Age: 55
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Matthew J Vogel II (born October 6, 1970) has been a Muppet performer for the Jim Henson Company since the 1990s. On Sesame Street, Vogel served as the assistant puppeteer for Ernie, performing either one or both hands while Steve Whitmire performed the head and vocal. Eventually, Vogel's ability to mimic the sound and performance of Caroll Spinney's Big Bird was put to use. As of 2006, Vogel's primary performances as Big Bird are the "Journey to Ernie" segments. He's also taken over Jerry Nelson's characters, by the recommendation of Nelson himself. Vogel is, as of 2008, the voice of Floyd Pepper, Lew Zealand, Crazy Harry, Robin the Frog, & Camilla the Chicken. He has also taken over the puppetry of Jerry's most famous character, Count von Count, but Jerry is still providing the voice. Vogel performed the muppets that were used in Kenneth the Page's view of the world in the 30 Rock episode, "Apollo, Apollo." Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Vogel (puppeteer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Matt Vogel
Big Bird
for Big Bird in A Quiet Day on Sesame Street
Suggested by tomzillawash3r3
In this Endgame finale, all of Sesame Street Muppets worry about the inevitable, the time to grow up and face real-life. Nothing is as colorful as it used to be when they were younger and everyone seems to move on from the street they live on. Grim, a dangerous masked villain in armor sucks away the imagination and tells them the truth about the world and how horrible it is. They have a choice lead normal boring lives like everyone else or stay a child forever and no one will care. The street gang choose to fight back with everything they've learned up to this point since 1969 in the epic confrontation against Grim and his terrible glimpse of reality.
