UPDATE: Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, is speaking out about Bert and Ernie. "As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends.

Bert and Ernie are a gay couple, according to 'Sesame Street' writer Mark Saltzman, and their relationship is a reflection of his partnership with film editor Arnold Glassman.

A fire early Friday morning destroyed the long-vacant Bert and Ernie’s bar on Industrial Street, according to the Redding Fire Department.

The Importance of Being Ernie (or Bert) is just the latest in a series of books that readers of any age will love, whether you’re four or 40. Cookie Monster’s The Joy of Cookies and Oscar the ...

Bert absently watched the smoke rising off of the lit cigarette that dangled on the edge of the bathtub and then looked down to see a nugget of gray ash fall off the tip and disperse in the now ...

Jenny McCarthy thinks Hydra could be 'Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie in this exclusive 'Masked Singer' preview.

Sesame Workshop can say Bert and Ernie’s bath time adventures are platonic until they’re orange in the face, but even Sesame Street’s writers know the truth. Now, having been inundated with ...

That’s not the only lesson Bert and Ernie have to impart. You see, straight America, there’s a difference between same-sex friends and gay lovers.

Bert and Ernie are two cute little kittens in need of a forever home. Kristen Eastman of Austin Animal Center joined us in the studio to share more about this pair.

Jimmy Kimmel got on his (actual) High Horse to declare that Bert and Ernie are not gay, because they have no genitalia and poor fashion sense.

Beloved "Sesame Street" roommates Bert and Ernie are more than friends — they're a couple, a former writer for the show has confirmed.