‘The Elephant & Piggie Show’ Is an ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Reunion
If you liked The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and you really, really should have, then The Elephant & Piggie Show! may be for you. Or really, for your kids. Paramount+ announced Thursday that the voices of BFFs Elephant and Piggie will be played by former Kimmy Schmidt co-stars (and onscreen BFFs), Tituss Burgess and Ellie Kemper. In addition, Neil Patrick Harris will voice the bus driver role in The Pigeon Show! Starring The Pigeon. It is pretty solid casting for preschool shows — then again, the Elephant & Piggie and the Pigeon books are pretty solid for preschool books. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, well, you probably do not have young children — or maybe you’re reading them the wrong books. Both Paramount+ series are adaptations of Mo Willems‘ New York Times best-selling children’s books. The pigeon of The Pigeon has his own books, and pops up in the Elephant & Piggie ones as well. The Elephant & Piggie Show! is described by Paramount as a warm, comedic pre-K series about the hilarious …
