A woman wearing a costume of Sesame Street character Big Bird holds a sign in support of public broadcasting during the "Million Puppet March" in Washington on Nov. 3, 2012. A woman wearing a ...

Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the ...

As a kid, you likely spent a lot of time learning your ABCs from characters like Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo ... I mean, he took the puppet theater and decided, I'm gonna get rid of that ...

Secondly, we brought Big Bird of Sesame Street fame to Capitol Hill and gave members of Congress photo opportunities galore to send back to their local newspapers, which made for extremely ...