Don't know if anyone noticed, but a Muppet made it back on Saturday Night Live again this past weekend. The host for the night of December 18th was Jeff Bridges -- and in his opening monologue, he brought out...Cookie Monster. There was some flannel about how Cookie Monster had "always wanted to host the show," and he and Jeff Bridges sang an alternative version of the song "Silver Bells."
Today's NEW YORK TIMES arts blog pointed out something else interesting about the event, though. At the show's end, when the cast was assembled onstage for their final bows and goodnights, they also brought out Cookie Monster -- and the two puppeteers who were working him, who were letting themselves "be visible." The TIMES blog made a big deal of that -- they hadn't ever remembered a Henson puppeteer let themselves be SEEN working a puppet. However, most of the readers comments on the blog all said the same thing -- "...honestly, I didn't really notice the puppeteers, I was just looking at Cookie Monster."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Most people are calling this a random sort of appearance, but in point of fact the Sesame Street folk created a parody "petition" video a few weeks back - a la Betty White - for C.M. to host SNL. I suppose this was the closest he was allowed to get.]
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