This molded plastic Ernie finger puppet is one of a set of licensed Sesame Street toys made in the 1980s to capitalize on the popularity of the children’s television series, especially its Muppet ...

When John Mulaney accepted the Innovation Award at IndieWire Honors for his six-part Netflix talk show “Everybody’s in L.A.,” he opted to pay tribute to one of the great television innovators of the ...

Sure, Bert and Ernie are puppets. But three decades of rooming together have only encouraged speculation that they're gay. And since they reside on a national institution like Sesame Street, they've ...

Sesame Street‘s Bert and Ernie have been living together for 40 years. And now, an online petition demanding that Sesame Street allow Bert and Ernie to wed is circulating. As of this posting it has ...

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - After a former "Sesame Street" writer said the characters Bert and Ernie were a couple, Sesame Workshop issued a statement on Twitter denying the claim. "As we have always ...

Oct. 11, 2001 -- -- If you think any Muppet would have anything to do with terrorist Osama bin Laden, you'd better have your hollow felt head examined. Yet anti-American demonstrators protesting in ...

Bert and Ernie are still just roommates. In a statement, Sesame Workshop was prompted to address the famous puppets' relationship after a former writer for "Sesame Street" said his own relationship ...