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Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 3 August 2022 02:21
Played by: The Great Gonzo (Dave Goelz)
Distinguishing features: 19th century attire, including top hat; large blue nose; uncertain ethnic origin. Indeed, uncertain planetary origin.
Typical line: “I told you, storytellers are omniscient; I know everything!”
What to give him for Christmas: A cannon. Let’s face it, he’s more naturally suited to being fired from cannons.
When you are trying to cast Charles Dickens, titan of English literature and enthusiastic writer of Christmas-set stories, you naturally need an actor with gravitas, with a bold personality and with immense personal appeal to communicate Dickens’ genius and huge personality. Who else, then, than The Great Gonzo, a performer so committed that he regularly fires himself out of cannons with only the most minimal of safety equipment and who engages in groundbreaking live work like eating a rubber tyre to the tune of Flight Of The Bumblebee? What’s that? Simon Callow? Don’t be silly: he’s not even blue. In any case, Gonzo’s performance in The Muppet Christmas Carol is his most restrained and literate ever, just proving that he was the right muppet for the job, and his comic double-act with Rizzo the Rat a constant delight.
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