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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we enter Day 3 of election counting in the United States, the world is watching with bated breath, all of us waiting for the flood of legitimately cast mail votes to be delivered and tallied so ...

Count von Count and the NPR kids count us down: 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1! And there they are at the Tiny Desk: Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Rosita, Abby Cadabby and ...