Gonzo, Gonzo the Great, or The Great Gonzo (said to be short for Gonzales in The Muppet Show) is a puppet character, one of Jim Henson's Muppets. He is performed by Dave Goelz. Jump to: navigation, search The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of Muppets (diverse hand operated puppets, typically with huge eyes and large moving mouths) produced by Jim Henson and his team from 1976 to 1981. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jim Henson James Maury Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was one of the most important puppeteers in modern American television history. ... John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... Dave Goelz is a puppeteer best known for his association with The Muppets, and in particular with the Muppet character Gonzo. ...

Gonzo, to say the least, is weird. He is blue, bug-eyed, and has a long hooked nose. On The Muppet Show he performed as a performance artist, stuntman and daredevil under the name "The Great Gonzo" (or "Gonzo the Great"). He takes pride in his iconoclasm, all the while romantically pursuing Camilla the chicken. Jump to: navigation, search The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of Muppets (diverse hand operated puppets, typically with huge eyes and large moving mouths) produced by Jim Henson and his team from 1976 to 1981. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... Jump to: navigation, search For people who perform risky stunts as a profession, see stunt performer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pride logo PRIDE or PRIDE Fighting Championships is a mixed martial arts organization based in Japan. ... Illustration of the Beeldenstorm during the Dutch reformation Literally, iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other sacred images or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. ... Camilla is the female chicken that is Gonzos love interest on The Muppet Show. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ...

A running gag related to Gonzo is that it's not clear what species he is supposed to be, though some say he resembles a buzzard. John Cleese, in his appearance on the show, referred to him as "the ugly, disgusting little blue creature who catches cannonballs." In the film The Great Muppet Caper, he is shipped to England in a crate labeled "Whatever" (while Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are respectively labeled "Frog" and "Bear"). In Muppet Babies Gonzo (voice of Russi Taylor) was simply referred to as a "weirdo" or "blue weirdo." He has referred to himself as a "whatever," resigned to ignorance of his actual species. In Muppets From Space it is revealed that Gonzo is an alien. It is not clear whether this is to be considered a canonical statement of Gonzo's origins. A buzzard is a type of large bird, in any of several different but related senses: In the Old World: A medium-sized wide-ranging raptor with a robust body and broad wings. ... Jump to: navigation, search John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ... The Great Muppet Caper DVD cover The Great Muppet Caper is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Hensons Muppets. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Kermit has a TV star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. ... Fozzie Bear Fozzie Bear was originally created by Jim Henson as a member of The Muppets. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anton Ward is a frog (rebet) Genera Afrana Amietia Amnirana Amolops Aubria Batrachylodes Ceratobatrachus Chaparana Conraua Discodeles Euphlyctis Fejervarya Hildebrandtia Hoplobatrachus Huia Indirana Ingerana Lankanectes Lanzarana Limnonectes Meristogenys Micrixalus Minervarya Nannophrys Nanorana Nyctibatrachus Occidozyga Paa Palmatorappia Platymantis Pseudoamolops Pterorana Ptychadena Pyxicephalus Rana Sphaerotheca Staurois Strongylopus Tomopterna... Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings, see Bear (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Jim Hensons Muppet Babies is an American animated television program that aired from 1984 to 1991 on CBS. Loosely based on a sequence in the Muppet movie The Muppets Take Manhattan, the show portrayed childhood versions of Muppets living together in a large nursery in... Muppets From Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Jump to: navigation, search The existence of extraterrestrial life remains hypothetical though human beings continue to search Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

Originally in the first season of The Muppet Show the character was underplayed with a permanently sleepy look. The producers noticed that he worked better in a more energetic form and modified the eyes to have movable eyelids which helped make him a more active character. As such, he became one of the principal characters in the series.

His most well-known running gag is playing the final trumpet note of the opening Muppet Show theme and having some strange thing happen--the bell of the instrument explodes, sprays water, has an inflating balloon in it, et cetera. In the first season, Gonzo did not use a trumpet, but instead attempted to hit the white space within the "O" in the "Muppet Show" sign like a gong, usually with bad results. One of his most popular skits on The Muppet Show was his "Tap dancing in oatmeal." Jump to: navigation, search The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of Muppets (diverse hand operated puppets, typically with huge eyes and large moving mouths) produced by Jim Henson and his team from 1976 to 1981. ... Tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century, and today is popular all around the world. ... Oatmeal is a product made by processing oats. ...

He has several memorable performances such as his song from The Muppet Movie, "I'm Going to Go Back There Some Day", or his rendition of "My Way". Gonzo fans would also recognise this quote: "I shall now eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee...music, maestro!" Another famous performance is best summed up by his quote, "I shall now defuse this highly explosive bomb while simultaneously, and at the same time, reciting from the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley." Other acts include: dancing "Top Hat" in a vat of oatmeal, hypnotizing chickens and being hammered feet first into a railway tie by two American Gladiators. The Muppet Movie DVD cover The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Hensons Muppets. ... My Way is a popular song, which in its English-language version is an adaptation by Paul Anka of the French song Comme dhabitude, written by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. ... Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov is considered a sign of mastery of the violin. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... Jump to: navigation, search Massive ordinance air-burst bomb. ... Jump to: navigation, search Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was an English Romantic poet. ... American Gladiators was a TV show which ran between 1989 and 1997. ...

In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Gonzo played a Tin Man-ish character primarily known as the "Tin Thing." Promotional poster The Muppets Wizard of Oz, an original made-for-television movie, aired May 20, 2005 as a special Friday night edition of ABCs The Wonderful World of Disney. ... The Tin Woodman or Tin Woodsman, also known in films as Tin Man, is a character in L. Frank Baums Oz books. ...