Elvis Costello’s first major U.S. TV appearance was on a December 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live — a gig he got because the Sex Pistols, originally booked for the show, didn’t want anything to do with New York. Costello’s single at the time was “Radio Radio,” a song that was (weirdly enough) controversial in its day, and the show’s producers supposedly didn’t want him to play it. But in a thrilling TV moment, he played it anyway when the cameras started rolling. The video below is pretty much the opposite of all of that.
On a recent Sesame Street episode, Costello showed up to sing a parody of “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” called “Monster Went And Ate My Red 2.” It’s about how the Cookie Monster’s eating habits make it more difficult for Costello to count, and it’s kind of a stretch. Elmo wears an approximation of Costello’s trademark look and looks about as slick as Elmo can possibly look. Watch it below.
Elvis Costello’s taste in ties has gone radically downhill since 1977.
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Also, (the puppeteer who mans) Elmo was on The Daily Show (@ 13:27) the other night. He doesn’t look like you’d expect him to look!
That picture of Elvis and random hipster Sesame Street puppet is going to become my desktop picture ASAP. That sort of made my day.
So, I was just told by my students that that puppet is none other than Elmo. I told them I couldn’t tell when he was not in profile, and he had those glasses on, sort of a Clark Kent thing. One retorted with, “So, if I was wearing glasses you wouldn’t be able to tell it was me?” which I replied, “Are you a Muppet?”.
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see tom waits, that is. not like I’m using tom waits as a verb.