Eric Jacobson

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Eric Jacobson b July 25 1970 is a puppeteer and Muppet performer who has been the primary replacement puppeteer for Frank Ozs characters since 2001 Jacobson initially started playing Bert in 1997 but officially joined the cast as Bert and additional Muppets in 2000 His role expanded in 2002 to include new Grover segments particularly Global Grover In 2001 he and David Rudman played Cookie Monster until 2002 when Sesame Workshop chose David as Cookie so there would be more interaction between BertGrover and Cookie Monster His second role came in 2001 with The Book of Pooh where he worked on Piglet and Kanga That year he also began playing Miss Piggy debuting at the Muppetfest convention Subsequently in Its a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie 2002 he performed the roles of Miss Piggy Fozzie Bear and Animal In The Muppets Wizard of Oz 2005 he performed all of these characters as well as Sam the Eagle Jacobson currently is a puppeteer for many Muppet productions for Sesame Street and Play with Me Sesame 2002 on Jacobson appeared as the Little Bad Wolf in the pilot episode of Jacks Big Music Show Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Jacobson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia