Lamb Chop



Lamb Chop is a hand puppet lamb made famous by ventriloquist/puppeteer Shari Lewis. Lamb Chop debuted in 1957 on Bob Keeshan's Captain Kangaroo, and soon headlined several television series with Lewis and fellow puppets Hush Puppy and Charlie Horse, including The Shari Lewis Show, Lamb Chop's Play-Along, and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza. Shari and Lamb Chop were featured guests on Episode 3525 of Sesame Street, in which a female duck desperately tries to become like Lamb Chop. The pair also appeared in a celebrity version of "The Alphabet Song".

Following the death of Shari Lewis in 1998, daughter Mallory Lewis Tarcher took over the role. In 2001, the Kidsnet Lamb Chop Award was given to Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morriset, and the late Jim Henson (accepted by Jane Henson) for the creation of Sesame Street. In 2003, Lamb Chop joined Grover and Fozzie Bear at the Pittsburgh Puppetry Conference.