#Shari Lewis

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[oldshowbiz]

[trek-tracks]

I feel like we don't talk enough about the fact that Shari Lewis, puppeteer and creator of Lamb Chop's Play-Along (among many other things), cowrote the Star Trek episode where Scotty finally gets laid

[citizenscreen]

Remembering Shari Lewis on her birthday #botd

[glimmerkey]

1993 Shari Lewis Enterprises - Lamb Chop Backpack

[ourladyofomega]

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #678

In 1973, Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster presented the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Programming to Joseph Barbera for the ABC afterschool special Last of the Curlews, and Shari Lewis for A Picture of Us.

Source:

"The Muppets Present Award to A PICTURE OF US | Emmys Archive (1973)." Television Academy. YouTube. January 25, 2016.

[girlactionfigure]

Shari Lewis was an imaginative puppeteer who created the characters Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse.

In 1952, Lewis appeared on the television show Talent Scouts, winning first prize with her hand puppet Lamb Chop. Four years later, she appeared with the puppet on Captain Kangaroo. Her extensive work in television included her own shows, Shari-Land and The Shari Show, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, she had won four Emmy Awards—two as "most outstanding female personality" and two for "television's most outstanding children's show." She died #ThisWeekInHistory in 1998.

Jewish Women's Archive

[thejadedjewel]

Little Muppet Sesame Things #39

Here's a bit of a Jaded Jewel Fun Fact: I don't remember ever watching Lamb Chops' Play-along when it aired, but I do remember watching parts of the show when I would visit my Dad's old boss's house when his wife would look after me during summer one year. They had two little girls and they LOVED watching Barney and Friends. I watched out of amusement and liked it, but some were taped off of PBS and Lamb Chop used to air before Barney, so I was introduced to Lamb Chop through that.

Later on, I've grown to appreciate Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop, so here's Shari and Lamb Chop on Sesame meeting Big Bird and giving Lamb Chop a little lesson on meeting new people.

Things I love: Lamb Chop's reaction when she spots Big Bird (pic 2), Big's Bird's "Who me?" reaction in pic 3 as Lamb Chop goes "Oh, would you look at the size of that guy!", and everything about how gentle Big Bird is with her like petting her back and holding her little hand.

[puppet-stuff]

My Puppet List

Or more so my list of things that have puppets or a puppet in them

(I’m making a new, more organized masterlist. Hopefully it’s finished soon.)

Shows, Movies, YouTube channels, TikTok accounts, comedians, ventriloquists, etc. Let me know if you know any more!

Alf (Show)

Bear in the Big Blue House (Show)

BeeMakesCreations (YouTube)

Bird Call (YouTube, Theater show, website here)

Charlie McCarthy (Ventriloquist)

The Chica Show (Show)

Darcy Lynne (ventriloquist)

The Dark Crystal (Movie and Show)

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (YouTube, and Show)

Fraggle Rock (Shows)

Hacker T Dog (TV / CBBC, YouTube)

Howdy Doody Time (Show)

Jeff Dunham (Ventriloquist)

The Labyrinth (Movie)

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Show)

Mister Stitches (TikTok)

Niron The Neon’s Daily Blog (here on Tumblr)

The Muppets (Shows and Movies)

The NeverEnding Story (Movie)

Randy Feltface (Comedian)

Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (Special)

Sesame Street (Shows and Movies)

Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop (Show)

Welcome Home (by @ partycoffin here on tumblr)

Zoboomafoo (Show)

[oldshowbiz]

The Shari Show (1975-1976)

[bun-monchi]

Aaaah! I love her so much!☆

[glimmerkey]

1993 Shari Lewis Enterprises - Lamb Chop Bank

[princesssarisa]

Does anyone know where to watch the 1973 version of Mickey and the Beanstalk narrated by Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop?

I'd love to see it. I've seen all three other versions of the cartoon: the original from Fun and Fancy Free narrated by Edgar Bergen and his dummies, the version narrated by Ludwig von Drake, and the version narrated by Sterling Holloway. The Shari Lewis version is the only one I haven't seen.

Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop really were like later, female counterparts to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. They were their spiritual successors. (And Lewis was technically a better ventriloquist than Bergen ever was.) I'm sure they would have done just as good a job of narrating Mickey and the Beanstalk.

[tiny-toon-ventures]

This is so sweet and so soothing I love Shari Lewis