Victor Yerrid
Victor Yerrid is an actor.
Yerrid is a puppeteer, which on a credit list looks like an acting career and is in fact a physical trade. He performs for the Jim Henson Company, and his best-known work in that world is the online series Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony, where he performed Waldorf, one half of the two old men heckling from the box.
The screen credits track the arc of American puppetry over twenty years. Greg the Bunny put him in a live-action sitcom populated by puppets who work as actors, playing Tardy the Turtle, and Warren the Ape carried a version of that world into a mock-documentary format. Sid the Science Kid is the children's television end of the business. Then came The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the most demanding job on the list: he voiced Hup and performed other characters in a production that put full-scale creature puppetry back on television.
The Happytime Murders is the adult-comedy version of the same craft, and Drawn Together plus a bit part in a studio romance fill out the rest. It is a specific, unglamorous career, and it has been on screen far more often than his name has.
Movies (2)
TV (5)
Where to start with Victor Yerrid
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance first, without hesitation. It is the best showcase of what he does, both as the voice of Hup and as a performer inside other characters, and it is the rare modern production that treats puppetry as a serious form rather than a nostalgia act.
For the comedy half of the craft, Greg the Bunny is foundational, a sitcom about puppets with agents and grievances, and Warren the Ape extends the joke into mockumentary. The Happytime Murders is the crude studio-scale attempt at the same idea, interesting mostly for the puppet work going on under the gags.
Drawn Together is animation rather than puppetry and a good reminder that his voice works without his hands, while Just Like Heaven and Sid the Science Kid are the outer edges: one a bit part in a studio romance, the other the preschool day job that keeps a puppeteer employed.