The Muppet Show - Paul Simon and Gonzo

[Muppetmaster007]

gonzo's song is legend "for u id wash my hair with stinky glue id fry my legs and eat them too id put a spider in my shoe for u XD

[WorldSpinningBlueJay]

Paul is Simon the Great

[nellie2581]

Paul Simon was on the Muppet Show, that's great. And he was also on Sesame Street.

[DawnRainWasHere]

He can call him Al-oh the pun.

[Ateamgrl]

Took me forever to figure out that a clarinet meant a guitar.

[bfandreasyt]

Jim Henson had a knack how to get great people into his show.

My first childhood memory is Harry Belafonte performing in the Muppet Show. I kid you not. Hazy shades of mum and dad and hot chocolate after building a snowman when the rest of Miami River(that's Dayton, Ohio) was in the grip of a blizzard.

My first ever moment of clarity and self-conciousness was the Muppet Show.

And I'm not even a US citizen.

[nellie2581]

@bfandreasyt I am a US Citizen since the beginning of this month.

[yrkanak]

how old is paul in this video?

[12ruedespompiers]

he's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot paul

[luvintheoldies]

Paul's pained expression @ 1:06....tries to smile 1:13.

[luvintheoldies]

Gonzo: Well, that's enough about me. Which one of my songs do you wanna hear?

Paul: one of your songs?

Gonzo: You don't think I'm musically educated?

Paul: No, I think you're musically educated, it's just that-

Gonzo: Good. Hand me that clarinet *points*.

[Klskcs1]

I can't get enough of this. One of the greatest singers of all time and humor that exists on so many levels.

[TaylorZhai]

Did I hear the opening to Rainy Day Woman 12 and 35?

[JustBriful]

thats just the first verse wanna hear the other 28? XDD I LOVE YOU GONZO LOL

[friendlymonk]

"I'd wash my hair with stinky glue, I'd fry my legs and eat them too, I'd put a spider in my SHOE!! ...For YOU!!"....... I am with Mr Simon on this one, Gonzo is and has ALWAYS been my favourite muppet !!

[jimiele]

when is this from?

[timmaerasch]

call me "Gonzo the great"!!!!

[crawleypa]

investigate the 3 f*ckers who dislike this....

[TinyDancer3344]

Gonazo is better than Garfunkel (;

[MsMemphisFlyer]

I lobe gonzo he's weird but so sweet and endearing

[stg2724]

Ahh the memories

[GONEmypurpleflapjack]

CLARINETISTS FTW!

[manomano30]

@Ukuleleboy100 I wish that was my guitar!!

[Ukuleleboy100]

i'm glad that wasn't my guitar :)

[cherrycoke631024]

oh gonzo...<3

[NaiTaiDai]

Don't you LOVE breakaway props?

[bouplegarza]

jajajajajaj gonzo habla ckomo una amigaaaa :)

[phendformyself]

Great bit right there. Gonzo is my fav, too! Paul Simon is great too.

The Muppet Show was a little before my time, but great for any generation.

[MrCaptainA]

Paul is so brutal here...

Frankly, it would have been kinder to have just told Gonzo "Your song is terrible".

[1tomh1]

What's the song Simon starts playing at the start?

[eisemanrenyardjake]

@1tomh1 It sounds like "Loves Me Like A Rock"

[owlet1963]

The end gave THE biggest laugh! Shame for the guitar though,,, But.. a promise is a promise and .. desperate times call for desperate measures!!

[alexkarin84]

Can I call you Paul? .. And you can call me Gonzo the Great.

[love2hate0hate2love]

i was soooo young........

[12bulkhead]

Very, very young, he was there.

[IlovePOTO3]

I would.

[missi44]

Paul Simon is sexy

[ragingbull888]

Paul Simon is kinda buff

[schizoidboy]

Of course what is the point of putting a spider in your shoe if your are going to fry and eat your legs? A bit confusing isn't it? Then again we're talking about Gonzo;)

[lapislazuli7]

the leg-frying motif...

[PaulSimonIsCUTE]

Jokes

[MrPelicanPants]

"I'd fry my legs and eat them too" is fucking brilliant! Come on!

[fumpingo]

haha that's great, I always imagined Paul Simon to be this shy, emotional kind of guy, who is always busy writing poetry (because that's what it is, only reading his lyrics is great), but this is soooooo funny, man, I love simon.

[CaitlinBrooksMusic]

That's not a clarinet; that's a nylon-string guitar!

[NaiTaiDai]

That's sort of the joke when Gonzo claims to be "musically educated".

[Abunchanada]

Ahhhh

The humour in this situation is that Caitlin is not aware that the point of Paul going along with Gonzo's most obvious lack of musical knowledge was for the purpose of a joke!

Much laughter has ensured because of it, but silly Caitlin, you were not amongst the laughing!

[MissingTime1]

@CaitlinBrooksMusic Not Simons body language at that point, and how he says "clarinet"...

[MiyazakiA2]

*can't stop laughing*

Oh my god...the ending! It's perfect! Paul's so laid back. XD <3

*SMASHES CLARENET*

[NaiTaiDai]

Dave once said he had the worst singing voice of the cast. Anyone else think Gonzo is the best example of that claim?

[TFOR4]

cbsteffen u are more stupid than Gonzo

[meedermaid]

That's the weirdest clarenet I've EVER seen

[Lowenti]

Paul Simon should have been an actor too..

He is so relaxed..

[marlonrn]

He is. He acted in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" and in "One Trick Pony", written by him and directed by Robert M. Young, among many other works.

[ToasterPig]

He was in Annie Hall?

Well I will have to rewatch that movie just to find his part XD

[SPINOSAURUSKING]

The funny part is that's not even a clarenet!

[cbsteffen]

I wouldn't admit that Gonzo sings well. He hardly has a singing voice in my opinion.