NEW YORK - Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street! That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the ...

"Playing Big Bird is one of the most joyous things of my life," he said. After 50 years of starring as the iconic and lovable Big Bird, Caroll Spinney is hanging up his yellow suit and retiring ...

Caroll Spinney‘s time as Big Bird is about to come to an end. For almost 50 years, Spinney has played and voiced the lovable yellow bird on Sesame Street (and his efforts were documented in the ...

After sizing up a beach and a swamp for his new habitat, Big Bird chooses a rain forest. But then he comes to his senses with a musical number. "Sesame Street is my habitat!" he sings.

Follow that bird... to Snapchat. Big Bird celebrated his 6th birthday (for the 47th time) on March 20, and to mark the big day, Sesame Street has collaborated with Snapchat to create a lens ...

Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Sesame Street‘s Big Bird as well as Oscar the Grouch character since the iconic children’s show’s premiere episode in 1969, is retiring. Producer ...

The post Remembering Sesame Street’s Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Caroll Spinney may not be a household name. But ask any child or ...

Big Bird is known to many as the yellow-colored, loveable friend that children have watched on "Sesame Street" for decades. In February 2021, a tweet about the colors of Big Bird's extended family ...

Caroll Spinney, the "Sesame Street" puppeteer behind legendary characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has died, Sesame Workshop said Sunday. He was 85. Spinney had been living with dystonia ...

Caroll Spinney, the longtime "Sesame Street" puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died Sunday at 85. He died at his Connecticut home "after living with dystonia for some time ...

Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch Courtesy Everett Collection Ever since it premiered in 1969, “Sesame Street” has been dispensing wisdom to audiences of all ages. Some of it is ...

But, of course, on Sesame Street, Big Bird is the big game, arguably the show’s most iconic character. Landing the part has made Vogel, who later married the girlfriend who showed him the ...