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 ...

Tweets followed. "I worked with Big Bird. I served with Big Bird. You, sir, are no Big Bird," The Lance Arthur, @thelancearthur, of San Francisco tweeted. "Why is there no Muppet-vision way to ...

Big Bird watched with approval, and the letter Q stood proudly behind him, anonymous no longer. On the screen flickered images of traitors to the cause. Monsters who had insisted that a sunny day ...

Big Bird defenders imagined a world in which a lack of federal money would put Big Bird The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of ...

NEW YORK – Big Bird is once again at the center of uninvited ... two-sentence statement. "We have approved no campaign ads and, as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken ...

A Reddit thread hosted by the man behind “Sesame Street”’s Big Bird took a surprisingly heartbreaking turn when he revealed details of an interaction he once had with a dying boy.

The man behind Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, is 81 — and has no plans to step out of the suit any time soon. "I see no reason to quit," Spinney tells NPR's Scott Simon. "I can't imagine walking away ...

Throughout his 46 years playing Big Bird on “Sesame Street,” Caroll Spinney has always stood apart from the show’s other puppeteers. For one thing, the full-body costume means he can’t ...