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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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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 famed puppeteer who’s been playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street” since its debut in 1969 will leave the show this week. On Thursday, Caroll Spinney, 84, will lend his ...

Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby, of Sesame Street, team up to tackle The New Yorker’s cartoon-caption contest. Yeah, and me, Cookie Monster. Hi, I'm Big Bird. And I'm Abby Cadabby.

“I’m a very nervous bird,” the feathered giant said. “I nearly laid an egg on Sesame Street.” Big Bird. Since that very first episode of “Sesame Street” in 1969, 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 ...

Big Bird has found himself in the middle of the 2012 election, but it turns out the “Sesame Street” star is a registered Democrat. Well – the human being behind Big Bird is, anyway.

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 ...