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is the creator of The Muppets and The Muppet Show, the most popular and

successful show ever syndicated in television.

He's created a new show for NBC which airs Friday nights from 8 to 9 p .m.

called The Jim Henson Hour. Please welcome Jim Henson.

Well, you do terrific work.

Thank you. So do you. You do some neat stuff. You know, we have a clip. I

haven't seen the show, but we have a clip, and I just saw a few seconds of it

when they were running it earlier today. Can we just show that before we kind of

get started?

Well,

the show is sort of a combination.

Part of it is like The Muppet Show into the 80s. It's kind of a high -tech

version of The Muppet Show.

And then part of the show is also an assortment of other things. We have...

The Storyteller series that we did on NBC, that's on some of the time. Yeah.

then we just finished shooting a Miss Piggy in Hollywood here last week.

And that's going to be on later on.

And so it's a number of different kinds of things.

Don't get it. Take a look.

And now the undersea world of Jacques Roach.

We have been aboard our ship, the Boobaloo, for many months.

All is well, but I think the crow is feeling a little... Hey, Captain

When are we going to surface?

Yeah, we've been down here for months.

Are you saying that your soul has not been stirred by the salooned mystery of

the dip? The dip? What mystery of the dip? It's just cream cheese and instant

onion soup. And has your heart not rejoiced and soared each and every night

we sing the theme song of our ship?

The sheep have a theme song? I didn't even know we were in this sketch.

Ah, boogaloos, it places you've been to. That's it. We're out of here. We're

jumping ship.

Jump sheep?

You cannot jump sheep.

I should say not.

As

you

can see, Carmen has joined us.

Hi there. Yes, yes. We brought the sheep along for Loretta here.

I couldn't look at the sheep, actually.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That was a sheep joke.

That's a cheap joke.

Why NBC, Kermit? What made you... Well, I don't know. I got a lot of friends

over here, you know. The NBC peacock?

Yeah, sure.

He's a good friend of mine.

Yeah, he's very proud.

But a colorful character.

Yeah.

That's all I can do with that.

They treat you good, don't they?

Oh, yeah. I know the feeling.

Yeah, they do treat me very good. You know, they have flies on the menu of the

NBC commissary now. Really? Yeah.

Exactly. I didn't realize that. Yeah. How about Miss Piggy now? I imagine

well.

Yeah.

running with Miss Piggy, am I not mistaken? Yeah, I went to London to do

show. And all the way over there, I thought, Lord, am I going over there to

to a bunch of dummies, you know?

Not dummies. Oh, I'm sorry, Kermit. I mean, you know.

So I couldn't believe it.

But listen,

I'll tell you, it was the greatest thing that ever happened. You were great,

too. She stayed in the beautician.

In the beauty shop. He wouldn't come out because she's jealous of me.

Really? Really.

How about Ponzi Bear? Is he on the new... Well, he's been around... He

here and works at the comedy clubs.

I didn't know. He's doing stand -up now?

No, he's parking cars.

He's trying to get inside, though. Any minute now, you know.

Come on, you never did stand -up, did you?

Well, you know, the only time, the closest time I came to doing stand -up

when I did this show.

That's what you hosted.

I was the host of the show one time.

Anybody remember that? I don't remember that.

Did you do a monologue?

Yes, I did.

Actually, I was out here and I was doing a monologue and we... This is funny

because I was going to tell the story and Kermit can't tell the story.

Oh, he can't? No, he can't tell the story. But he's strangely quiet now, I

We don't talk at the same time. No. No, because what was funny is that I had

said to Frank, because they gave me a stand -up routine for Kermit, and he had

never done anything like that. And so I told Frank, who does Fozzie Bear, and I

said, listen, if this thing starts dying, please come out with Fozzie and

interrupt and you can rescue me.

And so I started off, and Kermit really did very well. Yeah.

And the routine was going very, very well.

And I was about a third of the way into it, and out came Fozzie to rescue me.

Oh, there you go.

But it was fun. The whole experience of hosting a show was a wild one.

Well, this is good.

We'll have to try it again coming.

Well, sometime.

Okay. And we'll be right back.

I want to thank my guest, Loretta Lynn. Thank you. And you go to Harris this

week.

Tom Brokaw, who had to run.

And Jim, thank you very much. Good luck with the new show. It's on Friday nights

at 8 to 9. 8 o 'clock. 8 o 'clock. It's really exciting.

And I'm off to Acapulco and Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh and Fordham and then

Wheeling, West Virginia. So we'll see you in a while.

Thanks, folks. Thank you.

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