5 Things We Learned From the New ‘Sesame Street’ Documentary
“I don’t know if ‘Sesame Street’ would still be here if the muppets weren’t part of it from the beginning,” says David Kamp in ABC’s “50 Years of Sunny Days”
Andrea Towers | April 26, 2021 @ 11:07 PM
ABC’s new “Sesame Street” documentary “50 Years of Sunny Days” opened up the world of Jim Henson’s muppets in a never-before-seen way. Produced by TIME Studios, the Monday night special took viewers through many of the show’s iconic moments, such as original Hooper store owner Jim Hooper’s death in 1982 and the introduction of characters with autism and AIDS. And everyone from “Sesame Street” executives to former cast members to celebrities like John Oliver, Questlove, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, W. Kamau Bell, Gloria Estefan, and more shared their own experiences growing up on what they favorably referred to as “The Street.”