Eric Jacobson

Eric Jacobson is a puppeteer and Muppet performer, who has been the primary replacement puppeteer for Frank Oz's characters since 2001.

Jacobson initially started playing Bert in 1997, but officially joined the cast as Bert and additional Muppets in 2000.Fact|date=June 2008 His role expanded in 2002 to include new Grover segments, particularly "Global Grover". In 2001 he and David Rudman played Cookie Monster until 2002 when Sesame Workshop chose David as Cookie so there would be more interaction between Bert and Grover.

His second role came in 2001 with "The Book of Pooh", where he worked on Piglet and Kanga. That year, he also began playing Miss Piggy, debuting at the "Muppetfest" convention. Subsequently, in "It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" (2002), he performed the roles of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal. In "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" (2005) he performed all of these characters, as well as Sam the Eagle.

Jacobson currently is a puppeteer for many Muppet productions, for "Sesame Street", and "Play with Me Sesame" (2002 on).

Jacobson appeared as the Little Bad Wolf in the pilot episode of "Jack's Big Music Show" [September 12, 2005] .

He resides in New York City with his wife Mary and dog Emmy.

Notable Roles

* "The Muppets" - Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal (2002-present), Sam the Eagle (2005-present)

* "Sesame Street" - Bert, Grover (2000-present), Cookie Monster (2002, 2005) and Guy Smiley

* "Play With Me Sesame" - Bert & Grover

* "Bear in the Big Blue House" - Harry the Duck

Guest-appearances

Jacobson's Miss Piggy has appeared on "Rove Live" [November 25, 2003] , "Live with Regis and Kelly" [May 19, 2005] , "The Tony Danza Show" [May 23, 2005; November 3, 2005] , "Good Morning America"Fact|date=March 2008, "This Morning" [September 19, 2005] . His Grover has appeared on "Good Morning Australia" [March 9, 2004] , "Rove Live" [March 8, 2005] , and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Fact|date=March 2008. His Fozzie has appeared on "Saturday Night Live" [December 18, 2004] , and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" [May 13, 2005] . ' included Muppet guests, such as Jacobson's Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and AnimalFact|date=March 2008. Jacobson's Bert appeared in episode 22 of "Between the Lions season 2, "Tweet! Tweet!" [May 1, 2001] .

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