over. Kermit is now holding a clip the shape of a dragonfly. I know, I know... the people with white coats and big Nets chase me all the time.

I could also mention I have Dino the dinosaur topiary, but I won't, I won't!

That's a nice way of saying I'm a space cadet!

@@enelmench3098 True, that's what I get for talking to one of those cool people everybody wants to be that lives in California and sports a man bun! I'm lucky he even talks to a commoner. Sire, what a wonderful coach and beautiful white Arabian horses you have, good day my Lord.

kermit is a nice frog

We would watch The Muppets and Hee Haw on Saturday nights.

@@Rob_Kates yeah Hee Haw for sure but I also remember watching Love Boat and Fantasy Island on Saturday nights as well

Must be a Gen Xer...because that was my childhood too!

Don't forget Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins

@@wendyflatt39 Sure enough! It was on the half hour before Wonderful World of Disney

Jim is probably watching a monitor, as they typically do.

@Rick Sanchez C137 What exactly are your prayers going to do for the deceased? Bring them back to life?

@@JanetStarChild lol

FunkYeah technically there are groups in the Catholic/Christian category that believe in purgatory...

@@GudrezBilly I still find it ironic that someone with their icon pic of Rick Sanchez would say something so asinine, considering that religious beliefs are completely dismantled in the Rick & Morty series.

Yeah, he wasn't planned to be the host but Nigel the conducter. Kermit only had a cameo in the pilot dancing with a woman in At the Dance, saying to her "I could get you a job for an educational show for kids", referring to Sesame Street.

@@mevb Yeah what a lousy line that was for him

Freddy Richards ..

I had no idea that was the case

@@danacoleman4007 yeah watch the pilot episode titled "Sex and Violence"

Don't forget Caroll Spinney who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

Dan Rowan is gone too; he passed away in 1987. He was one half of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a ground breaking show back then. They didn't show it but Johnny said Dan was coming out after the commercial.

Back in a time when they knew their job was to entertain and relax you at the end of a stressful day, *not* force their political beliefs on you like they were gospel...like today's crop (or should that be 'crap'?) of 'hosts'.

Same, mate. Same.

Mr. Chopsticks most definitely

Me too...I was 5

Yes same for me, and also Michael Landon which was around the same time.

I know that I cried that day.

you could not have said it better. Brilliantly madd. he will be missed.

This exactly. It's wild how different his personality changes, and how quick he becomes when he's puppeteering.

It is what it is. Current Muppet stuff is still creative and enjoyable. ..

@@Anth230 True. But the way I see it, the Muppets are like the Peanuts characters by Charles Schultz. The Peanuts characters i.e. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Peppermint Pattie, etc. were a part of Charles Schultz. The Muppets were a part of Jim Henson. Yes other Muppeteers performed the characters, but it was Jim Henson's brilliance who created these Muppet characters.

😭 there goes my childhood

@@dolphingurls8204 No it was gone a long time ago i think ....😂

@@Anth230 your right! Definitely💔

Well he did say he was unwell due to the human in his throat...😳

Kermit IS his own person.