It takes a special kind of person who has a secure sense of self to get up in front of a group of people and make a puppet like Cookie Monster come to life. What a guy Frank Oz is!
Frank Oz has said "I can't stress how unimportant the voice is" because a puppeteer has to bring a character to life using their whole body to perform, but we still have people who catagorize it like a voice actor for animation.
FreakDaMIghet Frank Oz WAS AND IS COOKIE MONSTER! The other guy just doesnt cut for me! "Dennis Rudman. No disrespect to him but its definitely NOT THE SAME! MAJOR MUPPET FAN!
@@anitastodolak9882 David Rudmans cookie voice to me is quite similar to frank oz's cookie voice but that's just me and my opinion I've grown on David's cookie voice both are quite good at least to me
I do belive he also does yoda from starwars, it still cracks me up when I try to do yoda myself cuz my voice is not that gravelly sounding, this is what he looks like? he looks soo geeky and normal, I was expecting someone that was pudgier and more angry looking
I jad the great pleasire of working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz and the rest of the muppeters on the original pilot. I was the recording engineer (2" quad tape) I used to go up to the studio during breaks to meet the cast and discuss the next sxenes they were about to do. I was amazed at how real the sets looked in person. The scene with Mt. Rushmore was amazing. Even at 2 feet away it looked so real, eben though it was foam rubber. I thought the name of the show was very odd for puppets. I used to have many of the out takes, but the tape was stolen from me. Jim and Frank were wonderful people and it was awesome to hear Jims ideas. He was a very decent person and like everyone elese says: he is sorely missed. Im case anyone knows, it was recorded in NYC in Studio-5 on the 5th floor.....tape room was on the 2nd floor
I'm in a puppeteer wormhole on UA-cam now, but I clicked a vid that only showed " How Cookie Monster controls his" I wanted it to be his puppeteer, but of course disappointment.
Frank Oz is the master!!! Stuart Freeborn created the iconic yoda puppet based on a single concept photo by I believe Mcquarrie and used his own face in mirror as anatomical reference while sculpting. I'm a professional special make-up effects sculptor and technician and used to work in film and tv but now have a wife and 3 kids in my hometown near Boston so I started my own movie prop restoration studio and macguiver-like fx services of all kinds. Mostly work for collectors, haunted house attractions, museums, galleries, etc. living my dream and guys like this were my idols growing up. I'm 34 and have a lot of fun. Anyway, my wife's uncle is Martin Robinson who is also a master puppeteer from Jim Henson who still works on Sesame Street and voices Tele-monster and snufalufagus I believe plus tons of other random characters needed. We live in Mass and he lives in Connecticut and I have only met him a couple times. My wife could tell what a fanboy I am over meeting him and made me promise I wouldn't assault him with questions or ask if he had any old muppets in storage I could have for my sci-fi /horror film prop collection lol.
*hes not a ventriloquist so he’s not really trying to talk about it and be a comedian. But I guess whoever took over if someone did, they definitely have been popping up and changing the whole Cookie Monster appearance to be funny. Which he is.
"As a matter of fact yes, i blue the cookie monster. And instead of dangling him on a string, I'd heard the best way to perk up a puppet is with a hand up its orifice. " Tobias Funke
It's true. You see Cookie Monster talking and even though the voice is coming out of Frank Oz, you're looking at the puppet. I'm glad he carried on after Jim died. It gave the shows a little more grounding. But I can't get used to the new people they have voicing them. It's no longer "my" Muppets.
Cookie Monster is the character that remember us the innocence of being a little bit easy and still being that child that we were in the past... That means, not to be immature that is a harsh and horrible characteristic even in teens. Cookie monster always give us e moment of peace and smiles. Thanks Blue Friend!
As Paul Williams once observed "If you're talking to Jim Henson and Frank Oz, you have a conversation with three people; but if Frank Oz is holding Miss Piggy and Jim Henson has Kermit, it is now a conversation of five."
I find it interesting that Frank is often described as one of the more serious members of Muppets Inc., yet he performed some of the silliest, most uninhibited characters: Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, Animal etc.... what a performer!
