Kennedy Center Honors Sesame Street!

Last night CBS aired The Kennedy Center Honors featuring Sesame Street, the first ever TV show to be recognized by the center.

Check out some news coverage, backstage interviews, and highlights from the ceremony  which included and nice tribute to Caroll Spinney.

In case you missed it, The entire 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors is available On Demand and on CBS All Access.

Sneak Peak: Kennedy Center Honors Sesame Street!

Last weekend Sesame Street was honored at the Kennedy Center where Sesame Workshop co-founders Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett accepted the award.

The Sesame Street cast honored Carroll Spinney, who died the day of the ceremony, by wearing yellow Big Bird feathers.

Below are some highlights of the red carpet, backstage, and ceremony:

The 42nd annual Kennedy Center Honors marks the first time a television program will receive the award. The co-founders of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney and Dr. Lloyd Morrisett, will accept the Kennedy Center Honors on behalf of the show, Muppets creator Jim Henson, seminal Muppets artists Caroll Spinney and Frank Oz, and the thousands of creatives who have built the program’s 50-year legacy.

The Kennedy Center Honors airs Sunday Dec. 15th at 8pm‎ on CBS.

Kennedy Center Honors Sesame Street!

Already one of the longest running shows in TV history, Sesame Street is about to add another milestone to it's vast accomplishments: the first TV show ever honored by the Kennedy Center. 

The event will also make it only the second time the Kennedy Center has bestowed the honor on a work of art rather than an individual, after last year's recipient Hamilton.

Accepting the honor will be Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, who co-founded the Children’s Television Workshop, which has since been renamed Sesame Workshop. 

At least 33 Kennedy Center honorees have appeared on Sesame Street, including Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Tom Hanks, and Barbra Streisand.

“We started thinking about what it would be like here in this 50th anniversary year for ‘Sesame Street,’ and it was a runaway hit with the selection committee,” Deborah F. Rutter, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said in an interview. “It really felt right to do this for ‘Sesame Street.’”

Other recipients this year include Earth, Wind & Fire, actress Sally Field, singer Linda Ronstadt, and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.  

The Kennedy Center Honors will be held Dec. 8 and CBS will broadcast the gala Dec. 15th.