I have two favorite parts of this story. The first is the phone call between Ted Koppel and Jim Henson. If you weren’t there, I should let you know that 1987 was a fairly primitive time.

On May, 22, 2025, at Jim Henson's alma mater, the University of Maryland, a familiar green frog urged the 2025 graduates to embrace kindness, curiosity, and community. He closed his speech by ...

Miss Piggy would surely agree that Kermit the Frog looked dapper in his red robe and graduation cap as he delivered his cheery commencement speech to the University of Maryland’s graduating ...

As noted in Kermit’s speech, Jim Henson (who “had a hand in literally everything I did,” the Muppet quipped) was a graduate of the University of Maryland in 1960, majoring in home economics ...

Disney’s Muppets Studio has denied that a revival of Jim Henson’s classic variety series The Muppet Show is in the works. “The Muppets Studio is not in production at this time on any new ...

Some University of Maryland (UMD) students are expressing outrage that commencement speaker Kermit the Frog will not give a politically charged speech at graduation on Thursday. Kermit was ...

Henson produced two Muppet Show pilot episodes for ABC in the mid-1970s but both were rejected, so he partnered with British producer Lew Grade to bring the project to ITV in the U.K., instead.

For Kermit, the school probably feels just as homey as a swamp since Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. When graduates imagine the list of possible speakers for their ...

Kermit the Frog was the commencement speaker Thursday for the Class of 2025 at the University of Maryland, where his creator, Jim Henson, was a student decades ago. Henson, who was the creator of ...