Frank Oz is great puppeteer for a bunch of characters, Yoda, Miss Piggy, cookie monster who I had a found thing as a kid in a mall I got to sit on his lap and took a picture
I always found Cookie Monster a bit unnerving as a kid! Fozzie will always be my favourite. He only has to look at the camera with his mouth wide open and I laugh!
destiny035 Mistake there, Uni was voiced by Frank Welker, not Frank Oz. Welker is also known for voicing Megatron in the G1 Transformers cartoon. Back to Frank Oz, he also appeared in An American Werewolf in London as Mr Collins.
I KNEW IT!! when I first heard Yoda when Luke lands on Dagabah System, I said to myself: "why is this puppet sound like one of Sesame Street characters?"
The whole time... when Cookie is talking, I can't help but look at him, and think he's real. Even with Frank right there.
Cms pupils was so big
That's how good he is😎
Same here!
It's a puppet.....
Big talent
I was glad Frank Oz was able to bring Cookie Monster into the show.
Veston Bruno Frank oz also did trading places
Veston Bruno, I agree with ye.
Also, I recognize that Nick Jr's one of a kind Face anywhere! Of all these years I still remember Face. You got good taste in classics
Cookie Monster’s pupils were big back then
It takes a special kind of person who has a secure sense of self to get up in front of a group of people and make a puppet like Cookie Monster come to life. What a guy Frank Oz is!
Love a good shellacking bubs. Prayers🙏🏻✌🏻
Watch Muppet Guys Talking
You think that's brilliant puppetry, you should watch old videos of Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog.
@@mesquitegirl2013 He Also Voices Fungus In Disney/Pixar Monsters Inc
Frank Oz is the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy too.
And his sarcastic cameos in The Blues Brothers, and Spies Like Us, were funny as hell.
#Legend. 💯
Aaron Verico1, I’m aware, but I still just can’t picture this man being miss piggy!! But I know he was.
And Bert!
and An American Werewolf in London
@@gringotts98 and Fozzie Bear
And the Chamberlain and Aughra from the Dark Crystal
Another part of my childhood, Frank Oz, performer of so many Muppets. Not to mention Yoda.
Frank Oz has said "I can't stress how unimportant the voice is" because a puppeteer has to bring a character to life using their whole body to perform, but we still have people who catagorize it like a voice actor for animation.
I hear a bit of bert in him, but never thought he was bert and Cookie Monster .. such true talent back in the day
@@sethcaine3659 Bert, Cookie Monster, Grover and Miss Piggy to name some.
A great inspiration for children. Him and the late Jim Henson were great together.
HE and Jim Henson. "Him was great" is nonsensical.
@@SalvableRuin Wow! bet you have a full time job as the grammar police on social media
Oz, the Great and Powerful.
FreakDaMIghet Frank Oz WAS AND IS COOKIE MONSTER! The other guy just doesnt cut for me! "Dennis Rudman. No disrespect to him but its definitely NOT THE SAME! MAJOR MUPPET FAN!
+Anita Stodolak Jim,Frank,& Jerry did a majority of the voices
And Yoda lol
@@anitastodolak9882 David Rudmans cookie voice to me is quite similar to frank oz's cookie voice but that's just me and my opinion I've grown on David's cookie voice both are quite good at least to me
@@anitastodolak9882 That’s DAVID Rudman!
Cookie cover eyes for naptime. Me understand, Cookie. Me understand.
0:09 is the calmest I've ever seen him take a cookie.
I love this man!! He is truly a living legend, as Jim Henson was!!
His natural speaking voice is Bert and Fozzie Bear! lol haha
Steve Timm happy birthday to you frank oz cool and lol 100%
Steve Timm yup. He’s officially retired from muppetering. He’s still devastated over Jim’s passing.
I do belive he also does yoda from starwars, it still cracks me up when I try to do yoda myself cuz my voice is not that gravelly sounding, this is what he looks like? he looks soo geeky and normal, I was expecting someone that was pudgier and more angry looking
manga12 show this man a little more respect. He’s done a lot for children. Especially me when I was growing up.
Frank is pure genius, and remarkably funny. I love him! He's one of my idols...
