“Sesame Street” follows a community of adorable Muppets — including Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Bert and Ernie — living in a fictional neighborhood of New York City (although in 2019, a Manhattan ...

In 1972, early into his tenure at Sesame Street, Norman Stiles thought up a pun. The former Merv Griffin comedy writer had spent his first year penning scripts around the kids program’s strict ...