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Lamb Chop (puppet)

Lamb Chop is an anthropomorphic sheep sock puppet created by the puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. The character first appeared during Lewis's guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956 and later appeared on Hi Mom (1957–1959), a local morning show that aired on WRCA-TV in New York, New York.

Lamb Chop has been described as a "6-year-old girl, very intuitive and very feisty, a combination of obstinacy and vulnerability...you know how they say fools rush in where wise men fear to go? Well, Lamb Chop would rush in, then scream for help." Lamb Chop, in all her shows, had referred to her close friend, a girl named Lolly Pincus.

From 1960 to 1963, Lewis had her own musical-comedy network television program, The Shari Lewis Show. As children's programming turned more towards animation in the mid-1960s, she continued to perform in a wide range of venues.

In 1992, Lamb Chop and Lewis began their own PBS children's show, Lamb Chop's Play-Along, an Emmy Award winner for five consecutive years. The show was approximately 25 minutes per episode. On PBS, it premiered September 10, 1992 and was last shown on January 1, 1997. From 2007 to 2009, it was shown on Qubo.

In 1993, when Lewis appeared before the U.S. Congress in an oversight hearing on the Children's Television Act, Lamb Chop provided her own testimony.

In 1998, Lamb Chop co-starred with Lewis on the short-lived spin-off The Charlie Horse Music Pizza. The show was canceled after Lewis' death in 1998. The last episode of The Charlie Horse Music Pizza aired on January 17, 1999.

Before her death, Shari Lewis sold the rights of Lamb Chop to Golden Books Family Entertainment. When Golden filed for bankruptcy, Classic Media (later renamed DreamWorks Classics and now[when?] part of NBCUniversal) acquired Golden's entertainment catalog.

Lamb Chop is featured in the 2023 documentary Shari & Lamb Chop.

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