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Bert hosting a convention of the National Association of W Lovers meeting

Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. W Lovers, Sesame Street, scarecroe. ... W Lovers, Sesame Street, scarecroe. ... Alice, a fictional character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters, and the company created by Jim Henson. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States, with some member stations available by cable in Canada. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...


Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer. Richard Frank Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), better known as Frank Oz, is an English film director, actor and puppeteer. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eric Jacobson is a puppeteer and Muppet performer who has performed some of Frank Ozs Muppet characters since 2001. ...


He and his friend and roommate Ernie form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Bert acting the world-weary foil to Ernie's naïve trouble-maker. A characteristic physical feature of Bert is his unibrow. Ernie, in a skit. ... The artist Frida Kahlo often portrayed herself with an exaggerated unibrow. ...

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Characteristics

Bert, though intelligent, is also grumpy, boring, easily frustrated and yellow. He enjoys activities such as paper clip and bottle cap collecting, cooking oatmeal and watching pigeon. In one sketch, Bert reads a book called "Boring Stories" and chuckles, "Boy, these Boring Stories are really exciting!" In the book Sesame Street Unpaved, Frank Oz says, "I was never really happy with Bert's character until about a year in, when I realized... that he was a very boring character, and I'd use that weakness as a strength for him." Oatmeal is a product made by processing oats. ... Pigeon redirects here. ... Sesame Street Unpaved was a nationwide tour of ten United States colleges to mark the thirtieth anniversary of childrens television show Sesame Street. ...


Bert has a pet pigeon named Bernice, and he created a dance called "Doin' the Pigeon". Bert serves as President of the National Association of W Lovers, a club dedicated to the letter W. Two conventions held by the W Lovers have been shown on the show. Bert has two pet goldfish named Lyle and Talbot, a reference to the actor Lyle Talbot. A club is generally an association of people united by a common interest or goal, as opposed to any natural ties of kinship. ... Look up W, w in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Trinomial name Carassius auratus auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) For the baked snack crackers, please see Goldfish (snack). ... Lyle Talbot as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 Batman and Robin serial. ...


A typical "Bert and Ernie" skit has Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert attempting to talk him out of it, ending with Bert completely losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea. Ernie and his rubber duckie with Bert in Sesame Street Bert and Ernie are two Muppets on the long-running PBS childrens television show Sesame Street. ...

Ernie and his rubber duckie with Bert in Sesame Street
Ernie and his rubber duckie with Bert in Sesame Street

Bert has a twin brother, Bart, a nephew, Brad, and an Aunt Matilda. Brad (presumed to be played by Richard Hunt) had a voice like Beaker, but slightly deeper, and while he still made baby-like noises, he was able to talk. Ernie brought a toy shark with him in one skit; Brad was scared by it, not realising it was a toy. Bart looks exactly like Bert—Ernie once mistook Bart for Bert—but Bart wears a suit and fedora and is a salesman ("Bart's the name and selling's my game!"). Bert's Aunt Matilda is never shown, but is often talked about, usually concerning Bert buying presents for her for numerous reasons. Image File history File linksMetadata Bert_and_Ernie. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Bert_and_Ernie. ... Ernie, in a skit. ... The quintessential yellow rubber duck Some variations on the standard rubber duck. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... Richard Hunt (August 16, 1951 - January 7, 1992) was an American puppeteer best known for his association with The Muppets. ... Dr. Bunsen Honeydew w/ Gorilla Detector Beaker Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a fictional character from The Muppet Show, performed by Dave Goelz. ...


The age of Bert and Ernie is regularly discussed on forums. Nothing official has ever been said, but most consider the duo adults, as they do not appear to be highly dependent on others. Helping suggestions of the characters being young is a comment by Sesame Street Live performer Taylor Morgan. Morgan said to the Macon Telegraph that "I just kind of try to think like a 6-year-old or 7-year-old, because that's how old Bert is." [1]
Sesame Street Live is the live touring show based on the childrens television show Sesame Street. ... The Telegraph is a McClatchy newspaper in Macon, Georgia, United States, and is the primary print news organ in Middle Georgia. ...


Parody

Ernie and Bert share an apartment in the basement of 123 Sesame Street. Although they sleep in separate beds but still in the same room, this has led to the occasional suggestion that they are gay lovers. Sesame Workshop, the corporation that owns the show and the characters, denies this and is occasionally compelled to point out that Bert and Ernie are made from cloth and other materials, and have no sexuality whatsoever. Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Childrens Television Workshop (or CTW), is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational childrens programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world (including PBS in the United States), as well as Noggin. ...


