Sam & Friends - Where Hunger Is From (color)

[FoolsWithAWebCam]

Is does this video make anyone else feel uncomfortable? D: WTF is this?

[cpalestrant]

The voice is an old "Word Jazz" recording by Ken Nordine. Predates the sketch.

[HACHETOOTH]

Proto-Cookie Monster

[TenDropChris]

I've seen the other sketches where he is more of a mindless eating machine, but if you ask me giving him that voice made him a hundred times more unsettling.

I can explaing best by paraphasing this part of a short horror story where a young man just saw his friend eaten by a swamp monster-"I saw craftiness, something sly that said I know exactly what I'm doing. Intelliegence, that's what it comes down too, and intelligence in a creature like that is a horrible thing indeed."

[ZAG10224]

@TenDropChris What horror story did you get that from?

[TenDropChris]

@ZAG10224 It was called "Keeping Watch" by Nate Kenyon. It was collected in a book of short stories called Monstrous

[ZAG10224]

@TenDropChris thank you. it sounds intresting.

[sirMAXX77]

making me hungry

[whinnysnwhiskers]

OK, I'm 25 and this scares the bejesus out of me!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!! *runs and hides in corner*

[karmacop911]

this is the worst puppet i've ever seen. do not like

[JadeGryphon]

@karmacop911 Yeah well...Yorick doesn't like you, either. (and really, considering this piece was done YEARS AGO...)

[Pikachu4352]

Does anyone have Poison to Poison?

[CanadianSushi828]

What the hell was that?

[Dekobee]

@CanadianSushi828 You see, Sam and Friends, the TV show this aired on, was abstract and different.

[Tareltonlives]

Imagine if Yorik was voiced by James Earl Jones or Jack Nicholson....

[MsPandaRosa]

@Tareltonlives

Only other voices worthy to compete, but the original Word Jazzman is still without parallel...

[snoutthetinker2]

this was actually said to be the precursor to the cookie monster

[neoprankster]

Is this colorized, or was this filmed in color?

[b4ifly2paradise]

@neoprankster it was filmed in color

[neoprankster]

@b4ifly2paradise Thanks.

[PandaMishima]

My father and I think it should have ended with a big fine BELCCHH!!!

[Madhatter1903]

Whenever I watch this skit I get hungry! :D

[polarity345]

@Madhatter1903 me too!!!

[Dekobee]

Watch Sam and Friends, or Yorick, here will eat you.

[TheNinjaMouse]

That was strangely fascinating, but...why? What the heck?

[brightbite]

@TheNinjaMouse It ma be that he is an unusual looking character describing something quite common.

[XANA8446]

its got that late nite 50's feeling to it

[fry21100]

i find yorick creepy. those little beady eyes just stare at you. Ugh.

[attentiongrab]

For some reason I get hypnotized by this video and just can't stop watching it.

[Evaseven]

been reading a book on jim henson's works, never knew about these muppets, they all came first!

[Speedracer78]

This character, Yorick, when voiced by Jim Henson, usually sounded very gruff. Imagine Rowlf the Dog but deeper and even more gravelly. I have two Sam and Friends episodes with Yorick speaking as voiced by Jim as well as "Where Hunger Is From". Sam speaks in one episode as well. Only three sentences and he sounds like Guy Smiley from Sesame Street but I'm not sure if that was ever his permanent voice.

[Johnny2071]

So Yorick does talk..............

[Hendo56]

This muppet character was named either Yorik or York. I was TERRIFIED of him as a kid. See, he ate EVERYTHING, including other muppets. Jim Henson started out in the Washington area, and we watched his show regularly. And whenever he came on, I'd run and hide.

[WackdProductions]

@Hendo56 Twas Yorick. Seems you knew him, HENDratiO.

[dadogster]

Thanks for posting this one I had always wanted to see it.

[jeffkahl]

this is one of my favorite Ken Nordine pieces! cool to see a Muppet skit done to it!

[MarshalGrover]

I Was expecting this to be a song, but oh well, still nice to see some rare Henson footage.

[wileyk209zback]

Man, Jim Henson's Muppets sure loved to lip-synch back in the '50s and early '60s didn't they? Even Sam, the star of "Sam and Friends," just lip-synched; he never had his own voice!

[antsamthompson9]

I like the voice in this. It's very funny!