National Review Column Links Sesame Street to Benghazi
Mitt Romney has received some backlash for his comments about cutting government funding for PBS, even though he likes Big Bird.
PBS, Sesame Workshop Blast Romney Over Big Bird Comments: Sesame Street Won't Go Away
In its official statement following last night's presidential debate, Sesame Workshop responded to Mitt Romney's remark that he "likes Big Bird" but will cut PBS funding anyway by reiterating its policy as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization not to comment on campaigns, quipping that at least "we can all agree that…
On Sesame Street, a Boardwalk Empire Spoof, You Know, for Kids
Sesame Street continues its string of kid-oriented spoofs of adult-themed dramas with a fowl send-up of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Sesame Street Characters Have Been Terrorizing TV Personalities All Day
So it seems that in order to promote their 43rd season, the PR people over at Sesame Street have been recklessly booking all of their cracked-out muppets on (for the most part) already intolerable television shows. Consequently, America's best and brightest TV personalities were forced to interact with furry,…
Room For One More? The Sesame Street Send-Up of "Call Me Maybe" Starring Cookie Rae Monster
As anyone who has been online for a minute knows, a meme isn't truly a meme until Sesame Street spoofs it.
A Jew-Hating Elmo In Central Park
Here is a picture of a man in an Elmo suit being carted away from Central Park Zoo in an ambulance yesterday. Visitors complained that he'd been wandering the park, screaming obscene anti-semitic rants.
Sesame Street Movie is Happening; If You Can Read This Sentence, You Are Too Old to Be Excited
The Hollywood Reporter announced Tuesday that a Sesame Street movie is in the works, courtesy of 20th Century Fox.
Mitt Romney's Plan to Whore Out Big Bird
Better fire some more liberal opera show hosts and soon, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, because President Romney's got plans for you. Oh, he's got plans alright:
Sesame Street Hacked With XXX Content
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this Sesame Street News Flash! The Sesame Street YouTube channel is currently down after it fell victim on Sunday to a nefarious hacking entity that removed all of its content, then reprogrammed the page with hardcore porn.
Sesame Street to Debut Impoverished Muppet
The recession has come to Sesame Street, as the show plans to introduce us to a new Muppet named Lily, a little girl whose family struggles to afford food.
Muppet Slavedriver Named Head of NPR
You can't spell "NPR" without "PR," as in "disaster," as in what that particular media organization had more than its share of in 2011. Former CEO Vivian Schiller resigned last March in the wake of the Juan Williams firing and James O'Keefe undercover video fiascos. Now that position has been filled by Gary Knell, a …
Even Sesame Street Wants to Poke Fun at Glee
The season opener of Glee might have been a vast improvement over season two, but even childhood touchstone Sesame Street did a light parody of the show. Puppets can be so cruel.
Congress Considers Murdering Big Bird and Snuffleupagus
Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint have introduced a bill to cut that program that they always want to cut: subsidies for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, overlord of PBS and NPR. We already know why Republicans want to cut NPR funding so badly, because the liberal snob station fired a reporter last…
Oscar The Grouch's Reads His Oscar Picks
Here's a cute video of Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch and his thoughts on the Oscars. They go something like this: "Best Actor, Colin Filth—with a name that how can he lose?"
Top Chef: The Cookie Monster Crumbles
Top Chef is often full of monsters, but they're usually egotistical chefs, screaming cohosts, and otherwise unruly contestants. Last night the monsters were the lovable ones from Sesame Street. We have never been so tickled by Elmo.
Cookie Monster Challenges the All Stars on Top Chef
Sesame Street's Elmo, Telly, and Cookie Monster put the All Stars's cookie-making skills to the test last night. Watch resident expert Cookie Monster and friends give the most informed and adorable critiques of any guest judges this season.
Kanye West's "Monster" Video — This Time, Featuring Actual Monsters
After watching Kanye's new video for his latest single "Monster," did you find yourself pining for more, err, monsters? Thank goodness for the internet, who has rescued us once again with this mash-up featuring Sesame Street's best monsters.
The Simpsons Gives Katy Perry's Boobs a Chance to Act with Puppets
After toddlers were devastated by the news that Katy Perry and her ample bosom wouldn't air as part of Sesame Street, The Simpsons thankfully jumped in with a muppet bailout. Check out the corny, christmasey goodness inside.
Cookie Monster Wants to Host Saturday Night Live
Emboldened, one imagines, by the successful internet campaign to have actress Betty White host Saturday Night Live, famous cookie monster Cookie Monster has started his own SNL-hosting campaign with this audition tape, complete with a cookie Lady Gaga.
Watch Cookie Monster's Saturday Night Live Audition Tape
Here's the latest release from Sesame Street's YouTube channel—a tape of Cookie Monster auditioning to be a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Who knew that he had a passion beyond cookies?
