I can honestly say I’ve never watched The Bill O’Reilly Show…except for his foul mouth “flip out” behind the scenes video on Youtube. This recent video posting however, has garnered a couple of watches from yours truly.

Sesame Workshop VP Sherrie Westin introduces Bill O’Reilly to Spill O’Reilly. In my opinion the puppetry isn’t that well performed; the eyeline and lip sync were off.  The puppet doesn’t look that well built either; it’s clothes aren’t that well tailored, and are half hanging off the puppet. I know the character is a grouch so the trashy look might have been done on purpose, but there is just something about the character that screams that it was thrown together at the last minute. His “pop up” entrance is pretty corn ball too.  In all fairness to the puppeteer though, he probably didn’t have a monitor so I forgive him a bit for the eyeline problem. 

As I watched this I was stunned to find that Bill O’Reilly actually has a sense of humour…or is too dumb to realize he was being made fun of. LOL Nonetheless, a good watch.

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