I wrote sketches…Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert & Ernie dynamic. So you’re saying that Bert & Ernie became analogs for your relationship in a ...

Mark Saltzman, a scriptwriter for “Sesame Street” in the 1980s and ’90s, has revealed that he always imagined Bert and Ernie as “loving partners,” drawing on his own experience as a gay man.

“I wrote sketches…Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert and Ernie dynamic,” he said. After the interview renewed the discussion about Bert and ...

I wrote sketches … Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert & Ernie dynamic. The things that would tick off Arnie would be the things that would tick off ...

Bert and Ernie have been considered icons in the LGBTQ community for years, but Saltzman said he didn’t write their same-sex relationship with an agenda, rather drawing from his own experiences.

"I wrote sketches…Arnie's OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that's the Bert & Ernie dynamic." "I will say that I would never have said to the head writer, 'oh, I'm writing ...

There's a sketch comedy show in Britain that sees ... So must the producers of Sesame Street feel about Bert and Ernie, the iconic pair in matching striped outfits who have cohabitated on the ...

"I wrote sketches...Arnie's OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that's the Bert and Ernie dynamic," he said. After the interview renewed the discussion about Bert and Ernie's ...