--- description: Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird read #WhenIWasAKid tweets title: The Sesame Street Stars Read Tweets with Jimmy Fallon and It Was Adorable image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48722562a04220e3/6986a2f51eebf75914372981/455280294.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The _Sesame Street_ Stars Read Tweets with Jimmy Fallon and It Was Adorable  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Sep 12, 2014 11:50 AM CUT  (l-r) Sesame Street characters Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Murray Monster, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Abby and Grover post with host Jimmy Fallon on September 11, 2014 (l-r) Sesame Street characters Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Murray Monster, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Abby and Grover post with host Jimmy Fallon on September 11, 2014NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Sep 12, 2014 11:50 AM CUT The cast of _Sesame Street_ visited Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night to read #WhenIWasAKid tweets that share sweet, hilarious and adorable things that kids did as a kid. Cookie Monster, for example, read this tweet: > [](https://twitter.com/BERNALorNOTHING/status/509801153786564609) Too cute. Watch the whole video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sch4cgecTWA&list=UU8-Th83bH%5FthdKZDJCrn88g "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3338334/sesame-street-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3338334/sesame-street-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"The Sesame Street Stars Read Tweets with Jimmy Fallon and It Was Adorable","datePublished":"2014-09-12T11:50:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:09:07.087Z","description":"Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird read #WhenIWasAKid tweets","url":"https://time.com/3338334/sesame-street-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48722562a04220e3/6986a2f51eebf75914372981/455280294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48722562a04220e3/6986a2f51eebf75914372981/455280294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 1","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 1","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3338334/sesame-street-jimmy-fallon/","name":"The Sesame Street Stars Read Tweets with Jimmy Fallon and It Was Adorable"}}]}] ```