{"id":443588,"date":"2026-01-30T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443588\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:06:13","slug":"watch-kermit-the-frog-on-muppet-show-return-magic-johnson-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443588\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kermit the Frog on &#8216;Muppet Show&#8217; return, Magic Johnson yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jan. 30 (UPI) &#8212; Kermit the Frog stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday to discuss The Muppet Show special and Magic Johnson&#8217;s yacht.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I was trying to get the special off the ground, which you know, it took a while, Jimmy,&#8221; Kermit explained <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PcN6WnpZxKU?si=IjcRoQi5hllgTx0t\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on the show.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on the show.<\/a> &#8220;You know, it turns out that a lot of people in Hollywood say &#8216;yes,&#8217; when they actually mean &#8216;no.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the interview continued, Kimmel asked Kermit if he&#8217;d have any interest in guest hosting the show over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Yeah, I mean, that would be great,&#8221; Kermit responded. &#8220;But you know what? Gee, Jimmy, it&#8217;s a good thing that it wasn&#8217;t last summer because I got invited to go on Magic Johnson&#8217;s yacht.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An image of the duo then appeared on the screen with a sunset in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Muppet Show special will air on ABC and Disney+ on Wednesday, and will also star Seth Rogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 30 (UPI) &#8212; Kermit the Frog stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday to discuss The Muppet Show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,4592,183344,29907,183345,80463,348,96563],"class_list":["post-443588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-kermit","tag-magic-johnson","tag-muppets-most-wanted","tag-the-muppet-show","tag-tv","tag-yacht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}