Ahead of the 15-episode first season, Big Bird called USA TODAY from his nest on Sesame Street to talk about the podcast, life in lockdown and more. Big Bird: It's pretty good! I woke up very ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indeed, Big Bird — that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old — has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969. Now, as it marks its 40th ...

"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 ...

The widespread attention surrounding Big Bird since Wednesday night’s debate is proof that the newly politicized “Sesame Street” character has bipartisan appeal, generating a connection in ...

Caroll Spinney, who puppeteered and voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, is retiring from "Sesame Street" after 50 years. He has been part of the show since its inception in 1969. (He even met ...

LIMBONG: Spinney retired in 2018, but Big Bird and Oscar are still on the show, teaching kids kindness and grumpiness and carrying on the heart that Caroll Spinney brought to "Sesame Street." ...

The man who has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since "Sesame Street" debuted in 1969 is retiring this week, Sesame Workshop said Wednesday in a news release. Caroll Spinney, 84, will perform ...

Along with Big Bird, Caroll Spinney also voiced Oscar the Grouch when he joined the show in 1969 Sesame Street has lost one of its original residents. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big ...

“Caroll Spinney’s contributions to Sesame Street are countless. He not only gave us Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, he gave so much of himself as well,” Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz ...

“My job is to carry on where Caroll left off,” says ... But, of course, on Sesame Street, Big Bird is the big game, arguably the show’s most iconic character. Landing the part has made ...