Elmo is a Muppet The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is made by Jim Henson or his company's workshop. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark linked to the characters created by Henson on the children's television show Sesame Street Sesame Street is an American children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969, making it one of the longest running children's programs on. He is a furry red monster. He currently hosts the last full 15 minute segment on Sesame Street, Elmo's World "Elmo's World" is a segment of the children's television show Sesame Street featuring Elmo, a small, three and a half year old, bright red monster. It debuted on November 16, 1998, which is aimed at toddlers A toddler is a young child who is of the age of learning to walk, between infancy and childhood. Toddling usually begins between the ages of 12 and 18 months. During the toddler stage, the child also learns a great deal about social roles, develops motor skills, and first starts to use language. His puppeteer is Kevin Clash Kevin Jeffrey Clash is a voice actor and puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as Sesame Street Muppet Captain and co-executive producer, who uses falsetto Falsetto is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal folds, in whole or in part. Commonly cited in the context of singing, falsetto, a characteristic of phonation by both men and to produce his voice. Elmo's parents, Mae and Louis, speak with Southern American accents.
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History
Elmo is self-described as three-and-a-half years old and characteristically refers to himself in the third person Illeism is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of the more appropriate first person (e.g. "Elmo has a question" rather than, "I have a question"). Sesame Street staff writer Nancy Sans once described Elmo's origins: "There was this extra red puppet lying around and the cast would pick him up sometimes and try to create a personality, but nothing seemed to materialize."[citation needed] The puppet was performed by Caroll Spinney Caroll Edwin Spinney, sometimes credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney is an American puppeteer most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the children's television show Sesame Street in the early 1970s, Brian Muehl from 1979–1981, and the late Richard Hunt Richard Hunt was an American puppeteer and Muppet performer. He was best known for characters including Scooter, Beaker, Janice, Statler, and Sweetums from 1981–1984. Sans continues that "...one day [in 1984], Kevin Clash Kevin Jeffrey Clash is a voice actor and puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as Sesame Street Muppet Captain and co-executive producer, a talented puppeteer, raised him up and brought energy and life into Elmo and from that day forward we would all write for Elmo. Kevin's performance inspired the writers to develop Elmo's character.[2] John Tartaglia John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer, Matt Vogel, and Jim Martin have all been secondary performers for the character, providing movement for Elmo's arms and legs, particularly in green-screen shots.
Elmo on a 2009 Rose Parade The Tournament of Roses Parade, better known as the Rose Parade, is "America's New Year Celebration", a festival of flower-covered floats, marching bands, equestrians and a college football game on New Year's Day , produced by the non-profit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association floatAfter becoming a regular guest on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Elmo began touring the talk-show circuit. He has appeared on Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. Martha Stewart Living began as a quarterly magazine in 1990, published by Time Inc..and is currently published monthly. Stewart took the magazine with her and Martha Martha of Bethany is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus' resurrection of her brother, The Tony Danza Show The Tony Danza Show was a daytime talk show hosted by Tony Danza. It debuted to mixed reviews in 2004. The workday show, syndicated by Buena Vista Television, was produced live from New York City at 10 a.m. ET. Many East Coast markets carried the live feed, Rove Live Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television talk show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!,[3] and The View. Elmo and a developmental expert gave babysitting tips on the June 18, 2005 episode of Teen Kids News. He has also appeared on Emeril Live, helping Emeril Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick it up a notch!” and “BAM!” He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & make (non-alcoholic) eggnog during a Holiday Special shown in December, 2008. Kevin Clash and Aaron Neville Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts. Neville did not chart again, however, until 1989, when he collaborated with Linda Ronstadt on three consecutive duets: "Don't Know Much", " were also guests on this show. On a special episode of Oprah The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. It is currently the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, having run nationally since September 8, 1986, for over 24 seasons and nearly 5,000 called "The Faces Behind The Famous Names," Kevin Clash and Elmo appeared at the same time.[4]
The Elmo character is often used to reach children with important messages, such as fire safety Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death, injury, or property damage, alert those in a structure to the presence of a fire in the event one occurs, better enable those threatened by a fire to survive, or to reduce the damage caused by a fire. Fire safety measures.Elmo was the star of the 1999 full-length, theatrically-released motion picture Elmo in Grouchland. He also starred in the film Elmo Saves Christmas.
