Today's Video Link

A couple of folks sent me this. It's the Salute to Sesame Street from the Daytime Emmy ceremony the other day…a nice eleven minute segment, though you can zip past the opening remarks if you don't have the eleven minutes.

At the end, the Muppeteers come out for bows. The gent operating Cookie Monster is, I believe, David Rudman, and it's nice to see him get on camera. It's regrettable though that Caroll Spinney is mostly hidden. Spinney has been performing Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird since Sesame Street started — the only Muppet guy of his era still filling a role he originated. Someone else, obviously, is in the Big Bird suit on the Emmy stage but that's Spinney holding Oscar, straining to be seen. He deserved a special ovation.