Five Sesame Street guest WAY more controversial than Katy Perry

With all the negative press Katy Perry received because of her wardrobe during a recent Sesame Street appearance, we here at The Broken Hourglass thought it might be time to point out five other guest host that are not fit to be around our children. So sit back and read about five other instances that Sesame Street pulled a WFT.

# 5: GENE SIMMONS

KISS made its name by donning high heels and spitting blood while simultaneously burning the eyebrows off of their audience with over the top pyrotechnics set to the soundtrack of such classics as Detroit Rock City and Rock and Roll all Night and party every day.

Gene simmons, born in Haifa, Israel in 1949, plays bass for the band while wearing ass-less chaps and supposedly bedding more than 4,600 groupies.

Lock up your wives and daughters!

We are not saying there is anything wrong with promiscuous sex, even on the grand scale that Mr. Simmons claims to have engaged in. What WE ARE saying is that, as parents, we don't want THIS cat around our kids.

VERDICT:

We'd rather have a someone who kissed a girl and liked it chasing Elmo around than Gene Simmons hanging around teaching our kids how to spell while probably smelling of Astroglide and motel bed sheets.

Kid tested, mother approved.

#4: MICHAEL JACKSON

Say what you will about the late, great pop star, but one this is abundantly clear: Michael Jackson loved kids.
Its not an understatement to say Michael Jackson had issues, the poor guy spent the last 9 years of his life battling record companies, child abuse claims, bankruptcy and finished out his life literally working himself to death.

All the while transforming himself from black man to white woman.

While he sold millions of albums, he also created an aura around himself of a "man-boy" who may or may not have liked little boys. We are not going to make bold statements about how guilty he was or what may have occured at his Neverland fortress, but we are going to say it would take an army of bear-riding Vikings to pry  our children away from our cold, dead hands to even see our kids in the same place as Wacko Jacko. 

Yep. We're boned.

THE VERDICT:

 Sesame Street should have passed on the Jebus Juice.

#3: ICE T

Every now and then, an artist comes around that confuses it's fan base by creating a career based in one field then eventually wanders into the field that they so violently spoke against. Ice T cut his teeth in the Hip/hop genre with such classics as "Pimpin aint so easy" and "Cop Killer". Years later, he would go on to play a cop on TV's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit".

From one side of the law to the other. We guess it pays better.

Did we mention that he also labels himself as a pimp? No? Yeah, and not the "women love me" kind of pimp either. We mean a "back hand those crazy hoes" kinda pimp.

Got my money, bitch?

Indeed, and Sesame Street thought it a good idea to let him hang with Elmo, presumably teaching him the finer things in life like pouring Cristal over hoes and making it rain.

THE VERDICT:

 And Katy Perry's boobs are offensive how?

#2: RICHARD PRYOR

Richard Pryor made a name for himself by using comedy to talk about racism. He also inspired just about ever up and coming comedian that ever saw him on television or heard his records. He also set himself on fire while trying to freebase cocaine and reportedly ran down the street screaming at the top of his lungs.

Pictured: Sesame Street material.

Did we mention the stand up? Pryor's comedy was peppered with harsh language and racial slurs to such a point that Sesame Street took notice and decided to let him hang around with muppets.

THE VERDICT:

 Although he could teach the importance of fire safety...

#1: PRINCE

It is in the professional opinion of us here at The Broken Hourglass that there just may not be anyone who enjoys sex more than Prince. Cracked.com pretty much summed up Prince in a way that we can't even come close to.

Making the ladies swoon since 1976.

Is it just us, or is Prince is the only person who looks less manly when he's not wearing lady clothes? See, this is why Prince is a national treasure who we will deeply miss when he's gone; he's the one man on Earth who has heard the phrase, "Hey, buddy, we'd be less uncomfortable over here if you'd put on a ruffled lace shirt and a pair of assless crushed velvet bell bottoms."




With Prince's love of sex, one must wonder what Sesame Street thought he could teach the children who watch their show.

Why Kermit? Why?

THE VERDICT:

 Does anyone else smell something?

You knew it was coming.

THE BOTTOM LINE: 

We are not saying that these people should not have allowed on Sesame Street, we are just making the point that if parents cried fowl on Katy Perry's knockers, where the fuck were they when these five guys were hosting?