Sesame Street — home of Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Elmo — rarely incites controversy. But then the website of the popular children's education show uploaded a curious feature called "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration."
Earlier this afternoon the Sesame Street Twitter account sent out a mysterious message, which led to a series of tweets that ended up being an adorable homage to one of the franchise's classic books.
The Sesame Street producers were left in quite the pickle when one of their biggest puppeteers, Kevin Clash, resigned, but apparently his Elmo will be a part of the show for the next two years.
Amidst a new wave of sexual-abuse allegations, Kevin Clash, the man who voices and operates the Elmo puppet, abruptly resigned from Sesame Street late Tuesday morning
The dragging of Elmo's name into the mud has begun again. With a lot less to lose than Kevin Clash (aka the voice of Elmo), the man behind Clash's underage sex allegations, Sheldon Stephens, apparently won't take the $125,000 settlement he already accepted, and is now sticking by his original story: that Clash had sex with him when he was 16.
The man who accused Kevin Clash, the beloved voice of Sesame Street's Elmo, of having sex with him while he was still underage has gone back on his story. It's safe to like Elmo again!
It isn't often that you get TMZ and Sesame Street in the same story, but thanks to a scoop from the trashy celebrity gossip site Sesame Street executives are now explaining why the man behind the voice of their most popular puppet might have had a relationship with an underage boy.
After Romney said he'd get rid of Big Bird, the Obama campaign simply has not let go of it, and Jon Stewart had some advice last night on The Daily Show: it's time to let it go, guys.
Even Big Bird has to make some money. The Sesame Workshop's 990 form for the 2010 tax year reveals that Caroll Spinney, the man behind the newsworthy avian creature and other Muppets, including Oscar the Grouch, made $314,072.
President Obama embraces the Big Bird meme, Rand Paul attacks Democrats on foreign aid, and Crossroads GPS puts money in five Senate races.
After Mitt Romney said he'd end Sesame Street in last week's debate, conservatives started railing on the Public Broadcasting Network. Why do they hate it so much? Jon Stewart checked it out last night on The Daily Show.
Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers scored the week's biggest exclusive by getting Big Bird to to stay up way past his usual bed time to comment on being the center of attention in Wednesday night's debate.
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