I jad the great pleasire of working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz and the rest of the muppeters on the original pilot. I was the recording engineer (2" quad tape) I used to go up to the studio during breaks to meet the cast and discuss the next sxenes they were about to do. I was amazed at how real the sets looked in person. The scene with Mt. Rushmore was amazing. Even at 2 feet away it looked so real, eben though it was foam rubber.
I thought the name of the show was very odd for puppets. I used to have many of the out takes, but the tape was stolen from me.
Jim and Frank were wonderful people and it was awesome to hear Jims ideas. He was a very decent person and like everyone elese says: he is sorely missed.
Im case anyone knows, it was recorded in NYC in Studio-5 on the 5th floor.....tape room was on the 2nd floor
You copy and paste the same message in every sesame Street comment section.
@@Dynamatrix2000 not at all..... What a troll
Wow, that's awesome! Did you do any other work on the show or just the pilot?
Was it the sex and violence or the valentines show?
When Cookie Monster was talking, it looked like he was doing the voice acting for Frank Oz!
bassistguy that is a mark of true talent lolol
I'm in a puppeteer wormhole on UA-cam now, but I clicked a vid that only showed " How Cookie Monster controls his" I wanted it to be his puppeteer, but of course disappointment.
Just thinking about how this guy doesn't actually know how iconic he is.. legend, thank you
Love it! Who would we be today without Cookie Monster!
Robots from Disney.
Cookie Monster is now David Rudman, I believe.
I believe you're right.
We'd be in denial of child-like fun & inventing things like the Veggie Monster ? Wait, conundrum.....
+Josh Berman Disney didn't make us
Frank really is a master of his work. This is the Cookie Monster I grew up with.
It really makes you wonder how on Earth he managed to land that job. He must have pulled a few strings.
Ummm how?..
Wow so funny. Not
Muppets don’t have strings
@@AnotherMovieStudio Maybe he shoved his fist inside some important people until he got the job
People need to lighten up. That was funny haha.
Frank Oz is the master!!! Stuart Freeborn created the iconic yoda puppet based on a single concept photo by I believe Mcquarrie and used his own face in mirror as anatomical reference while sculpting. I'm a professional special make-up effects sculptor and technician and used to work in film and tv but now have a wife and 3 kids in my hometown near Boston so I started my own movie prop restoration studio and macguiver-like fx services of all kinds. Mostly work for collectors, haunted house attractions, museums, galleries, etc. living my dream and guys like this were my idols growing up. I'm 34 and have a lot of fun. Anyway, my wife's uncle is Martin Robinson who is also a master puppeteer from Jim Henson who still works on Sesame Street and voices Tele-monster and snufalufagus I believe plus tons of other random characters needed. We live in Mass and he lives in Connecticut and I have only met him a couple times. My wife could tell what a fanboy I am over meeting him and made me promise I wouldn't assault him with questions or ask if he had any old muppets in storage I could have for my sci-fi /horror film prop collection lol.
I'll never forget Frank Oz playing a corrections officer in The Blues Brothers and a surgeon in Innocent Blood.
An ambassador in an American Werewolf in London
He's been in about every movie directed by John Landis.
"I'm not that schizophrenic that I can do both always."
*hes not a ventriloquist so he’s not really trying to talk about it and be a comedian. But I guess whoever took over if someone did, they definitely have been popping up and changing the whole Cookie Monster appearance to be funny. Which he is.
Frank Oz and Mel Blanc and Jim Henson....the best there ever was!!!!!!!!
and Jim Cummings
@@NapakettuVT Jim Cummings is more for this generation but for Frank Oz Mel Blanc and Jim Henson are in a different league they're legends.
And caroll Spinney as well!!!!
@aymimi Jerry Nelson as well
@aymimi And Steve Whitmire.
I think I wanted the whole interview to be with Cookie Monster. I love him, like a crush.
I miss those days. Everything was so sweet.
Is this Frank Oz, or Dr. Tobias Funke?
svaughan41 The worlds first analrapist.
"As a matter of fact yes, i blue the cookie monster. And instead of dangling him on a string, I'd heard the best way to perk up a puppet is with a hand up its orifice. " Tobias Funke
Where does the anal rapist thing come from?
