--- title: Aziz Ansari on Sesame Street: Word of the Day Ridiculous With Grover description: Silliness is very educational. canonical: https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-21T16:31:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:56.926Z og:title: Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on Sesame Street og:description: Silliness is very educational. og:url: https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on Sesame Street twitter:description: Silliness is very educational. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on _Sesame Street_ by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 21, 2014 4:31 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 21, 2014 4:31 PM CUT Over the years, stars like [Benedict Cumberbatch](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/04/stop-the-internet-benedict-cumberbatch-stopped-by-sesame-street/ "undefined"), [Katy Perry](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/23/katy-perry-too-revealing-for-sesame-street/ "undefined") and [Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/11/sonia-sotomayor-on-sesame-street-princess-is-not-a-career/ "undefined") have all stopped by _Sesame Street_ to help educate the children who tune in to the [PBS mainstay](http://time.com/3404693/pbs-new-shows/ "undefined"), but none of the celebrities have been as flat out _ridiculous_ as Aziz Ansari. The “cute and fuzzy” _Parks and Recreation_ star stopped by _Sesame Street_ to help Grover announce the Word of the Day. While Ansari tries to figure out the word, Grover wants him to do all sorts of incredibly silly things, like wear a chicken suit and a stovepipe hat so bright even _The Cat in the Hat_ would think twice. Grover even proposes that they announce the word while dangling upside down, but [don’t let’s be silly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcFJLl6JZs "undefined"). What’s the word of the day? Watch the video to find out. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/"},"headline":"Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on Sesame Street","datePublished":"2014-10-21T16:31:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:56.926Z","description":"Silliness is very educational.","url":"https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Education","kids","Videos","Sesame Street","aziz ansari"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3528685/aziz-ansari-sesame-street-grover/","name":"Watch Aziz Ansari Get Ridiculous With Grover on Sesame Street"}}]}] ```