Every one of 'em.
I’m 76.
Most of them. My mother liked to take me to interpetive dance performances like Mummenschanz and Joffrey when they were in town, so that name is well known to me.
Before my last birthday, dirt was older’n me, and it is amazing that I recognized so many names, having forgotten more’n I ever knew.
I only knew her from the L’Eggs commercial which was on all the fucking time.
20 out of 24, I’m 64.
Sacre Bleu! Mon Dieu!
My only excuse is that they were both French and highly regarded singers. 
I’m 52. I got four names into the list and already knew where it came from. Huge fan.
I’ll be 66 in August and I know 19.
I never watched the muppet’s..
I think Kaye Ballard might be an Opera Singer, but I’m not confident enough to count her.
I knew her as one of those annoying Mother-In-Laws.
You’re thinking Florence Griffith-Joiner. Florence Henderson played Mrs. Brady.
Paul Williams wrote The Rainbow Connection, amongst a great many other songs. I’m particularly fond of The Hell of It.
Harvey Korman was a comic. He was a regular on The Carol Burnett Show (he’s the tall one) and was a main character in Blazing Saddles.
Same here. Looking at her Wikipedia entry, I see that she was also a singer (which I didn’t know previously); I’d mostly known her as a comic actress from the '60s.
(Also, my sister-in-law looks more than a little like her.)
I mentioned earlier that I never watched the show. As I think more about it, I don’t think I knew they had an existence outside of Sesame Street But they did a movie too, right? It must have been a thing when I was in college and law school and didn’t have a TV. Was it a Saturday morning cartoon thing, or a prime time show?
It was a just before Prime Time show. 7:30pm in EST. I believe it was the last major Variety Show (not counting SNL type shows)
With one exception (Kermit, who was Jim Henson’s signature Muppet, and who long predated Sesame Street), all of the Muppets on that show are created specifically for that show, and didn’t generally appear on shows or movies that aren’t directly associated with it.
Multiple movies, in fact.
The show itself ran from 1976 through 1981, and it was syndicated in the U.S., meaning that each station that bought it in syndication chose the time slot in which to run it. It wasn’t necessarily a Saturday morning show, nor was it necessarily a kids’ show, though some local stations may have chosen to run it then. In Green Bay, where I watched the show originally, it ran in the “pre-prime-time” slot (6:30pm Central) that @What_Exit mentions, which typically is a half-hour slot in between the local newscast and the start of the network’s prime-time programming; it wouldn’t surprise me if that was primarily when it was run.
22 of 24, don’t know the same two as everyone else with the same score. I’m almost 60.
Ethel Merman was a Broadway singer, who acted in the occasional movie.
Esther Williams was the swimmer.
~VOW
Me too. I heard it was a rights issue, but I thought that once they got bought by the Mouse that would get resolved.
“In the Navy” done with Viking pigs was a classic.
I’m 51 and recognized every name, though I couldn’t say what I know Bruce Forsythe or Kaye Ballard were notable for. I don’t recall ever missing TMS when I was young, though. : ) Did the Late Show’s spoof of the hearings bring this about?
Connie Stevens
Joel Grey
Ruth Buzzi
Rita Moreno
Paul Williams
Sandy Duncan
Candice Bergen
Ben Vereen
Twiggy
Mummenschanz
What do these names have in common?
Can i just say, I’m impressed you got all the way to the end of the thread without clicking a spoiler? Grover would be proud!
nope, that ain’t it
I think I did see at least one of the movies, but all of these people were known to me through the other work they did.