Sesame Street is headed for a detour, but the path forward isn’t exactly clear.. The long-running children’s show, which first introduced young audiences to Big Bird, Bert and Ernie in 1969 ...

Aboard Piney Run Lake’s pontoon, children swept the clouds away, sang of sunny days and took the waterway to Sesame Street. Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie dolls all came along for the ...

As the party rages, an oblivious Ernie responds to suggestions that Bert doesn’t ... NY - FEBRUARY 12: A feather from Big Bird is seen on the set of Sesame Street at Kaufman Astoria Studios ...

Big Bird has been helping spread public health messages for several decades, in 1972 propagating the phrase: "Don't wait, vaccinate!" The ongoing row between Sesame Street and the Republican right ...

Bert and Ernie had their own, um, private dynamic and there was the slightly out-of-it Grover. But Big Bird was always purely, simply, for the children. His innocent warmth came from inside, too.

Sesame Street also hopes to use the Big Bird Snapchat lens to raise awareness around its Yellow Feather Fund, which launched in 2016 and supplies educational materials to children in need both in ...

Sesame Street gave Henson the perfect platform to showcase Kermit, in addition to newer characters such as Oscar the Grouch, the voracious Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie and Big Bird, to a bigger ...

‘Sesame Street’: Meet the New Puppeteer Inside Big Bird. Matt Vogel, the puppeteer who took over the role of Big Bird last year, talks about being the "best version" of the iconic character he ...