I Saw Myself in Kermit (Ep 565 - The Muppet Show/Dan)

To mark the recent re-re-re-rebooting of The Muppet Show , this week we’re heading into the Sewers archives to revisit my 2020 interview with Dan Steadman. Dan grew up in a household that was so religious, his parents forbade him from watching certain episodes of The Muppet Show , due to a guest appearance by Alice Cooper. His upbringing in a sheltered religious community found him placed in a lot of unusual circumstances, including a reboot of his entire identity when his family swapped lives with a family in Brazil. A career in showbiz took him to Los Angeles, where he worked alongside big-time celebrities and also faced a crisis — the more comfortable he was living as an openly gay man, the more he realized that he’d have to cut ties with some of the homophobic celebrities he worked with.

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I Saw Myself in Kermit (Ep 565 - The Muppet Show/Dan) is an episode from The Sewers of Paris by Matt Baume.

This episode is 01:07:36 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2026.

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