Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A felt frog hosting a weekly variety show? A backstage held together by chaos ...

There have been few attempts at a Muppets reboot over the last 40 years, but none of the shows — like Muppets Tonight from the ’90s or The Muppets from the 2010s — really recaptured the zany, put-on-a ...

Fifty years ago—even earlier if you count its two early pilots—The Muppet Show arrived to prove that a frog could host a variety show and that human celebrities could mix it up in sketch comedy and ...