Films, standup, theatre, radio comedy, puppetry, humanity.
The Dresden Dolls, Big Mama Thornton, Frank Sinatra, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Blondie, Louis Prima, George Clinton, Björk, Talking Heads, Stevie Wonder, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, No Doubt, The Beatles, Muddy Waters, Run-D.M.C., Ray Charles, Fats Waller, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Billie Holiday, The Flaming Lips, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Metallica, DMX, Sarah Vaughan, Iggy Pop, James Brown, David Bowie, R.E.M., Led Zeppelin, Tito Puente, Bix Beiderbecke, Alice Cooper, The White Stripes, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, Polyphonic Spree, Dead Or Alive, Fiona Apple, Duke Ellington, Black Sabbath, Count Basie, Marilyn Manson, N.E.R.D., Ella Fitzgerald, Ladytron, Spike Jones, Queen, Cake, Roy Orbison, Cab Calloway, The Cure, B52's, Snoop Dogg, Janet Klein, They Might Be Giants, Marvin Gaye, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Aaron Lebedeff, Harry Belafonte, Franz Ferdinand, Lena Horne, Cyndi Lauper, Sophie Tucker, Yma Sumac, Beck, Artie Shaw, OutKast, Scissor Sisters, Flogging Molly, Radiohead, Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, Patsy Cline, The Starlight Mints, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Muse, The Real Tuesday Weld, Preservation Hall, The Postal Service, The Decemberists, Rosemary Clooney, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor, Jackie Wilson, The Clash, The Faint, Green Day, Depeche Mode, Amy Winehouse, Gnarls Barkley, Al Jolson, Gipsy Kings, The Ditty Bops, Feist, Jimmy Durante, Chuck Berry, and so on and so on...
Duck Soup, The Muppet Movie, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Usual Suspects, City Lights, Annie Hall, Jurassic Park, Knocked Up, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Sherlock Junior, Young Frankenstein, Schindler's List, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Kid, Modern Times, Mr. Saturday Night, Batman Begins, Being There, The Birdcage, The Thin Man, Horsefeathers, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Why Worry, A Shot in the Dark, Take The Money and Run, Sullivan's Travels, The Sunshine Boys, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Ref, Steamboat Bill Jr, A Night at the Opera, Stir Crazy, Million Dollar Baby, Animal Crackers, Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, Nightmare Before Christmas, Airplane, The Fountain, and so on and so on...
The Daily Show, The Muppet Show, Your Show of Shows, Fraggle Rock, South Park, The Simpsons, The Jim Henson Hour, All in the Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Fawlty Towers, The Storyteller, Dead Like Me, Freakazoid, You Bet Your Life, Dinosaurs, and Family Guy.
Bukowski, Groucho and Me, Jim Henson: The Works, Harpo Speaks, Of Muppets and Men: Making of the Muppet Show, Many Happy Returns, The Wisdom of Big Bird, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Gray's Anatomy, Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gracie: A Love Story, Of Mice and Men, 100 Years 100 Stories, The Groucho Letters, Napalm and Silly Putty, Why a Duck?, Beds, Siddartha, Jim Henson's Design's and Doodles, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, Sesame Street Unpaved, The Stranger, The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx, At This Theatre, No Strings Attached, Swimming to Cambodia, Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide for Democracy Inaction, Brain Droppings, The Green Mile, Monkey Business, Funny You Should Say That, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sex and Death to the Age 14, Without Feathers, Dry, Getting Even, Impossible Vacation, e.e. cummings, The Prophet, Adam Resurrected, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider, Ishmael, A Confederacy of Dunces, Running with Scissors, and so on and so on...
The Muppet Performers
Especially
Jim Henson