It's R.I.P. to Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer behind Sesame Street's resident number expert Count von Count. The Count loved all numbers, but 34,969 in particular. Why? BBC radio's More or Less team was ...

In 1972, early into his tenure at Sesame Street, Norman Stiles thought up a pun. The former Merv Griffin comedy writer had spent his first year penning scripts around the kids program’s strict ...

Move over, Psy! "Sesame Street" has topped 1 billion views on YouTube, as well. The long-running kids' education show is the first nonprofit to hit this mark. And who better to celebrate this ...

Jerry Nelson, who has died aged 78, was one of the principal puppeteers for Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, and created the number-crunching vampire and Dracula lookalike, Count von Count. Nelson's ...

PROVO – The loveable counting vampire Count Von Count will be joining a cadre of Sesame Street Muppets and Broadway star Santino Fontana as they accompany the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at ...

Whatever you consider Sesame Street’s Count, man or monster, he’s got a simple mission: to count things. It is his drive, his base need, the source of his delightful full name: Count Von Count. Being ...