--- title: Emmys Promo: Kermit and Miss Piggy Schmooze with Viola Davis description: Kermit and Piggy are trying to make it work—as friends canonical: https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T14:53:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:47.104Z og:title: Emmys Promo: Kermit and Miss Piggy Schmooze with Viola Davis og:description: Kermit and Piggy are trying to make it work—as friends og:url: https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e920b829b3a0b1/698863d02dce017af19e5871/screen-shot-2015-09-16-at-15-52-33.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-09-16 at 15.52.33 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emmys Promo: Kermit and Miss Piggy Schmooze with Viola Davis twitter:description: Kermit and Piggy are trying to make it work—as friends twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e920b829b3a0b1/698863d02dce017af19e5871/screen-shot-2015-09-16-at-15-52-33.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Miss Piggy and Kermit Team Up With Joel McHale, Viola Davis and Julie Bowen to Promote the Emmy Awards by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 16, 2015 2:53 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 16, 2015 2:53 PM UTC The news cycle has been full of reports over Miss Piggy’s and Kermit the Frog’s very [public break up](http://time.com/3984109/kermit-miss-piggy-break-up/) and both of them have come out with [new relationships](http://time.com/4019616/kermit-pig-new-girlfriend/), including Miss Piggy’s tryst with [singer Josh Groban](http://time.com/4025356/miss-piggy-new-boyfriend-josh-groban/). So it’s a bit of a surprise to see them lunching together in a new video—but whatever it takes to promote the Emmy Awards. In the clip, the exes do their best to behave civilly towards each other. But Miss Piggy, [noted feminist](http://time.com/3908787/miss-piggy-feminist/), can’t behave civilly towards _Modern Family_ star Julie Bowen when she delivers the ultimate insult in the form of a bottle of champagne. Luckily Viola Davis manages to escapes the pig’s wrath, because not even Miss Piggy would dare to mess with the _How To Get Away With Murder_ star (unless [she owed Miss Piggy money](http://time.com/3964518/miss-piggy-rihanna-bbhmm/), of course). In the wake of Miss Piggy’s outburst the paparazzi show up and the only one who can comfort Kermit is _Community_ star Joel McHale, who has no problem with green people at all. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/"},"headline":"Miss Piggy and Kermit Team Up With Joel McHale, Viola Davis and Julie Bowen to Promote the Emmy Awards","datePublished":"2015-09-16T14:53:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:47.104Z","description":"Kermit and Piggy are trying to make it work—as friends","url":"https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Muppets","Viola Davis","emmys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e920b829b3a0b1/698863d02dce017af19e5871/screen-shot-2015-09-16-at-15-52-33.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9e920b829b3a0b1/698863d02dce017af19e5871/screen-shot-2015-09-16-at-15-52-33.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-09-16 at 15.52.33","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4036186/miss-piggy-kermit-emmy-promo/","name":"Miss Piggy and Kermit Team Up With Joel McHale, Viola Davis and Julie Bowen to Promote the Emmy Awards"}}]}] ```