Kim W. on Puppet Current Events 2

I'm finding that puppets are turning up in some arguably unusual places lately.  Cookie Monster showing up suddenly on SNL last weekend was just one example.  But I've found some others:

• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is old hat by now, but probably raised a couple eyebrows when he first debuted in 1997.  He's arguably enough of a hit that NBC made sure he was one of the "intellectual property" items that Conan O'Brien couldn't take with him when he left the TONIGHT show.
• The Sci-Fi show "Farscape" was an Australian/American show that ran in the early 2000's.  The Henson company was associated with some of the special effects -- and two of the regular characters, "Rygel" and "Pilot," were Henson-company designed puppets.
• Craig Ferguson's LATE SHOW has been traditionally doing very, very silly things with the show's opening; before they run the opening credits, they usually have a musical production number, featuring Craig Ferguson and his cast either singing or lip-syncing and dancing to a particular song.  Sometimes the song has something to do with the show (they wrote lyrics for the DOCTOR WHO theme song when the show's star, Matt Smith, was on recently), and sometimes, it...doesn't.  And just to cap off the silliness, these segments are often introduced by a bunny puppet, named "Sid", and sometimes they feature shark or camel puppets to join in the action.

My own favorite clips are below: Craig and his cast -- including three puppets wearing fezes -- lip-synching to They Might Be Giants' cover of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"...

...and Sid the Bunny introducing Adam Savage and Jaime Hyneman when they joined in on a rendition of Modern English's song "Melt With You".