Despite this, some continue to insist that the relationship between Bert and Ernie are more than "just friends." A number of individuals have used this suggestion as fodder in popular culture parodies, including:

  • Family Guy — Bert and Ernie were featured as gay lovers in the episode "Mind over Murder," as part of a parody called "Homicide: Life on Sesame Street" (which also satirized Homicide: Life on the Street). Bert—a gruff, foul-mouthed, hard-drinking detective—is called at 3 a.m. to the scene of a homicide in front of Hooper's Store. He scolds Ernie for eating cookies in bed (a parody of a classic skit).
  • Mad TV — The fourth episode of season 12 of Mad TV that aired on November 4, 2006 had a parody of Sesame Street that depicted Bert as an internet predator on a Myspace parody website called Myplace.
  • In Germany the TV comedy show "Freitag Nacht News" featured a series of sketches with "Bernie und Ert" as two puppets in leather gear entering a sex club. These episodes were highly popular and are still a sought item for filesharers. German comic artist OL made several parodies about Ernie and Bert as gay workmen from Poland.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch which comments on and parodies current events. ... Chevy Chase (born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ... Coming out of the closet (very often shortened to coming out in winking reference to the public introduction of debutantes) describes the voluntary public announcement of ones (often homosexual or bisexual) sexual orientation or gender identity. ... Avenue Q is a great showBroadway musical, which was originally conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. ... Rod is a puppet-played character from the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Avenue Q. He was originally played by puppeteer John Tartaglia, but is currently played by Barrett Foa. ... The expression being in the closet has been used to describe keeping secret ones sexual behavior or orientation, most commonly homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender and transsexual people, paedophiles, and pederasts. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the suburb of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... Mind Over Murder is an episode of Family Guy from Season One. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Mr. ... MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, Mad. ... The end zone is a term in both Canadian football and American football. ... City San Francisco, California Other nicknames Niners, The Red And Gold, Bay Bombers Team colors Cardinal red, metallic gold and black Head Coach Mike Nolan Owner Denise DeBartolo York and John York General manager Lal Heneghan Mascot Sourdough Sam League/Conference affiliations All-America Football Conference (1946-1949) Western Division... Defensive back (DB) is a player in American football whose role is primarily pass coverage; that is, the defensive back will stay near a receiver and try to deflect or intercept any passes thrown to him. ... Merton Hanks (born March 12, 1968) is an American and former NFL safety. ...

Bert is Evil Website

A humor website "Bert is Evil" hosted digitally manipulated images and satiric articles as "evidence" of Bert being evil. The site depicted the Muppet consorting with Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan and present at the Hindenburg disaster. Bert is Evil is the name of a heavily mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American childrens television program Sesame Street. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The Hindenburg redirects here. ...


The site drew worldwide attention in 2001 when a photo of a Bangladeshi street protest was distributed by the Reuters news agency; the photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with Osama bin Laden, an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a poster shop in Dhaka.[2] Although the Bert-with-Osama image never appeared on "Bert is Evil," owner Dino Ignacio took the site off-line anyway. Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pron. ... Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bengali: Đhaka; IPA: ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District. ... Dino Ignacio, a Filipino artist and designer, is known for his Bert is Evil! site, defunct, but mirrored here. ...


The "Bert is Evil" site inspired other humor websites, such as Bert goes places[3] which shows pictures taken of Bert with all kinds of famous landmarks and which features a letter [4] from Bert to the above mentioned Rod. Rod is a puppet-played character from the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Avenue Q. He was originally played by puppeteer John Tartaglia, but is currently played by Barrett Foa. ...


The podcast Infected by Martin Sargent is currently showing the aftermath of the Bert is Evil fad with Martin Sargent playing Bert in a mock-interview. Two parts have been shown so far of the Evil Bert in two recent episodes of Infected. The interview ends with Bert demanding more booze from a woman in a maid outfit. An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... Infected is a monthly podcast hosted by Martin Sargent. ... Martin Sargent, circa 2001 Martin Sargent (born August 18, 1975) is a former American television personality. ...


Discography

As the duo often sing in their skits, several albums were released containing studio-recorded versions of their songs. Bert's best-known song is Doin' the Pigeon. Additionally, he and Ernie both had their own video, The Best of Ernie and Bert, and their own album, Bert and Ernie's Greatest Hits . He also has a few of his own albums, such as Bert's Blockbusters and The Best of Bert.

Trying to do a pigeon bird call, Bert mistakenly attracts a tiger.

He has it in "Bert's Tales of SCARY STUFF! in 'Bert's House'" Berts Pigeon Call, lion, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film that relates directly to Sesame Street or its spin-offs. ... Berts Pigeon Call, lion, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film that relates directly to Sesame Street or its spin-offs. ...


International

Sesame Street is localised for some different markets, and Bert is often renamed.

See also

Ernie and his rubber duckie with Bert in Sesame Street Bert and Ernie are two Muppets on the long-running PBS childrens television show Sesame Street. ...

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Bert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (675 words)
Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street.
He and his friend and roommate Ernie form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Bert acting the world-weary foil to Ernie's naïve trouble-maker.
A typical "Bert and Ernie" skit has Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert attempting to talk him out of it, ending with Bert completely losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea.
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