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Apparently Cookie Monster is a video game developer and he really is sick of video games that feature zombies. Check out Cookie in the video at the link.
If you are as tired of the endless horde of zombie games as I am, you are not alone! Watch as Cookie Monster — possibly the greatest network executive since Jack Donaghy — gives video game maker Tim Schafer feedback on his new game idea and then comes up with his own, starring (you guessed it) monsters.
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Cookie Monster wants to branch out beyond his “cookie-eating career” and host Saturday Night Live. Here he recreates some familiar elements of the show and still manages to eat some cookies along the way. Do you think he has what it takes? You can show your support at his Facebook page. Link -via Breakfast Links
Holy Kaw has a quickie 5 fun facts about the Cookie Monster. I won’t reveal the entire fun list, but I did learn one fun thing about the lovable blue-haired, googlie-eyed Muppet:
Cookie’s real name is Sid.
Link | More than you’d ever want to know about the Cookie Monster at the Muppet Wiki
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Cookie Monster apparently began his life as a creepily toothed puppet in an IBM training video. Whether the technical information being conveyed is at all true, or simply for comic effect, I have no idea, but it’s interesting to see the original incarnation of one of Sesame Street’s (and Jim Henson’s) most famous creations.
Via Presurfer
Elizabeth Blair of NPR has interviewed many people, but she may have just met her match in Cookie Monster. From a February 2009 All Things Considered interview:
Years before Sesame Street, Muppet creator Jim Henson made a very similar monster who ate snack foods and computers in television commercials. The basic look and spirit were there, but the character we know today was still a ways off.
Enter puppeteer Frank Oz. For nearly 30 years, Henson and Oz were an extraordinary team. Cheryl Henson, Jim’s daughter and the president of the Jim Henson Foundation, says the two men shared a subversive sense of humor. Their Muppets were regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show.
It was later, on a Muppet game show, that the cookie-fixated creature we know emerged, Oz says. The winning contestant was offered the chance to choose a prize: a vacation, a new house, $10,000 cash, or a cookie. He chose the cookie — and the Cookie Monster was born.
Om nom nom nom … COOKIEEE!!! … Link | The Cookie Monster Interview [embedded YouTube clip]
