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Its hard not to think about the ridiculousness that our lives have gone back to.

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Diana Ross joins the Muppets in one 1980 episode Credit: Shutterstock The arrival today on Disney+ of all five seasons of The Muppet Show would always have been a source of good cheer, but in early 2021 it looks something like divine providence. Over the five years it ran, from 1976 to 1981, this showcase for Jim Henson’s most famous creations tickled us pink with its daft sketches, exuberant songs and exhausting list of definitively A-list stars (see below). From Julie Andrews to Sylvester S...

1. Giant penguins once roamed the planet The first bird actually called a penguin was the now-extinct Great Auk found in the North Atlantic. Tragically, early explorers and their contemporaries found Great Auks a little too tasty, and the birds were all killed off. Fossil evidence shows that penguins evolved before the dinosaurs died out, and there are remains of giant, people-sized, prehistoric penguins. 2. The world’s smallest penguin stands just over 30cm high In comparison, the worlds sm...

Even if the first episodes she was kind of passed back and forth between performers, frank oz was supposed to be fozzie and miss piggy using her in the early muppet shows and she was passed between frank oz and richard hunt. so if you watch, even her voice was off. but there was a stage direction when frank oz had her where it called for piggy to give kermit into a slap and he turned that into a karate chop and said the whole place went crazy, you knew you had to see it again. and that became fr...

less racist since the inauguration of the first black president? >> i think what barack obama is going through is more about race than anything else. >> michael jackson. >> i watched him transform himself from the child he was to the figure he became. all those facelifts and distortions. i found it to be a very sad, sad journey. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening, we start with breaking news tonight. a live shot from downtown new york. the clock is ticking on a potential...