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* '''Richard Hunt:''' A PromotedFanboy who was hired to join the Muppets right out of high school in 1970, after building and performing his own puppets for children's birthday parties, he became a mainstay of the troupe, performing much-loved characters like Scooter, Janice, Beaker (his personal favorite), Statler, Sweetums, Wayne, Gladys the Cow, Don Music, Placido Flamingo, Sully, Sonny Friendly, Forgetful Jones, Junior Gorg, Gunge and many others. By TheEighties had become the Muppets' main talent scout, and the "puppet captain" on ''Sesame Street'', which made him the main mentor for the newer generation of performers who joined in that era. His death from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 40 was a big blow to the organization just as it was recovering from the loss of Jim Henson; some of his characters have never been recast, while others took a long time to find new performers. On two occasions - Scooter in ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' and Richard's half of the Two-Headed Monster in a ''Sesame Street'' PC game - the replacement performer [[ItRunsInTheFamily was Richard's own brother, Adam]] [[labelnote:*]]who'd previously been one the dozens of puppeteers in the final scene of ''The Muppet Movie''[[/labelnote]]. Outside the Muppets he had small acting roles in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and ''Oxford Blues'' (the latter as a result of his OddFriendship with the film's star Creator/RobLowe). He's the subject of ''Funny Boy'', a 2024 biography by Jessica Max Stein that details his fascinating life spent at the intersection of LifeOfTheParty and SadClown, with unexpected cameos by the likes of Music/BobDylan and Music/TheSexPistols, among others.[[note]]Before he started working with the Muppets full-time, Hunt took his puppets to Dylan's Greenwich Village flat to be the entertainment at young [[Music/TheWallflowers Jakob Dylan's]] birthday party, while he had a rather awkward chance meeting with the Pistols when he first went to London to work on ''The Muppet Show'', with neither party knowing what exactly to make of one another.[[/note]]
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* '''Richard Hunt:''' A PromotedFanboy who was hired to join the Muppets right out of high school in 1970, after building and performing his own puppets for children's birthday parties, he became a mainstay of the troupe, performing much-loved characters like Scooter, Janice, Beaker (his personal favorite), Statler, Sweetums, Wayne, Gladys the Cow, Don Music, Placido Flamingo, Sully, Sonny Friendly, Forgetful Jones, Junior Gorg, Gunge and many others. By TheEighties had he would become the Muppets' main talent scout, and the "puppet captain" on ''Sesame Street'', which made him the main mentor for the newer generation of performers who joined in that era. His death from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 40 was a big blow to the organization just as it was recovering from the loss of Jim Henson; some of his characters have never been recast, while others took a long time to find new performers. On two occasions - Scooter in ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' and Richard's half of the Two-Headed Monster in a ''Sesame Street'' PC game - the replacement performer [[ItRunsInTheFamily was Richard's own brother, Adam]] [[labelnote:*]]who'd previously been one the dozens of puppeteers in the final scene of ''The Muppet Movie''[[/labelnote]]. Outside the Muppets he had small acting roles in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and ''Oxford Blues'' (the latter as a result of his OddFriendship with the film's star Creator/RobLowe). He's the subject of ''Funny Boy'', a 2024 biography by Jessica Max Stein that details his fascinating life spent at the intersection of LifeOfTheParty and SadClown, with unexpected cameos by the likes of Music/BobDylan and Music/TheSexPistols, among others.[[note]]Before he started working with the Muppets full-time, Hunt took his puppets to Dylan's Greenwich Village flat to be the entertainment at young [[Music/TheWallflowers Jakob Dylan's]] birthday party, while he had a rather awkward chance meeting with the Pistols when he first went to London to work on ''The Muppet Show'', with neither party knowing what exactly to make of one another.[[/note]]
