The Muppets vs Ken Nordine? This is a sketch from a pre-muppets show called Sam & Friends (1955-61), this character was called Yorick and ate everything, kind of an early Cookie Monster. They (Jim Henson & friends) decided to use a Ken Nordine Word Jazz sketch – ‘Hunger Is From’ – as the basis of the sketch.

[youtube width=”305″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2JmArTOSM&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube width=”305″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWQKwrbcvA[/youtube]

This one is even better, ‘Visual Thinking’, great stuff, so early as well.