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Brian Moffatt

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Brian Moffatt is a Canadian actor, comedian, puppeteer, and writer who served as one of the additional Muppet performers on the film Follow That Bird. That was the only Sesame Street project where he did his puppetry skills, in fact, that might have been his only known production he did puppetry on. Brian mostly did scripts and comedy, and with Peter McCowatt (who also did the film), they formed a comedy team known as The Norm. Moffatt did The Norm team before Follow That Bird, and they later starred in their own CBC Radio series from 1986-1988 before breaking up. Later in his career, he co-wrote the CBC Radio comedy series Six Days That Shook the Walt and its sequel World Wide Walt, with Muppet writer Tim Burns. It's a shame nobody knows what happened to him after the 1980s but at least there's a lot of missing information that has recently been found. Hopefully in the near future, Brian Moffatt will get interviewed for his comedic skills and fantastic writing he contributed t...

Scott Johnson

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Scott Johnson is a puppeteer and puppet builder who is best known for working with the Creature Shop and the Muppets since 1995. For the Muppets, he was a lead puppet specialist for The Muppets (2015), worked in the Muppet Workshop for Muppets Tonight and the last two films, and was floor captain on a couple movies. For the Henson Company, Scott was a fabricator for several productions like Where the Wild Things Are, Me and My Monsters, and The Happytime Murders, to name a few. Before working at the Creature Shop, Johnson worked at Disney Imagineering for many years, creating character costumes for Disney on Ice and also did Nickelodeon shows such as Cousin Skeeter, Mutt & Stuff, and Yo Gabba Gabba. As for his freelance puppetry and design credits, he worked on Greg the Bunny, Angel, That 70's Show, and more, though it was mostly puppet building he did. He should be proud to work on numerous shows over the years either with the Henson Company or away from the company. Scott Joh...