Is This the Man Behind the Muppet Show's Swedish Chef?


	Is This the Man Behind the Muppet Show's Swedish Chef?

wiccantexan

8-8-2009 2:57 PM

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cooking, television, muppet, chef

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8-9-2009 12:25 PM

tanyamm

Wow! The Muppet Swedish chef was real. Who'da thunk it!

8-9-2009 1:11 PM

bignosemousie

The Swedish Chef was one of my favorite Muppets.

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Someone considerably less known, however, is Lars Kuprik Backman, the man who for years has claimed he's the real-life model for the whimsical kitchen oddball of <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=2705325&page=1">the popular TV show</A>.
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But, the jovial and somewhat rotund Backman continued, it was not only the way he looked in the 1970s that made him think he <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=6491264">inspired the late Jim Henson</A> to create the crazy puppet chef who tosses cutlery and pans around the kitchen while babbling incomprehensibly in a "Swenglish" accent. 
"There are so many things that make it difficult to think that it wouldn't be me," he said.
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Henson, the late founder of the "Muppet Show" and a driving force behind <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=6090915">Sesame Street</A> just like many others at the company, often drop into the kitchen to greet Backman and his staff, Backman claims.
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