“Ernie! You are annoying me!” / “Ladies…”

December 12, 2019 9:02 PM

For Vanity Fair, “Sesame Street Characters Do Impressions of Each Other” (Previously they read movie quotes, Elmo described his day, and Big Bird took a lie detector test.)
For The New Yorker, “Sesame Street Enters The New Yorker’s Cartoon-Caption Contest”
posted by Going To Maine (6 comments total)

Wow, that was fantastic. What joy.

I never heard of Abby before but she was great.
posted by dobbs at 10:56 PM on December 12, 2019

These are delightful and made my morning but the real story here is that the New Yorker video uses the same comedy-transition drum fill as the Claire Makes videos from Bon Appetit. Is there a Conde Nast house drummer?
posted by range at 4:59 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

Omg. Cookie Monster's finger representing Bert's eyebrows. I loled. And everyone doing each others laughs was the best. Especially Ernie's.
posted by shmurley at 6:58 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

I wasn't in love with the first impressions, but Ernie was spot-on. "I am being annoying!"
posted by Mchelly at 10:53 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

I've mostly come to terms with the fact that none of them (except Abby) have their original voices, and for most of them it's only jarring a little. But Big Bird doesn't sound right at all. Sigh.
posted by Mchelly at 10:56 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I watch a lot of sesame street now I have kids and to me Big Bird's voice is whiny. I watched some old videos with Carroll Spinney and it definitely didn't have that quality when he was still doing it.

The rest are different but not annoyingly so.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 11:42 AM on December 14, 2019 [1 favorite]