Peter Sellers on The Muppet Show

In the dressing room with the star on the door, he stands:

corset, horned helmet, a wispy beard

attached with spirit glue, his face crazed in the full-length

mirror. From behind his clipboard, Kermit

is empathetic: Mr. Sellers, you don’t have to play a character

here—you can be yourself. Sellers twists his face

like an actor twisting his face: Zere iss no Peter Sellerss here—

I had heem surgically rrrremoved.

At which point

the hand inside the puppet clenches, pulling

Kermit’s face into a cringe.