The one constant through five decades was Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind two of the show’s signature characters: Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird.
Spinney told the Times that playing Big Bird for 50 years was “one of the most joyous things of my life.”
(Big Bird was originally conceived, per Spinney in a new interview with The New York Times, as “a funny, dumb country yokel.”)
Later this week, Spinney will record his voice voices for Oscar and Big Bird.
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