Under The Puppet
Hosted by Grant Baciocco and Grant and Grant Perry and Grant Reynolds · Saturday Morning Media
4.7from 61 ratings
- 131
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 71K
- YouTube views
About Under The Puppet
Since 2017. Under The Puppet is a monthly show that is preserving puppetry through the personal stories of professional puppeteers. Guests include puppeteers from The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Jim Henson Company and more. The show also covers other forms of puppetry such as marionettes, shadow puppetry and Bunraku . Hosted by puppeteer Grant Baciocco (The Jim Henson Company, Mystery Science Theatre 3000).
- Publisher
- Saturday Morning Media
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 May 2017
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 131 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
124 - Artie Esposito (Muppets, Jungle Book, Crank Yankers) - Under The Puppet
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
123 - Lee Armstrong (Fraggle Rock, Images In Motion)
1 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
122 - Behind the Scenes with ventriloquist Terry Fator
Inside a recent episode
124 - Artie Esposito (Muppets, Jungle Book, Crank Yankers) - Under The Puppet
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I decided I wanted to be a puppeteer when I was four years old. We were in kindergarten and the teacher asked us to draw what we wanted to be when we grew up. And people were drawing like doctors and firemen and things like that. And I drew Ernie from Sesame Street. And she said, is that Ernie? And I was like, yeah. She said, you want to be Ernie when you grow up? And I said, well, I want to be the man who performs Ernie. And she said, well, that man's name is Jim Henson, and he's a puppeteer. And I said, well, that's what I want to do. Wow. That's a good teacher there. Yeah. I was surprised. […]
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- Artie Esposito
- Lee Armstrong
- Terry Fator
- Honey Goodenough
- Nicolas Coppola
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 71,098
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts Under The Puppet?
Grant Baciocco and Grant and Grant Perry and Grant Reynolds host the show. Published by Saturday Morning Media.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Under The Puppet take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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