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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An enormous bird, taller than an adult human ... Now another has popped up in Central Asia, revealing giant birds were no flukes. "Big birds were living alongside Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs ...

I had no idea!" Big Bird's vaccination announcement received a shout-out from President Joe Biden, who replied, "Good on ya, @BigBird. Getting vaccinated is the best way to keep your whole ...

Big Bird's Turkish cousin appeared in orange colors. The character appeared on "Susam Sokağı." "Meet cousin Minik Kuş! He’s from Turkey, but he's no turkey himself! He's a canary bird just ...

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.

Big Bird is actually no stranger to being catnip (pardon the pun) for political outrage. In the 2012 presidential debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney invoked the character’s name in making a ...

Nonsense. “I like PBS,” Romney said. “I love Big Bird. But I’m not going to . . . borrow money from China to pay for [it.]” Gaffe? No way. Romney’s not out to drive Big Bird off the air.

"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 ...