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 was ...

A call from Big Bird made an impression on both the boy and puppeteer. — -- The man behind Big Bird shared an emotional story about how he brought joy to a dying fan in the final moments of his ...

The man in the feathered suit, Caroll Spinney, tells how Big Bird saved him suicide - and more stunning stories from "Sesame Street." (Left) Everett Collection, (right) Ron Asadorian Throughout his 46 ...

The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of the show’s finances against one another. Mitt Romney claimed he’d cut funding so that ...

Big Bird, the towering yellow bird with confetti feathers from Sesame Street, will eternally be 6 years old, but his character is nearly 50. The man behind Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, is 81 — and has no ...

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...