Florida Supercon 2014 Caroll Spinney of Sesame Street Q & A

This video is the Q & A of Caroll Spinney at Florida Supercon. www.floridasupe...
Caroll Spinney is a puppeteer, artist and animator most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.
Caroll's career has spanned 60 years. In 1955, he performed in the show Rascal Rabbit, and joined The Judy and Goggle Show in 1958 as the puppeteer of Goggle. Throughout the 1960s, he performed on Bozo's Big Top, where he played Mr. Lion, and was also a commercial artist and animator. Caroll joined Jim Henson's Puppeteer's in 1969 after several encounters with Jim Henson between over the course of the decade. Spinney joined Sesame Street for the inaugural season in 1969 as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
Spinney has performed the Big Bird and Oscar characters in Australia, China, Japan, and across Europe. As Big Bird/Oscar, he has conducted orchestras across the US and Canada, including the Boston Pops, as well as visited the White House multiple times. He has provided the characters' voices on dozens of albums. As Oscar, Spinney has written How to Be a Grouch, a Whitman Tell-A-Tale picture book. With J. Milligan, he wrote the 2003 book The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers.
Though Big Bird and Oscar are his main characters, Spinney has also performed as other characters. At one point, he created and performed Bruno the Trash Man, a full-bodied puppet representing a garbage carrier, who also carried Oscar's trash can. Spinney has also performed as Granny Bird, Big Bird's grandmother. Spinney was one of the original puppeteers of Elmo in the 1970's.
Spinney has been honored with four Daytime Emmy Awards for his portrayals on the series and two Grammy Awards for his related recordings. Two of the recordings Spinney's voice can be heard on have earned Gold Record status. For his body of work, Spinney has received both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the Library of Congress' Living Legend award in 2000. At the 2006 Daytime Emmy Awards, Spinney received the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award.
More Supercon events:
Animate Miami - October 23-25, 2015 at the Miami Airport Convention Center www.animatemiami.com
Magic City Comic Con - January 15-17, 2016 at the Miami Airport Convention Center www.magiccitycomiccon.com
Florida Supercon - July 1-4, 2016 at the Miami Beach Convention Center www.floridasupercon.com
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[@KLUNKET]

I met Caroll many many years ago at an event at my elementary school. He is a TRULY kind man. I got to be one of the kids on stage with him as he played Big Bird, then after when he got out of his costume I asked for his autograph. I had a yellow tablet (the ones the schools would hand out to the students) and he drew me a picture of Oscar the Grouch, then flipped the page and drew me a picture of Big Bird, then used the backing of the tablet and drew several more pictures and signed every one of them. I still have Caroll's artwork! I pull them out every once in a while to remember being a child, and remember how special those drawings had made me feel. Thanks Caroll!

[@shelbybraman1956]

KLUNKET I also met Carol more than once. He is an amazing guy!!! I love him and what he does! He is awesome and I love him. He is an everyday inspiration who makes us laugh and smile. He rocks and is such an amazing guy who makes kids happy and laugh!! I grew up watching Sesame Street and have loved big bird and Oscar since I first watched Sesame Street. He is amazing!

[@LoyalmoonieProductions]

RIP Caroll Spinney 1933-2019

[@eloiseockert6561]

Hi There Caroll: 1969 and the years following despite some hurdles for both of us were some of the best times of my life...thanx for Coney Island, thanx for trying to give me guidance or trying to. I wish I had listened to your advice. I didn't realize how much I lost until I moved a couple of years ago...I am going to open the center despite all the odds... It really was at times, A Magic Carpet Ride... Eloise/2014/Ellie/1969

[@eloiseockert6561]

The Center will be dedicated to Caroll Spinney and then all the actors/actresses who helped make Sesame Street an icon for youth...especially teens!

[@leannaboyle6836]

As soon as he walked onstage, he did his Big Bird voice.

[@JennieJohnson-xx9tc]

RIP Caroll Spinny

[@MattyIce61]

So, there was an episode where Big Bird started to say goodbye to Snuffy forever?

[@lillieanag6394]

Jerry Nelson was also a good singer.

[@shelbybraman1956]

I love you Caroll! We gotta get together again I miss you ❤️💙❤️

[@rachelberrythegleequeen.3221]

I wish Caroll had had more confidence in himself in regards to singing because he had a lovely voice.

[@TyrekeCorrea]

...Oh, my God.

[@TyrekeCorrea]

Carroll!

[@OakTreeIsaac]

I hate this man keeps interrupting Caroll Spinney

[@lillieanag6394]

It’s Jacobson, Eric Jacobson.

[@TyrekeCorrea]

January 13th, 2014

[@TyrekeCorrea]

Oh, Carroll, I'm sorry.

[@mesquitegirl2013]

[@TyrekeCorrea]

😭

[@TyrekeCorrea]

Carroll?

[@TyrekeCorrea]

He's...slowed...down.

[@malcolmmonster7987]

I Wish windzike the flower of Oz and Monte mary kate and ashley olsen would spend some quality time spending the day helping them out sometimes little by little got to teach them things showing them new things talk listen connected disscusion understand each other taking good care of them taking great care of them taking care of them babysitting every single day weeks helping them out sometimes little by little got to teach them things showing them new things windzike the flower of Oz and Monte mary kate and ashley olsen would spend some quality time spending the day with Caroll Spinney and the little boy so they won't be alone anymore