@@beegee5337 An analyst who is also a therapist. An analrapist.
Bee Gee arrested development
Fozzy bear, Grover, Cookie monster, Yoda....it's amazing the characters he's brought to life.
You forgot her high Diva self, Miss Piggy!! He was also Moi Herself!
Bert too.
His actual natural voice is Bert... LOVE
Cookie Monster is my all time favorite Sesame Street Muppet! 🍪💙
The best Cookie Monster voice ever
i love how cookie monster is just like a blanket with eyes. when it comes to muppet designs less really is more
That's an amazing talent of the Cookie Monster.
He isn't the "voice" of anyone. He's the puppeteer of all those characters. The voice is secondary.
Exactly. Calling a Muppet animator a "voice actor" is really underselling the work that these people do.
I like Sesame Street, but Cookie Monster is my favorite thing in the entire Sesame Street show! I'm craving oreos right now, does anyone have any?
I love Cookie Monster. He was one of my favorites besides Big Bird bird was my friend when I was 8 years old...😊❤
Now that I know that Cookie Monster is controlled by a person, I don't know in what to believe.
TheBookieMonster Agreed
There’s still cookies
I have my doubts. Maybe it's Cookie monster controlling the great and powerful Oz? I mean the curtain has been drawn...
Grover is my favorite! ♥ Frank Oz rules.
I have so much affection for this artist! When I watched Sesame Street, I used to relate to Bert!
Frank is so young here! Thank you for posting this!
I don't know old Frank is now, but Thank God that at least he's still alive and doing well as well.
Josh Berman He's 73 years old.
Poo-poo-poo! And let him be around for another 27 more years.
He was only 19 when he started working for Henson.
Josh Berman he’s now officially 75yrs old.
It's true. You see Cookie Monster talking and even though the voice is coming out of Frank Oz, you're looking at the puppet.
I'm glad he carried on after Jim died. It gave the shows a little more grounding. But I can't get used to the new people they have voicing them. It's no longer "my" Muppets.
His natural voice sounds like Fozzy bear.
his normal voice is like kermit.
+putatapan hipopotam I thought it sounded more like Bert
+putatapan hipopotam I think he sounds like FOZZY Bear!
Sounds like Bert to me!
Fozzy and bert
+jeff wetmore more like Kermit he sounds like
i love frank oz because he directs my favorite movie LITTLE shop of horrors now i know i now he speaks for cookie monster thats cool
ttarkA113 relly thats cool
My absolute favorite movie as well.
Cookie Monster is the character that remember us the innocence of being a little bit easy and still being that child that we were in the past... That means, not to be immature that is a harsh and horrible characteristic even in teens.
Cookie monster always give us e moment of peace and smiles. Thanks Blue Friend!
Sesame Street has taught so many kids and adults alike around the world some many wonderful things about life.
o g frank oz is the best cookie monster and grover
Cookie monster one my favorite Frank oz characters
When I look at old clips of Cookie Monster, it's amazing to me how fluidly he moved, like he was a furry liquid with googly eyes.
Grover = Yoda
I mean, common knowledge for quite some time but yeah.
I actually hear Yoda as Fozzie instead, but they're pretty similar voices.
I was about 11 when The Empire Strikes Back came out and remember whispering loudly to my mother, “That’s Grover!!!” when Yoda first spoke.
@@johnkaiser4708 That's funny.
The voice of
Animal
Miss Piggy
Fozzie Bear
Bert
Grover
Cookie Monster
A master in the field he is.
Know that reference, I do.
@@MariOmor1 Yep! Certainly well known it is.
im glad frank oz made us laugh when we were kids.
Can we just notice how he tries to brush cookie crumbs off his head, even though Cookie is sitting in his lap?
It’s because it reminded him of when cookie dough was poured on his head.
0:07 Cheeky Cookie Monster From Jim Henson's Sesame Street The Original Series. Thanks Mate. X
Pretty cool to be the vocalist for multiple bands
Wow just so incredible. They just come alive!! So alive. Amazing characters and puppets.
This is delightful to hear! 😂
The interview died when he put Cookie Monster down
3:47 I love how giddy the host sounds when he make his joke. It's so wholesome.
