Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cast members of Sesame Street posing on the set with some of the puppet characters, 1969. Left to right: Will Lee, Matt Robinson, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The producers of “Sesame Street” want you to know that Bert and Ernie are not, in fact, gay. Sesame Workshop tweeted Tuesday the characters have many human traits but “remain puppets, ...

LONDON — A longtime writer for the hit children’s show “Sesame Street” has confirmed the popular characters Bert and Ernie were a same-sex couple. Mark Saltzman told Queerty the famous roommates were ...

“I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were,” Saltzman said during an interview with the website Queerty. “So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, ...

After much back and forth, Sesame Street fans finally have an answer: Bert and Ernie are gay… if you want them to be. In The Hollywood Reporter’s in-depth piece on Sesame Street‘s 50th anniversary, ...

Former "Sesame Street" writer Mark Saltzman caused an internet stir this week when he revealed to the LGBTQ website Queerty that he imagined Bert and Ernie as a "loving couple" when writing sketches ...

Sesame Street was the talk of SDCC this year, as NECA revealed that they have the license to make action figures in their Ultimates line from the iconic show. The first two of those figures, Bert and ...

Comedian Ramy Youssef had a simple response to conservatives melting down over his Sesame Street appearance — take it up with ...