It's always a sunny day on Sesame Street, but for much of the week, things were not A-OK in the land of the Muppets. On January 24, Big Bird, the show's eight-foot-tall, anthropomorphic canary ...

But it's a small world inside the costume of Sesame Street's Big Bird. This is what it's like, according to Caroll Spinney, who has performed the yellow-feathered, orange-footed character since ...

Big Bird defenders imagined a world in which a lack ... was one of the top 10 such arrangements in the toy business. It’s a sign of how seriously the company takes its licensing programs that ...

Once again, Big Bird is on the chopping block, threatened by the loss of federal funds that sustain public broadcasting stations. But the big yellow fella has been there before, and survived each ...

A woman wearing a costume of Sesame Street character Big Bird holds a sign in support of public broadcasting during the "Million Puppet March" in Washington on Nov. 3, 2012. A woman wearing a ...

Some bittersweet news this morning - Big Bird is retiring. More precisely, the voice behind the man inside Big Bird is hanging up his bright yellow feathers after nearly 50 years on "Sesame Street." ...

Who knew Sesame Street's Big Bird would play a role in Wednesday's presidential debate in Denver? About 30 minutes into the verbal contest between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt ...