Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits's "Hell Broke Luce"

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/03/it-was-geoff-geoff.html

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Perfect.
 

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Brilliant. Wow.

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He’s a goddamned national treasure. You decide who I’m talking about.

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The footage for that mash-up isn’t just any Sesame Street footage—it’s from Follow that Bird! An underrated Muppet classic.

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He and his wife, who writes the lyrics.

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It’s a wonderful thing.

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I find it amazing how well the Big Bird suits work as actual characters. I find it really hard to picture the puppeteer inside, who probably can’t see where they are going, and have to keep acting with one arm over their heads, and yet can hit their marks and run down a street.

He had a crib sheet…

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It must be totally exhausting; and that pinching movement to operate the long bill has got to be murder on the tendons of the hand.

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In a studio it must be like a portable sauna. You wouldn’t get me inside this if it had an AC unit.

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The worst has got to be Mr. Snuffleupagus, cuz his two puppeteers are exposed to each other’s body odor.

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Does this belong here?

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Wait, there’s a Mrs. Cookie Monster?!

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Yes. so does this I reckon:

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