Elmo also appeared in a fifth season episode of The West Wing The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006. The series is set in the West Wing of the White House, the location of the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior staff, during the fictional Democratic administration of Josiah Bartlet along with his friends Zoe and Big Bird Big Bird is the main protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street which airs on PBS. Big Bird, like many of the other Sesame Street characters, is a Muppet character. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Bird" by his friends. In that episode, Elmo receives a medical checkup from Abbey Bartlet, the First Lady First Lady or First Gentleman is the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state. In the United States, it is also used for the spouse or partner of a governor or mayor (who is making a guest appearance on Sesame Street), and cheekily questions her about the validity of her medical license.
Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham Randall Harold Cunningham , usually known as Randy or Duke, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 50th Congressional District from 1991 to 2005, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.[5]
Emeril and Elmo's Healthy Start was a special featuring Elmo and Emeril Lagasse Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick it up a notch!” and “BAM!” He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & that aired on November 4, 2005 at 8 p.m. as part of the Food Network's Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest second annual "Cook With Your Kids Week". The special was produced in conjunction with Sesame Workshop's Healthy Habits for Life program.
Criticism and controversy
Some longtime fans of the series, particularly those who had begun watching it prior to Elmo's introduction, resent both him and his now-prominent status, which has caused some older characters (such as Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird Big Bird is the main protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street which airs on PBS. Big Bird, like many of the other Sesame Street characters, is a Muppet character. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Bird" by his friends, The Count, Prairie Dawn Prairie Dawn is a fictional character, a rather mature seven-year-old Muppet girl on the beloved children's television program Sesame Street. She is similar in appearance to a character from the Anything Muppets. She is famous for writing school pageants for her friends, mostly Ernie and Bert, Herry, Grover, and Cookie Monster. She also plays the, Grover Grover is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable and furry, he is a monster who almost never uses contractions when he speaks and sings, and Cookie Monster Cookie Monster is a fictional Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases: "Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Om Nom nom nom" . He often eats anything and everything, including danishes, donuts, lettuce, apples,) to see greatly-reduced roles.[6] Elmo has been referred to as the "Little Red Menace" by Sesame Street traditionalists.[7]
Some people believe that Elmo's characteristic of referring to himself and others in the third person will teach children improper English. In its FAQ Frequently asked questions, or FAQs are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies; "fack," "fax," "facts," and "F.A.Q." are commonly heard. Depending on, the Sesame Workshop responds to this accusation, stating that this behavior "mimics the behavior of many preschoolers."[8] However, Abby and Zoe, who are also in the same age group as Elmo, do not speak in the third person.
See also
References
- ^ Kingsley, Emily Perl; Stevenson, Nancy W (1981). The Sesame Street circus of opposites : featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Western Publishing. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 9780307231413. OCLC OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs". It was incorporated on July 6, 1967 as the not-for-profit Ohio College Library Center. More than 72,00 8493158.
- ^ Shon, Debora (2006-01-31). "Sesame Street will spend this weekend in Poughkeepsie". Poughkeepsie Journal. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060131/LIFE/601310301/1005.
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- ^ A Guy's Guide to Oprah: "Barbie, Marc Jacobs, Jimmy Choo, and Elmo" (June 2008)
- ^ American Music Conference
- ^ "Jumptheshark.com". http://web.archive.org/web/20071010051720/http://www.jumptheshark.com/topic/sesame-street-general-comments/1767.
- ^ "Elmo dethrones Big Bird", Kim Lyons, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jan. 11, 2006
- ^ "Why does Elmo refer to himself in the third person? Won't this teach kids improper English?". Frequently Asked Questions. Sesame Workshop. http://www.sesameworkshop.org/faq?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=faq_WAR_sesameportlets4369&_faq_WAR_sesameportlets4369_action=addquestion&_faq_WAR_sesameportlets4369_category=About%20the%20Television%20Program&_faq_WAR_sesameportlets4369_faqtype=faq&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=browsefaq_WAR_sesameportlets4369&_browsefaq_WAR_sesameportlets4369_category=About%20the%20Television%20Program#.
External links
- Elmo on Muppet Wiki, an external wiki
- Tickle Elmo
- Elmo's World
- Downloadable 15-minute interview with Elmo voice and puppeteer Kevin Clash from Wisconsin Public Television - Kevin Clash talks about how he became Elmo and how the muppet is able to affect children's lives
- Cinderelmo at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
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