For your consideration: Big Birdman.
Perhaps the greatest press that Oscar-nominated Birdman could get before Sunday’s Academy Awards is this reboot by Mashable and Sesame Street — which has essentially become Saturday Night Live for the juice box drinking demographic and their parents.
In the video, Caroll Spinney, the man who has voiced Big Bird for 45 years, is haunted by the feathered puppet.
How did we get here? How did we get to Sesame Street?
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