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Bob Flanagan Original Koch Brothers Muppets Used for Saturday Night Live Sketch.
These are the original Koch Brothers Muppets used on a sketch on Saturday Night Live. These original Koch Brothers muppets come from the personal collection of master puppeteer Bob Flanagan who worked alongside Jim Henson in the New York Mupppet Workshop, and are designed to the exact specifications used at the Muppet Workshop. The two Koch Brothers Muppets are accompanied by the original sketches used in their creation as well as several oufit accessories created for them. The Muppets, sketches and accessories come from the personal collection of pioneer puppeteer Bob Flanagan, who from the Muppets, to SNL and Off-Braodway conquered it all! Bob Flanagan made puppets since the “glory days” of puppetry—working alongside Jim Henson making secondary and background characters for the Muppets and Sesame Street—as well as 27 seasons of Saturday Night Live.
Bob Flanagan, who passed away this year, was a puppet builder who worked in the New York Muppet Workshop with Jim Henson in the 1980s. As part of the Sesame Street team, he shared in a Daytime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design. Flanagan operated his own company, Den Design Studio, which supplied puppets, costumes, and specialty props for Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (including Sesame-style puppets on the latter). He also worked extensively on stage productions, including puppets and props for the Broadway production of Wicked (including the Time Dragon and Lion Cub) and puppet and mask designs for off-Broadway shows Beowulf, The Hairy Ape, and The Emperor Jones (the last earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design).
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