"I had a blast today, hanging with Elmo, Ernie, Bob and others," blogs Brian Williams, not talking about a hallucination, but rather his guest spot on the now-more-diverse Sesame Street, which he shot yesterday morning. Brian and his wife have raised their two children with Big Bird and friends, so it's always been a dream for him to appear on the show. And just like Anderson Cooper, toddlers will have no freakin' clue who these old guys are. [Daily Nightly]
• Bert and Ernie get some aural action, reenact the infamous De Niro/Pesci argument from Casino. Next up: A muppets-only reenactment of Prodigy's heartwarming classic, "Smack My Bitch Up."
• Gisele Bundchen rocks a dress made entirely out of water prompting a jealous Jessica Stam to snipe, "Evian, that's so last season."
• Jessica Simpson pretends to be a washed-up star with a major drinking problem. Yep, we can't for the life of us imagine who she's channeling for inspiration.
• Rachael Ray earned $500 million for teaching mentally challenged people how to prepare peanut butter and jelly sandwiches??
A plucky Anderson Cooper ends up in a trash can next to three grouches, two television
has-beens and an ugly green monster. Or, as Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls it, "My life."
We gotta' hand it to Matt Drudge — again — there is a reason people read his site. And it's really not for the breaking news, but for the totally crazy random stuff he is able to pull from news outlets such as Central Florida's Channel 6 News.
It seems that some high schoolers in Brockton, Massachusettes are wearing Sesame Street t shirts, that depict Big Bird smoking a cig and other Muppets from the block with guns and knives.
On some, Oscar the Grouch emerges from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun. On others, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed with automatic weapons.
"We were amazed," said the school's principal, Susan Szachowicz. "You focus on the Sesame Street character. But the more we looked at it, the more we saw the things in it, the guns, the gang stuff."
We're not sure why, in this tee, Ernie looks like a psychotic killer while Big Bird gets to rock out and smoke (or what "gang posture" is), but what we really want to see is Snuffalupugus wearing a wife beater and hitting a bong.
School Bans Sesame Street Gang T-Shirts [Local 6]
