The recent run of amazing Sesame Street clips has dried up, so here's the next best thing: Rap demigods Run DMC on 1980s teach-kids-about-books TV show, Reading Rainbow.

"Oh yes, indeed I like to read / 'cause reading's fun
Not only me (I'm DMC) / but also Run"

Wasn't it great when it wasn't only Kanye West who was brave enough to set a positive example rap fans?

Run DMC on Reading Rainbow

Labels: Music, Run DMC, sesame street, video

Now, this is simply not on.

While every other guest star on Sesame Street uses their performance to spread good will, basic maths, triangle recognition and, er, footwear to the masses, LL Cool J goes and spoils it all with needless profanity.



All Elmo wanted him to do was add one and one together.

Oh, wait...

Watch the clip on Youtube (youtube)

Labels: muppets, sesame street, TV

You know, that muppet blog idea I had last week is seeming better and better as the Sesame Street posts stack up...

This week, Neil "Doogie Howser MD" Patrick Harris pops up on the puppet show playing a singing, dancing shoe fairy. (Yes, you read that right.)

The clip's on Youtube (youtube) - but embedding has been disabled, so you'll actually have to click on a link to watch it. The horror.

For those of you who can't bear to leave the site (we understand), here's an equally brilliant clip of Harris on US chat show Regis and Kelly:

Labels: muppets, sesame street, TV, video

I'm beginning to think I should start a separate Muppet blog, but for now here is the latest instalment of "things that become better with fuzzy puppets in them".

This week, Feist does 1-2-3-4 on Sesame Street. It's so appropriate, you begin to wonder whether she wrote the song specifically to meet Big Bird.

Feist - 1-2-3-4

Labels: feist, muppets, Music, sesame street, video

What is it with muppet mash-ups at the minute? After last week's unecessarily censored Sesame Street, here's Bert and Ernie crunking it up, gangsta rap-stylee.

Bert and Ernie - Hip-Hoppotamus and Rhymenocerous


The soundtrack is Ante Up by MOP, fact fans.

Labels: humour, muppets, sesame street, TV, video

I can't think of anything in advance of this video that wouldn't dilute and ultimately spoil the comedy. Except that last sentence, of course.

And that one.

Jimmy Kimmel - Unnecessary Censorship on Sesame Street

Labels: humour, sesame street, TV

Why is it that you can't see Sesame Street on UK television any more? How will future generations cope with the real world if they haven't been taught how to count by a large yellow bird and a man who lives in a bin?

Also, Sesame Street introduces children to future life-skills such as sending back cold soup in a restaurant, sharing an apartment with a man shaped like a banana, and distracting vampires by encouraging them to count the number of flowers in a vase (works every time, that one).

Most importantly of all, Sesame Street features some of the funkiest goddamn music in the history of the planet. Witness below Stevie Wonder's appearance on the show from the mid-70s (episode 514, according to Youtube). You just wouldn't get this on Balamory.

Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Sesame Street live)


Stevie teaches Grover to sing


Stevie Wonder - Sesame Street jam

Labels: Music, sesame street, stevie wonder, TV

In this clip of Sesame Street one of the performers is a lifeless puppet with no soul. The other is Telly Monster.

The song is, however, brilliant.



PS: This wikipedia list of Sesame Street characters is one of the most diverting six minutes available on the internet. (Except for the porn, of course)

PPS OH MY GOD!!!! I have just discovered an entire Muppet Wikipedia!
I am now going to change the entry for "ma nah ma nah" so that it simply says:
Ma nah Ma Na (n.)
Doo Doo de-doooo doo

Labels: humour, james blunt, sesame street, video