Caroll Spinney, the longtime "Sesame Street" puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died Sunday at 85. He died at his Connecticut home "after living with dystonia for some time ...

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 ...

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 episode's ...

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.

Caroll Spinney, the big-hearted Muppeteer who climbed inside a claustrophobic feathered costume to play the beloved 'Sesame Street' character Big Bird for almost a half-century, has died.

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 ...

Caroll Spinney, who puppeteered and voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, is retiring from "Sesame Street" after 50 years. He has been part of the show since its inception in 1969. (He even met ...

"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 ...

Sesame Street is headed for a detour, but the path forward isn’t exactly clear. The long-running children’s show, which first introduced young audiences to Big Bird, Bert and Ernie in 1969 ...