Remembering Big Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney, dead at 85
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Tributes are pouring in for Caroll Spinney, the Sesame Street puppeteer who spent 50 years as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. He died Sunday at age 85. NBC’s Harry Smith joins TODAY to look at Spinney’s life and career.Dec. 9, 2019
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