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We can remove the first show in the list to add this one. Preview: Season 13 2m 15s. Kevin Clash grew up dreaming of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson.

Today, he is the man behind Elmo, among Sesame Street's most beloved characters. Problems Playing Video? Report a Problem Closed Captioning. Before you submit an error, please consult our Troubleshooting Guide.

Your report has been successfully submitted. Thank you for helping us improve PBS Video. Michael Brown Sr. Elmo's birthday is February 3rd. Enthusiastic, friendly and cheerful, he always wants to be part of everything that goes on. However, like most preschoolers, he sometimes doesn't have the skills or knowledge to do what he wants.

But that never stops him because he has a very positive, optimistic view of himself and life. Elmo's best friends are Zoe and Abby , and also his pet goldfish Dorothy. Elmo loves eating his favorite food, wasabi. He also loves riding on his tricycle and being tickled. The first sketches of Elmo by Caroly Wilcox cited in Imagination Illustrated as , reveal that he was initially intended to have a wider face.

Elmo used as a generic monster character in the song, " We Are All Monsters. Elmo in his first named appearance from Episode The puppet that would eventually become Elmo was designed in by Caroly Wilcox.

Elmo made his earliest named appearance in Season 11 Episode , where he was first performed by Brian Muehl. In this early appearance, Elmo communicates with Maria only in mumbles. After he was established on the show, press releases for Season 12 described him as a character who communicates with sounds rather than words. Elmo was considered such a minor character, that the puppet was still used as an AM monster in inserts, and in these instances, as with most background Muppets, had rotating performers.

Hunt disliked playing Elmo and couldn't make the character work. On November 26, , after the taping of Episode that morning, [11] Hunt came into the studio's Muppet green room and literally tossed the puppet to Kevin Clash , asking him what he could get out of it.

Clash performed Elmo in remaining material for the season, and in the interim between seasons, he thought about what he could bring to the role. Clash said, "I knew that Elmo should represent love - just kissing and hugging. Soon after, Elmo started to build in popularity, as research showed that viewers were not only entertained by the character, but they were learning from him. Elmo with Rosie O'Donnell in Elmopalooza. Elmo appeared in an episode of The Torkelsons in and had occasional guest spots on The Frugal Gourmet.

In the mids, Elmo became a regular guest on The Rosie O'Donnell Show , appearing more than a dozen times between and The joke is poking fun at the debate around the use of the N-word in songs and the tweet has amassed more than , likes at the time of publishing. Interestingly, however, the original voice of Elmo was Black puppeteer Kevin Clash who voiced the character for 28 years.

Clash resigned from Sesame Street in amid allegations of sexual impropriety, which he denied and were later dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. But the real trick is finding the balance between keeping him true to who he is, without making him a stale copy of what came before.

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