Master of the Universe Ian McKellen is stopping by Sesame Street on Thursday. The show posted this preview Vine and it is several shades of delightful. I just want to snuggle them both.
Stop. Everything. It's time to witness the best gift any Monday has bestowed since the dawn of Mondays. Are you ready? Good. To celebrate the upcoming release of Catching Fire, Sesame Street has released its own Hunger Games parody called The Hungry Games, starring the Cookie Monster as YA heroine Cookieness Evereat.…
In the most recent season of Portlandia, there was a sketch about a group of hipster parents who decide to start a band with the goal of making kids' music more listenable. Naturally, complications arise because COMEDY, but the reality of the situation is much more simple. If you want to make children's music cool,…
The latest lie-turd that Star Magazine's pinched off involves Alyson Hannigan "starving herself" down to 98 pounds. Says an "insider" (a crazed and jealous Alexis Denishof fan? A bitter Buffy extra?): "Alyson has become extremely strict with her diet in recent months. Her weight has become her obsession: She exercises…
Roscoe Orman, the actor who's played Gordon on Sesame Street since 1974, was ordered by a judge to continue paying palimony to the mother of his four kids, even though the unmarried couple never had any kind of written agreement about it.
If you haven't shed enough tears today after watching Stephen Colbert's loving tribute to his late mother Lorna, why not watch this clip from a 2002 episode of Sesame Street that features James Gandolfini — who passed away yesterday in Italy
Considering that the United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000 (as of 2009) (Jesus), this is probably a much-needed resource.
According to a cover interview she just did with the U.K. magazine Fabulous, Jennifer Lawrence apparently isn't as into her myriad Jennifer Lawrence-isms as we are. Her family's keeping her feet on the ground ("My family is not the kind of family that would ever let me turn into an asshole or anything like that, so I'm …
Getting into numbers that even the Count Von Count would struggle to keep up with, the Sesame Street YouTube channel is close to surpassing one billion views, a milestone that, once crossed, will place it in an elite league with Psy ("Gangnam Style" is the most trafficked YouTube video of all time), Justin Bieber,…
Aw, would you look at that. Your boyfriend
You thought your life was complete. You were so very very wrong. Because until now, you had not seen Upside Downton Abbey, in which Muppet Carson attempts to serve tea and crumpets to Muppet Dowager Countess. Kudos to the costume designers for nailing Violet's wardrobe, especially that hat!
In this edition of Tweet Beat, Sesame Street is the cutest, Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper continue to be the cutest friends ever, the ladies of Seaside Heights are sticking together and Adam Pally doesn't know his wines.
Back in the '90s, Sesame Street writers and producers decided it was time to tackle the D word: divorce. But according to Tumblr Storyboard in partnership with Time, when Sesame Street showed little kids the segment ahead of time, they freaked out: where would Snuffy (a.k.a. Mr. Snuffleupagus, the newfound victim of…
Well, turns out our collective sigh of relief was short-lived. Though puppeteer Kevin Clash's first accuser recanted his claims one week ago, Clash officially resigned from Sesame Street today. Though it's not mentioned in Clash's official resignation, his departure coincides with new allegations from a second accuser, …
WELL, OKEY DOKEY, THEN. I mean, who knows what's true in this whole shitty puppetfuck, and whether or not any of it was any of our business (if the retraction is legit, then it most definitely wasn't). But the official story, at this point, is that Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash's accuser (who originally claimed the two…
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who's been voicing Sesame Street's immensely popular Elmo character for nearly 27 years, has taken a leave of absence from the Sesame Workshop after allegations surfaced that he had sex with a 16-year-old boy. While Clash admits that he did have a relationship with the accuser, he says, "It…
