Elmo is the smartest three-and-a-half-year-old you will ever meet. He’s also a puppet and very, very real. We caught up with the super cute monster from Sesame Street who was in town recently to spread his #ShareTheLaughter campaign.
Laugh all you want but Elmo is real. He (and we’re assuming Elmo’s a he ’cos Elmo always refers to himself as just Elmo) may be a furry red puppet but he’s the most real furry red puppet you’ll ever meet. 8 DAYS is waiting for the Sesame Street (also real) resident at the Conrad Centennial, and we hear Elmo is on his way back from the Singapore Zoo, where he had spent the entire morning touring. The three-and-a-half-yearold monster is in town for Sesame Workshop’s #ShareTheLaughter campaign, which is a movement that hopes to spread kindness around the world. Before Singapore, Elmo was in the Philippines and Thailand.
Prior to our meeting with him, we had been asked to submit our questions for the monster. One question: “Are Bert and Ernie really just friends?” was of course rejected.
Accompanying Elmo is his puppeteer Ryan Dillon, who is not only the voice but also the soul behind one of the most popular pop culture characters in the world. After all, famed puppeteer Frank Oz once said, “When a puppet is true and good and meaningful, it’s the soul of the puppeteer you’re seeing.” And there are few puppets as true, good and meaningful as Elmo.
This story is from the October 7, 2017 edition of 8 Days.
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