(NEXSTAR) – Aside from Big Bird or Guy Smiley, Cookie Monster is probably the most aptly named character on Sesame Street. If indeed “Cookie Monster” were his actual name. First, some history: The ...

If you watched "Sesame Street" as a child and have since labored under the belief that the voracious blue character Cookie Monster was always named "Cookie," you may have to rethink your assumption.

It'd be wrong to say that the cast of Sesame Street just discovered the internet. As it is, the show's characters have dozens of games and mobile apps, with a large video archive that goes at least as ...

When you watch Cookie Monster on Sesame Street merrily devouring cookie after cookie, it looks utterly irresistible. That mess of crumbs, that grab of sweet dough, it all feels like pure childhood joy ...

THE nation is beset by deficit, depression and doubt about its ability to live up to its potential, and what is the Republican Party going to do? It is going to collar and cuff Big Bird and the Cookie ...

Life, liberty and the pursuit of cookies — or maybe just that last part. It’s the tenet by which Cookie Monster has lived his puppet life for more than 50 years. The lovable cookie lover took up ...

“C” is for Cookie – Cookie Monster that is! That’s right, Cookie Monster's birthday is on Wednesday, November 2. Hes another year older by still learning! Here are a few things you should definitely ...

1. Cookie Monster is left-handed! Sesame Street says the puppeteers use their right hands for the mouths. 2. Cookie Monster has five fingers on each hand (probably to eat more cookies). All the others ...

Something must be wrong in the land of Muppets. First PBS announced that "Sesame Street" would kick off its 36th season this week with a multiyear story arc about healthy habits. No problem there; ...

A “puppet wrangler” has revealed how she bakes cookies for Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster, but they are not the warm, buttery treat you would expect. Lara MacLean has worked over three decades for the ...

One of the most endearing and memorable of Sesame Street's Muppet characters has experienced a bit of an epiphany regarding his eating habits in recent years as the lovable, blue-furred Cookie Monster ...