Snoop Dogg

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Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (b. 1971), also known as Snoop Dogg, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Snoop Lion, is an American hip-hop emcee, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene.
Snoop Dogg filmed a celebrity cameo scene for It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. Snoop Dogg's brief scene, in which he interacted with Kermit and The Electric Mayhem backstage in The Muppet Theatre, was removed from the final cut of the 2002 telefilm by The Jim Henson Company and NBC, and was also absent from the DVD release, which included other deleted scenes. 
According to a press release published on Henson.com:
However, according to many media reports, the motives for cutting Snoop's scene were not simply time constraints. Reporters stated that producers had extra incentive to cut the Snoop footage when protest arose over mixing a hardened hip-hop artist with classic children's characters. 
Conservative radio show host Larry Elder, FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, and Project Islamic Hope's Najee Ali led a protest threatening an NBC boycott over the inclusion of Snoop Dogg in the family film. 
Najee Ali argued that the emcee was unfit for family television fare stating: 
Kermit himself was quite frank about the matter in a guest appearance on The Late Late Show on November 22, 2002. Host Craig Kilborn quizzed him about the situation. Kermit's response was as follows: 
Snoop's involvement in producing pornographic films included a contribution to the Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Writer Jim Lewis described the cut scene in a 2007 Q&A:
While visiting Paris, France, for the 2024 Olympic Games, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart met Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Tango during an episode of Access Hollywood. Snoop also appeared with Cookie Monster in a video posted to the latter's social media on August 3, 2024.
==References==
* When Bunsen experiences an identity crisis in Beaker's absence in episode 211 of Muppets Tonight, he dubs himself "Snoop Doggy Dew."
* Pache calls Kermit Snoop Froggy Frog in The Muppets episode "Got Silk."
* An officially licensed metal Muppet poster by Displate describes Rowlf as "The Original D-O-Double-G."
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==External links==
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