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After the first season, most of his monologues relied on gimmicks such as telling jokes on roller skates. A common schtick in many episodes is that Fozzie would attempt to imitate the guest star's most famous act in an attempt to emulate their success, only to comically fail completely at that attempt. For instance, Bergen Edgar Bergen inspired him to try ventriloquism while stage magician Doug Henning inadvertently convinced Fozzie to try his hand at being a magician.
Fozzie was crucial to The Muppet Show because he was conceived as Frank Oz's main character and the success of the show would depend on to a significant degree on Frank having the opportunity to display the full range of his virtuoso performance and comedic skills. And given the spirit of the Muppets, it was almost inevitable that he would be a bad comedian. The problem with Fozzie was that his bad jokes and failure to win over an audience provoked more embarrassment than sympathy.
For instance, in episode , Fozzie gets so fed up with the heckling that he demands everyone but true Fozzie fans leave the auditorium. As a result, the seats are left completely empty; even Fozzie's own cousin leaves; Fozzie departs the stage almost in tears.
They allowed his perpetual optimism to offset his onstage failures until he became a more rounded character. Fozzie's virtues ultimately made his ineptness acceptable—and even endearing. So successful was this metamorphosis that he became one of the most popular of all the Muppets. As Brian Henson notes in a generic Muppet Show introduction , "Fozzie is always telling terrible jokes, but he's just trying so hard you've got to love him.
Fozzie's mother, however, kept some early home videos of Fozzie and the other Muppets, as shown in A Muppet Family Christmas. As a kid , Fozzie was raised by his mom and dad , along with his baby brother Freddie. Fozzie grew up right next door to his best friend Kermit and often spent time with his grandpa. Even as a baby, Fozzie always had an interest in becoming a comedian.
Fozzie became a stand-up comic at the El Sleezo Cafe , where Kermit invited him to come to Hollywood to become famous. Fozzie took his uncle's car, which was left to him while his uncle hibernated, and the pair set out for California. However, if Fozzie had never met Kermit , he would have ended up becoming a skilled pick-pocket so good that he could pick the pocket of someone without pants. However, according to The Great Muppet Caper , Fozzie and Kermit are identical twin brothers and share the same father.
Fozzie got Kermit to reluctantly assist him for one of his best-known monologs, "Good Grief! The Comedian's a Bear! The two have since been best friends. In episode , Fozzie constantly annoyed Kermit with a running gag, delivering a number of pun items, such as a "wire" and a "letter" for Kermit the Frog which turned out to be a clothes wire and the letter R , respectively. In episode , Fozzie performed the supposedly famous "Banana Sketch. Kermit and Fozzie have also frequently been paired together in countless movies, books, and specials.
In episode , Rowlf learned that Fozzie could play the piano a talent Fozzie didn't know he had, either , and they played a duet of " English Country Garden. The young incarnations of Fozzie and Rowlf were also frequently paired together on Muppet Babies.
Fozzie's agent, introduced in episode of The Muppet Show , is Irving Bizarre , who is so short that his top hat covers most of his body.
Fozzie also has a hired writer, Gags Beasley , who was first mentioned in Episode Fozzie and Gags have a deal, whereby Fozzie pays his writer by the laugh. According to Frank Oz, "[Fozzie] can't afford good joke writers, and he can't write good jokes himself. Fozzie's wardrobe consists of a tie and a brown porkpie hat, as seen in a photo posted to his Facebook account.
While the tie is almost always white with pink polka-dots, he has changed this up on occasion: he wore black when meeting Becky 's parents in " Pig Girls Don't Cry ", and blue when attending Jay Leno 's house party in " Hostile Makeover ". Although Fozzie's main job on The Muppet Show is to be the stand-up comedian, he takes on the occasional dramatic role and often assists backstage.
He appears in sketches with guest stars Avery Schreiber and Nancy Walker , and he also appears in the recurring sketch Bear on Patrol. In episode , Kermit let Fozzie help plan the show. Sadly, his planning also later lost him that title. Then, when Kermit becomes sick in episode , Fozzie is put in charge of hosting the show, which proves quite taxing for the bear.
Fozzie had also made an attempt to write for the show in episode when he decided that the show needed a script. Unfortunately, Fozzie is either a bad speller or a bad typist or both , as Kermit found it difficult to read the introductions that Fozzie wrote for him. Fozzie later admitted that he was a bad speller when he wrote the word "Muffets" as part of the title card for The Muppets Go to the Movies.
Fozzie Bear hosted a recurring segment on Little Muppet Monsters , called "Fozzie's Comedy Corner", in which he discussed certain jokes, mainly those involving chickens. One of his most notable appearances was in the Power episode, in which Fozzie decided to give up comedy and become a weather bear. He went to the set of The Today Show to get some tips from the show's weatherman, Willard Scott , only to inadvertently lock Scott in a closet.
With Scott locked in the closet, Fozzie came on-stage to report the weather, but had trouble reporting, and went back to comedy. He also made a brief cameo at the very beginning of the "Dog City" episode. During the early s, Fozzie appeared less frequently, usually in supporting roles and often wearing a wig. Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDb page. Find out more at IMDbPro ».
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