I saw the Blues Brothers and I heard Bert giving back Jake's things
"One ... soiled."
Holy crap! Love the blues brothers, must have watched 40+ times since I was a kid but never made that connection, thanks for that.
"It's an OP-ER-A...this is PCP...Do you know what this stuff does to kids?!"
This is great - so simple and lovely.
When I see cookies my inner Cookie Monster comes out.
As Paul Williams once observed "If you're talking to Jim Henson and Frank Oz, you have a conversation with three people; but if Frank Oz is holding Miss Piggy and Jim Henson has Kermit, it is now a conversation of five."
Ahhhh ..... is that Peter Gzowski interviewing Frank???? This is delightful!!!! Thanks for posting this.
Yes it's Peter
I find it interesting that Frank is often described as one of the more serious members of Muppets Inc., yet he performed some of the silliest, most uninhibited characters: Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, Animal etc.... what a performer!
Yoda was just four years away.
Liked him in Trading Places as the cop
Good eye!!
And he's in Spies Like Us, with Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd
And Blues Brothers!!
We need a movie about Frank Oz while David Cross is alive.
Since I first saw this I wanted to see who plays Cookie Monster. My life is now complete
I never knew this was Frank Oz! I always thought of him as the test proctor from Spies Like Us
Frank Oz is great puppeteer for a bunch of characters, Yoda, Miss Piggy, cookie monster who I had a found thing as a kid in a mall I got to sit on his lap and took a picture
First interviewer I’ve seen on YT who actually wanted to talk to the person and not the puppet.
Loved his direction in Bowfinger !
OMG it took me a few seconds to realise what cookies tartare must be but once I did that was amazing.
OMG I literally missed that joke until I read your comment! How?!
YODA
"For my ally are cookies, and a yummy ally it is." :)
Ha, ha!
not until 4 years later
I always found Cookie Monster a bit unnerving as a kid! Fozzie will always be my favourite. He only has to look at the camera with his mouth wide open and I laugh!
He probably doesn't enjoy the anonymity anymore since he is so well known now.
Cookie Monster always was my favorite.
Pretty insane how much character he’s able to give to a puppet like that
I listened to this on CBFQ in London (Channel 6) during severe E-skip after the DTV Switches.
working for/with Jim must've been easily one of the Best jobs in the entire world
Man! What a brilliant artist!
A true legend he is…
Crazy how Oz now talks more normal without the Bert in his voice. I guess the voice sure changes over the years.
He was Uni in Dungeons&Dragons the Cartoon and the prison warden in The Blues Brothers :)
destiny035
Mistake there, Uni was voiced by Frank Welker, not Frank Oz.
Welker is also known for voicing Megatron in the G1 Transformers cartoon.
Back to Frank Oz, he also appeared in An American Werewolf in London as Mr Collins.
Frank Oz also did Bert on Sesame Street and Miss Piggy and Sam the Eagle on the Muppet Show.
Can't help thinking of his police officer role in trading places when I see him. & Blues brothers.
I can't believe Yoda sounds just like Grover, I know it's the same guy
It’s crazy to think that Cookie Monster and Yoda are both voiced by him
Love him for Yoda too! Happy 40 anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. 5/21/2020
I KNEW IT!! when I first heard Yoda when Luke lands on Dagabah System, I said to myself: "why is this puppet sound like one of Sesame Street characters?"
May the force be with him!
He's also the voice for Yoda, Bert, and Miss Piggy!
Frank sounds like kermit
Cookie’s definitely real. I like seeing Frank Oz in person. Have always seen his name and known who he voices. But don’t see him much
My Fav Cookie Monster🤩
His most important role was as the guard giving back Jake hid items as Jake was being released from prison in the beginning of the Blues Brothers.
They forgot to mention that he’s Bert too!!
No, He mentioned it.
I alway wanted to be a puppeteer
Dominique Pilon Do it!
I'm a Puppeteer and you can be one too, cause saving the planet is the thing to do.... No, wait. That was Planeteer.
You can do it
Do it
All you need is a sock and a dream!
We need People like Oz and Henson now more than ever.