Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson (b. 1956) is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He's well-known for his action movie roles in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, and he directed and starred in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial but successful film that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus Christ. 
Gibson recorded several sketches for Sesame Street in the early 1990s, including two "Monsterpiece Theater" skits.
* "Monsterpiece Theater": Gibson and co-star Danny Glover star in Lethal Weapon 3. Gibson and Glover read a sign that says DANGER. Suddenly, they duck and take cover from a gigantic stone number 3 which falls from the sky. 
* Telly Monster hosts "The Wide Wide World of the World" with special guests from Australia, Mel Gibson and a duck claiming to be a duck-billed platypus. 
* "Monsterpiece Theater": Gibson stars as Hamlet, looking at a book and reading "words, words, words." Elmo can't read yet, so he looks at "pictures, pictures, pictures." 
A clip of the Hamlet sketch was included in the 1994 special Stars and Street Forever.
==References==
* In the 1996 Muppets Tonight storybook Kermit's Big Surprise!, Miss Piggy is excited to meet her screen idol, "the Magnetic Mel Ibson". The character in the book actually looks more like Elvis Presley.
* After arriving on the planet Sykar in the Farscape episode "Thank God It's Friday. Again.," John Crichton references Gibson's film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, saying, "Oh, yeah, I think I've seen this one. Mel Gibson, Tina Turner. Cage Match." When Rygel is confused by what Crichton is saying, Crichton says "No, don't worry. Nobody saw the third one anyway."
* A 2004 "Global Thingy" sketch on Sesame Street spoofed Braveheart. 
* In episode 27 of From the Balcony, Statler mentions that his favorite 4th of July movie is Mel Gibson's The Patriot.
==External links==
* IMDb
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