Lamb Chop is a sock puppet sheep created by comedian and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. In 1957, Lamb Chop, a ewe, first appeared with Lewis on Hi Mom, a local morning show that aired on WNBC in 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."[1] Lamb Chop, in all her shows, had referred to her close friend, a girl named Lolly Pincus.
During the 1960s, Shari Lewis had her own musical-comedy network television show. After children's programming turned to animation, she continued to perform in a wide range of venues. In 1992, Lamb Chop and Shari began their own PBS children's show, Lamb Chop's Play-Along, an Emmy Award winner for five consecutive years.[2] The show lasted approximately 25 minutes per episode. On PBS, it premiered September 10, 1992 and was last shown on January 1, 1997. It has been shown on Qubo since then.
Lamb Chop and Lewis made a cameo appearance in the second season of the sitcom The Nanny in the episode "Lamb Chop's On the Menu" (February 13, 1995).
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop appeared on an episode of Sesame Street (May 17, 1996).
Lamb Chop had a cameo in the opening concert scene in the 1998 movie Wrongfully Accused.
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