It is not clear what this is meant to mean ; perhaps that Glen should act as puppeteer, controlling his own life instead of letting others dictate it.

The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a " Professor " or " Punchman ," and assisted sometimes by a " Bottler ", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money (" the bottle ").

The Muppet Show is an American primetime television show produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets.

The term is a metaphor which compares a government to a puppet controlled by strings by an outside puppeteer.

Geppetto is extremely poor and plans to make a living as a puppeteer.

Bruno is a full-body costume which allows Oscar's puppeteer to manipulate Oscar while remaining hidden by the Bruno costume.

According to puppeteer Terry Angus, Brio is also the only female minstrel, conceived by Jocelyn Stevenson to balance the gender ratio.

* Downloadable 15-minute interview with Elmo voice and puppeteer Kevin Clash from Wisconsin Public Television-Kevin Clash talks about how he became Elmo and how the muppet is able to affect children's lives

Frank Oz ( born Frank Richard Oznowicz ; born May 25, 1944 ) is a film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street.

Oz is known for his work as a puppeteer, performing with Jim Henson's Muppets.

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life.

In some instances the persona of the puppeteer is also an important feature.

The relationship between the puppeteer and the puppet-maker is often assumed to be similar to that between an actor and a playwright.

This may be so, but one of the characteristics of puppetry is that very often the puppeteer assumes the joint roles of puppet-maker, director, designer, writer and performer.

In this case a puppeteer is a more complete theatre practitioner than is the case within other theatre forms.

Richard Bradshaw OAM is another famous Australian puppeteer.

Caroll Edwin Spinney ( born December 26, 1933 ) is an American puppeteer, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.

She is the elder sister of twins Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury, both producers, and a cousin of the late English animator and puppeteer Oliver Postgate.

Whenever a character is required to move, the camera shifts to a close-up angle to conceal the hand of a puppeteer pushing the puppet forward.

Ernie is a " Live-Hand Muppet ," meaning that while operating the head of the puppet with his right hand, the puppeteer inserts his left hand into a T-shaped sleeve, capped off with a glove that matches the fabric " skin " of the puppet, thus " becoming " the left arm of the puppet.

A second puppeteer usually provides the right arm, although sometimes the right arm is simply stuffed and pinned to the puppet's chest.

An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets.

In both book and movie, Mouche / Lili is tempted by a superficial attraction to a handsome man — an acrobat named Balotte in the book, the magician Marc in the movie — but returns to the puppeteer.

They are all operated by a single puppeteer, named Crake Villeridge.

* In the fictional world of Naruto, the first ninja puppeteer is named Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a reference to Chikamatsu's puppet plays.

Originally, the term " Bunraku " referred only to the particular theater established in 1612 in Osaka, which was named the Bunrakuza after the puppeteering ensemble of Uemura Bunrakuken ( 植村文楽軒 ), an early 19th century puppeteer on Awaji, whose efforts revived the flagging fortunes of the traditional puppet theater.

Véronique learns that the puppeteer is a children's book author named Alexandre Fabbri ( Philippe Volter ), whose marionette story was based on his book Libellule & Papillon.

In 1939 Bodega Bay, California, an old puppeteer named Andre Toulon is putting the finishing touches on a living puppet called Jester.

The programme is presented by a puppet named Pob ( played by puppeteer Robin Stevens ), who speaks a primitive version of English and who supposedly lives inside the viewer's TV ( the casing and red, green and blue electron guns visible behind him ).

As a piece of trivia: one of Touhou Project's characters is a magician / puppeteer named Alice Margatroid, and one class of her dolls is called Shanghai.

Lorre began acting on stage in Vienna at the age of 17, where he worked with the famous Viennese Art Nouveau artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner.

Tadeusz Kantor frequently substituted actors for puppets, or combined the two, and conducted each performance from the edge of the stage, in some ways similar to a puppeteer.

Although the puppeteer Paul's hands are engaged in embracing Lili, the four puppets somehow peek around the puppet stage proscenium to smile their happy approval ( and applaud ), apparently under their own power.

During the first half, known as the " show platform " ( 戲台 ), the audience is shown a demonstration by a master puppeteer on the stage.

He was the first non-Japanese to train and perform in Japan as a traditional puppeteer in the style of puppetry commonly known as Bunraku or ningyō jōruri, making his stage debut in 1994 with the 170-year-old Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe in Shiga Prefecture.

On American Bandstand ( and similar shows ), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made.

The name Waylon was first used in " I Married Marge " and comes from the puppeteer Wayland Flowers.

The name Waylon was first used in " I Married Marge " and comes from the puppeteer Wayland Flowers.

William Britton Baird ( August 15, 1904 – March 18, 1987 ), professional name Bil Baird, but often referred to as Bill Baird, was an American puppeteer of the mid-and late 20th century.

The sad-eyed creation was now given a permanent name and puppeteer.

He was said to have added an extra " d " to his name as a way of lampooning puppeteer Bil Baird when he dropped one of the Ls from his first name.

* Jim Henson ( 1936 – 1990 ), puppeteer and creator of the Muppets, as well as the organizations below that bear his name

The episode marks the first appearance of Burns's assistant Smithers's first name, Waylon, which comes from the puppeteer Wayland Flowers.