Kermit the Frog at Dragon Con 2015 

He even looks somewhat like Jim.

​@@tinagemcgee6190 they even shared the same birthday

@@HerooftheWild And they have the same hand size. Steve was even nicknamed Kermit in his youth.

the frog? Uhm he has a name. 🤔 😂

I agree

100%% agreed

We want Kermit back

Jim's voice was deeper

@@NintendoNamcoAndNickFan Just a little.

@Pokèmon Master 08 He also didn't give him much of a temper like Jim did.

@Malchik Blue Jim did that the best but Steve did Kermit great in other ways.

Jim chose wisely.

You can look at her and she's hawking over Steve, monitoring everything he does and how he does it. It's really uncomfortable.

I grew up with Steve’s Kermit. The voice might not have been exact, but his personality is down to a T. I love that Kermit’s expression shifts at 5:24, as though he’s still listening. Thats what made Steve such a great fit.

taurinecat This guy on this vid is Steve Whitmire Jim Henson will be missed

@@SecondValveSteam me too

Not only by us fans, but his cast mates too, I'm sure Dave Goelz misses him greatly seeing how they worked very closely for almost 40 (39; 1978-2017) years. Brian Henson really messed up on this one, Steve is some he would've known since he was a teenager and wouldve worked with as a director and fellow performer and to take the word of some money hungry hellions over your so called friend and colleague of 30 something years, is disgraceful. I agree that Steve may've strayed from the original voice as a means to make Kermit more his own but he was always able to capture the essence of the original frog and the spirit of Jim, that's something that cannot be duplicated easily. And moreover Matt was a miscast for the simple fact he already plays Robin, and just as Steve inherited a portion of Jim's characters, Matt inherited Jerry Nelson's characters and that was something that shouldn't have been tampered with. Steve is one of the three original core muppeteers from the original Muppet Show still alive and he shouldve been kept on as long as humanly possible.

Blame disney for that

i am not sad..i am having a great day

Lidoe 1612 nope, the Henson children

He was an asshole in private apparently, wouldnt be surprised

@@morti8845 Not true

DRoHoFG he does actually sounds a bit like him😂

😮😮

Steve was amazing. Jim will always be Kermit but Steve will always be the second best to me.

Disney doesn't rehire people. Plus it wouldn't be fair to Matt Vogel who does Kermit now and really enjoys it.

​@@Asukenick that didn't stop them from rehiring James Gunn to do GotG Vol. 3 and Matt Vogel, I respect the man, but he just isn't it. Sounds too much like Constantine imitating Kermit and yes, I know he voiced Constantine as well

Like Disney doesn't have money

He spoke up a bit too much about the changes and direction of how things were going. They should have listened.

Maybe a little. They share the same birthday too.

I think he looks more like Jim Carrey

Free_samples234 I think more like Robby Benson.

Yes. Maybe intentional since that was his mentor.

Maybe Jim possessed Steve when he was doing Kermit hence why Steve started to look like him! Lol

Whitmire and Henson.

Dave Goelz is the only puppeteer who can still do Gonzo

Yeah I was born in the 90s and grew up with both Steve's and Jim's and never could really tell the difference between them.

He said in an interview he's been very busy doing his own stuff.

He's a saint.

Steve was perfect with Kermit. This might not be the best example but I still like it.

Steve did a great job but no one can replace Jim. I'm just sad Steve got fired.

Some of it might be poor writing

You are a sad strange little human and you have my pity

I don't think he deserved it.

He sounded very confident he was Kermit in this interview and he was negating that Disney owned Muppets and the new way in my opinion

@@rodvarmo Either way I think he still did a fantastic job.

@@rodvarmo True there, yet Matt is starting to grow on me

I fully agree. He's really not trying with the voice after a few minutes. That Hi-ho was WEAK.

I agree. No one can replace his original voice: Jim Henson himself RIP

+disneyphilip were entitled to our own option no need to be rude about it

I'd like to share my favorite section from a talk with Steve Whitmire and Eric Jacobson, because it's something that every Muppet fan should realize: Interviewer: You clearly come close to the voice, but I'm wondering if you ever made any effort to differentiate yourself a little bit. Steve: No, but I can't help it. I'm not a mimic, really. Interviewer: I mean, it's pretty close. Steve: It's in the same ballpark, and it's been 26 years, so I think people have grown accustomed to it. I had a lot of criticism in the beginning and I understand it. I'd walk into a room, and people would say "You sound exactly like Jim" and then people would say "You don't sound anything like Jim". One of the most embarrassing things I did, in the early days we did this phone-in radio thing, to these kinda shock-jocks. So they weren't very nice people to begin with. And they were talking to Kermit, and they spent the whole interview saying "You don't sound anything like Kermit" to Kermit. It was so hard. What could I do? I had to say it was Kermit. So I get it. But we don't have any choice. I hear a lot of people writing or talking online about Jim's Kermit, or Frank's Fozzie or Frank's Piggy vs. Eric's Piggy. And from our point of view, I understand that, but it's a non-existent difference. There's no Frank's Piggy, it's Piggy. And that's the way we have to approach it. Because it doesn't get shared. This is who she is now. They do have to evolve. That's really important. Eric: Yeah, evolve is the right word. Obviously, these characters are gonna be different on our hands than our predecessors. But we're accepting of that. It was hard for me at first, because I wanted to able to fool people. And maybe you can do that for a little while, but eventually especially with the Internet these days, people are gonna know. And so I had to come to terms with that, and realize that I'm not Frank. And nobody can be somebody else. But perhaps Piggy can still be Piggy, and be a little bit different than she was before but totally in-character. Totally a character that you can believe in, and continue to believe in and be entertained by.

no yeah I totally get that. i never said steve was bad, hes a great puppeteer and he's got a lot of the muppets magic in him. but in my personal opinion i simply never cared for his version that's. i wasn't comparing him to jim i was simply say that steve kinda brought a hole new kind of personality to kermit and i just personally never cared for it.

No way its fantastic. Jim did do it the best of course.

who are you trying to convince? us? jim or you? Personally I love both!

I never could tell the difference; I grew up with this voice. Muppet Treasure Island is my favorite muppet movie, and I know it was Steve voicing Captain Arrow.