Apparently Big Bird Makes $314K A Year And People Are All Worked Up About That
(Atlantic) — Even Big Bird has to make some money. The Sesame Workshop’s 990 form for the 2010 tax year reveals that Caroll Spinney, the man behind the newsworthy yellow guy and Oscar the Grouch, made $314,072. That’s the most recent form available at Guidestar, which covers the tax year ended June 30, 2011. At MSN Jonathan Berr writes that Spinney’s salary shows that “like for-profit media companies, Sesame needs to pay top dollar to attract talent.” Spinney has played the bird since the show began in 1969, though others have stepped into the role at times.
I absolutely love people freaking out about this. Same people yelling that Romney hated Sesame Street are now the idiot 99%ers saying he makes way too much. I think I know a thing or two about this…
If anything Big Bird doesn’t make enough. Dressing up in a big mascot suit is literally the worst thing in the world. It’s awkward and hot as shit. Everyone is grabbing you and touching you and wants pictures. Meanwhile you literally can’t see a thing. You’re like Helen Keller walking through Times Square. Anyone complaining he makes too much can shut the fuck up. You want to deal with trying to teach urban youths how to count and how to identify colors and shapes and shit? No fucking thanks. Not for all the gold in Fort Knox. Let La’Shon figure out the difference between Blood Red and Crip Blue on his own. Manuel can rack his own brain until he realizes that dos means two. Seriously you ever seen Sesame Street? We have this romanticized view of it because we were kids. Should have been called Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Never mind that piece of shit Oscar yelling at you from the trash can and that big blue bully the Cookie Monster stealing all your snacks at lunch. 314 thousand dollars a year for that? You can go fuck yourself.
Pres would do it for less than half that, and he definitely has the beak for the job.
fire blog from feets, per usual. making fun of coons and spics is always a crowd pleaser.
Can you blog about Devlins gut when you get a chance?
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NAACP holding on line 2 for Mr Feitelberg.
where the hell is rider? and why are the chicks there so hot
I knew his daughter Melissa when I was in high school. They lived one town away (still do I think). Anyways, she was HOT!!!
Nice one Feiterberg, you ignorant racist fuck. Pretty sure the only reason you have a job writing shitty blogs is because your coked-out mother left you in front of Big Bird and friends and somehow, some way you managed to be able to string together a couple coherent sentences between all the asinine bullshit you normally compose. The fact that your vote counts just as much make me want to kick babies and rape puppies. You make me sick.
@lafatm3 yoyo homey just because Bammie got elected due to white guilt and then gave you a free cell phone and he plays basketball — doesn’t mean the whole country has gone all third world Afrocan’t American. As part of the 47% you should be nice to the white folk that work to get you and your crack ho mama dher welfare checks each and every mofo month. mofo.
big bird in his nest. oscar in his can. ernie is a guy, who lives with another man
Honestly Feiteltwat, you try so hard to be funny that I get lost half way into your completely asinine, random and poorly executed references. Clean it up fuckface.
Dumbest post I’ve ever read here. They could get any idiot to be in that stupid bird suit. Sesame Street and talent should never be in that same sentence. My daughter’s 5th grade play has better talent in it than Sesame Street.