
To celebrate the release of The Muppet Show on Disney+, here’s a brand-new excerpt from the Muppet Show chapter of Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography, to give you a sense of Hunt’s role on the show. Enjoy!
Continue readingTo celebrate the release of The Muppet Show on Disney+, here’s a brand-new excerpt from the Muppet Show chapter of Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography, to give you a sense of Hunt’s role on the show. Enjoy!
Continue readingI’m so pleased that Disney+ will be releasing The Muppet Show! To celebrate, I’ll be releasing an excerpt from that section of Hunt’s biography, so you can read about behind the scenes of what you’re watching! Stay tuned!
RIP to the marvelous Cloris Leachman. Here she is with Richard Hunt on The Muppet Show.
Check out my new review in the Indypendent of two recent biographies of important feminist icons Andrea Dworkin and Adrienne Rich!
Dave Goelz gave a great shoutout to Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography in this recent podcast. “There’s a woman writing a book about him which I’m always after her to get finished, because I want to read it. It looks like it’s going to be really, really good.”
Don’t worry, Dave and everyone, I’m working as fast as I can! (The shoutout is around the 1:17:00 mark.)
Thinking of Hunt today on the 19th anniversary of his death.
Happy Birthday, Richard Hunt! In honor of this special day, here’s a new excerpt from Hunt’s biography, about his first major Muppet character, the “exquisitely sensitive” construction worker Sully on Sesame Street. Continue reading