Whenever you think the show has gone as far as it can go, Chatman and Lee will dream up something even more audacious -- as they did in the first season's "Patience" episode. After viewers were subjected to an excruciatingly slow first 15 minutes, the entire thing ran backward, only to be followed by another version of the show in super-fast-forward mode.
For adults who appreciate cynical, pitch-black satire, Wonder Showzen is a dream come true. But younger children will be confused and upset by the things coming out of the furry, brightly colored puppets' mouths, and even some older teens may not be able to place the show's humor in the right context.
It's absolutely a good idea to preview each episode before sharing it with children of any age -- and if you decide to keep it to yourself, enjoy Families can talk about what makes this show funny.
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Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Then we walked around the corner, and watched as he kept talking to the camera. I remember laughing so hard. Lee was also in the city, playing in the band Muckafurgason, and eventually cocreating the art collective-slash-band PFFR.
We would meet every week, record a song, and do all these drawings. That was in the lead-up to Wonder Showzen. But we were never part of the comedy scene—we were sort of a bubble unto ourselves. And we would not say a word. Chatman: It was that same Errol Morris technique—put a camera on someone, and see what drama lives inside the person. Do you know my sister? Lee: We were trying to leave one place, and people called downstairs.
Security caught us and took our tape. So they talk to it. Chatman: It was John holding the camera, me with the puppet, and both of us daring each other to not puss out. Doormen are easy, because they have their machismo, and their job is to protect the space. And people getting aggressive with a puppet was always the funniest. Jim Tozzi character designer; cofounder, PFFR : Vernon is very anarchic, and always pulls some social commentary out of his comedy. And John is very playful and absurd.
And the thing I learned working with them is that you want to polarize people. Chatman: Eventually, we had all these little pieces—a little cartoon that was just stills, some real kids telling jokes that we bleeped out—and we got Chris Milone, the main editor on The Chris Rock Show , to edit this eight-minute tape for free. Lee: Vernon and I started talking about pitching this tape as a show.
He [worked on] Cops , and is super-successful. He loved the tape, and he bid aggressively—kind of against nobody. We were wary of it being too slick. We made the pilot right after John and I got married in , in an office in some building in west midtown. We had maybe six people working on it, and we shot some of it in a super-tiny storage closet.
We had loads of flag-burning scenes in the show, and I was supposed to light them on fire. But I was always putting them out too quickly, because I was afraid the whole room was gonna go up. We only had two flags, and I ruined both shots. They teased me about it for years.
Then he got fired. Lisa Thomas media producer : We totally freaked them out. Chris Milone editor : I think John and Vernon were secretly happy about it.
We would have been handcuffed at USA. That was before I was even involved with the show. We repurposed some stuff, like Jackass. Work on the first season of the newly revived, newly rechristened Wonder Showzen began in the fall of in New York City. Levy: We never had different departments, which is weird for TV. So I did everything—I was in charge of hair and makeup, wardrobe, and art.
Wonder Showzen was a truly magical time period for all of us. And for a lot of people, it was their first-ever job. Jessica Vitkus supervising producer, Season 2 : Everybody in Wonder Showzen was an extra in something. They knew I was a crafter on the side, so for one scene, I made some puppets out of oven mitts, or whatever I could find.
Chatman: After the show got picked up, we wanted a few more main puppets, so we could have more story lines and have a little team of characters. He had a big shock of white hair and this crazy workshop down in the Lower East Side, and he did really good work. But after 35 years of glue inhalation, his brain was gone. He got mad about a shade of color we wanted for a puppet and threw us out of the studio.
We discovered the world of puppet people is really weird. Levy: We never made any puppets at Wonder Showzen. They were done by Geppetto Studios in New York, who were weirdos in their own right. And I never went on the shoots with Clarence. Chatman: We got kicked and punched a lot. We got knives pulled on us twice in one day. Lisa Schiller production assistant : I had to explain to people what had just happened. And there were a lot of angry people.
Not everyone was happy with a puppet in their face. My strategy changed from person to person—I had to be able to read them. You guys are gonna make me go back to Rikers. Schiller: John and Vernon would usually warn me as they walked away whether the person was going to be agreeable or not. They were looking for real kids. Lee: Those were some of the most fun days we ever had.
Certain kids would have the spark in their eye. Clem: Much of my job was talking with the parents of the children. I was more worried about having my kid involved in some dumb Disney show with canned laughter and sexist jokes. And I definitely did not want him doing commercials.
Wonder Showzen was the opposite—it was radical for the time. That was exciting. Heins: Some of the jokes were a foreign concept to me. And John and Vernon were pretty much goofy grown-ups. It was another way to have our voice come through something cute and tolerable. It was also brought to you by Whitey's God Sauce. Space is the second episode of the first season. Whenever you think the show has gone as far as it can go, Chatman and Lee will dream up something even more audacious -- as they did in the first season's "Patience" episode.
Lauren is a child on Wonder Showzen. Hostage's story, being called a sissy boy. Appearance Edit. He is in a total of three episodes.
This is the first appearance of Him, Wordsworth and Sthugar's comfirmed designs. That's Racist Edit. Wonder Showzen — is a chaotic mix of puppets, He is most known for the "That's Racist" meme.
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