- Look who's here!
- [Sesame Street Characters] Hello!
- [Kelly C] It's Big Bird, Abby Cadabby, Elmo,
Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch!
- Hi.
- Wait, where's Oscar?
- Hi.
- Where's Oscar?
- I don't know.
- [Kelly C] Nick, can you give him a?
(thud)
- [Oscar] Hello? What do you want?
- [Sesame Street Characters] Oscar!
(claps)
- I'm tryna watch my shows down here,
what do you want?
- Look, it's Sesame Street!
- Oscar we're so happy to see you.
- Yeah!
The feeling's not mutual.
(laughs)
- Well Sesame Street is celebrating 50 years
of helping kids grow up smarter,
stronger,
and kinder.
This weekend,
Sesame Street is even receiving a Kennedy Center honor,
the first ever for a TV show.
Congratulations!
- [Woman] That's amazing!
- [Kelly C] Yes!
So Big Bird,
I can't believe your street is turning 50!
How have you been celebrating?
- Oh well, you know what?
We had a big party.
And our friends Joseph Gordon-Levitt
and Patti LaBelle,
and Elvis Costello,
and Megan Trainor,
they all stopped by to join the celebration.
And we got to sing great songs like
'People in Your Neighborhood',
and 'It's not Easy Being Green',
it was a lot of fun!
- [Kelly C] Oh that's awesome!
- It was wonderful.
- Well Oscar, have you been celebrating too?
Has this been exciting?
- Oh yeah, it's been
the happiest day of my life.
(laughs)
- It sounds like it is!
So Abby,
what kinds of things have you learned on Sesame Street?
- Oh golly, there's been so many!
But mostly I've learned that
because we're part of a big community,
like we're all in this together,
that we can learn from each other.
And we can get through things,
like even if you let's say,
made somebody into a pumpkin accidentally with your wand.
Hahaha!
But you learn from your mistakes
and stuff like that.
Plus kindness is a superpower, right?
- [Kelly C] True!
Well Nick.
Nick, Kelly.
Do y'all have any questions?
- Cookie!
- Yeah.
Hi sweet thing!
(laughs)
- Hi Kelly!
What's it like over there?
Hi.
- Do you have a favorite cookie recipe?
- Oh actually, I got you a cookie!
- Oh you got cookie? Oh!
- [Elmo] Uh-oh, here we go!
- Cookie! Num-num-num!
- [Big Bird] It's almost Like -
- That's me favorite type of cookie.
- Yeah his favorite cookie recipe is step one,
get a cookie.
Step two,
eat it.
(laughs)
- Me got to clean up. Ahh!
- Nick do you have a question?
- Sure!
Elmo I was wondering,
tell me,
what famous people have come by Sesame Street?
- Boy so many people!
Let's see.
Miss Whoopie Goldberg.
- I love her!
- Yeah Mr. John Legend.
- [Kelly C] Wow!
Oh and Miss Megan Mullally came.
- [Kelly and Nick] Oh yes!
- She's my favorite!
- You know what?
Would you tell her that Elmo says hello?
- I absolutely will!
- We've been meaning to have a meeting for like weeks!
- [Nick] Okay!
- You have to tell her, okay?
- I will tell her!
- Well as we mentioned,
tomorrow is giving Tuesday.
The day was created to kick-off charitable giving
throughout the holidays.
So we wanted to give some easy ways to give back!
Kelly, what do you like to do?
- Oh my goodness, I like to do volunteer work.
And just sing.
Do something sweet.
You don't have to spend anything.
- [Kelly C] Yeah!
- You just give your time.
- That's wonderful.
- Giving kindness is important to.
Just be kind to people,
and that's a way of giving too.
- [Kelly C and Kelly] That's right, absolutely! I agree.
- And you don't have to just give to people.
You can give to animals,
and you can give to the environment.
You can just be kind to the world around you.
- [Oscar] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Giving Tuesday's alright
but I much prefer 'Give Me a Break Wednesday'.
(laughs)
- Oh Oscar!
- Well Nick, what about you?
How do you think that people can help their community?
- A great way to help out
if you don't have a lot of money to spend,
is if you have a skill,
you can share that with your neighbors.
You can shovel their sidewalk,
you can make them some food,
some lasagna,
or some pie.
Pecan or Blueberry pie.
You can bring it to my house
and I'll give you a class on eating pie.
- I can come over!
- Anything that helps somebody out and doesn't cost you.
Maybe to just spend a half an hour
or helping somebody carry their groceries,
or keeping an eye on their kids.
That can be the best gift somebody can receive.
- Especially that last one.
Just giving the parents a minute!
- Just give the parents a minute.
- Yeah!
- I think so.
And the kids can play.
- [Nick] That's right.
- Alright, well you know my favorite way to give back
is a smile.
A smile.
I come from very humble beginnings,
and I didn't always have anything to give anybody,
so I think smiling can turn someone's day around.
And it's 100% free.
And kindness is what the world needs right now
more than anything.
I think we can all agree on that.
I encourage all of you to donate ten smiles every day!
You can go to KellyClarksonShow.com to find
even more ways to give back y'all.
Sesame Street's 50th anniversary special is available
for streaming on HBO.
And guess what?
Everyone in the audience is going home
with a 50th anniversary Sesame Street DVD.
(claps)
Because Nick's show
Making It,
is premiering on NBC tonight,
I thought it might be fun if we all made something together.
It looks like you guys are all set to go, right?
- [Abby] Yes let's do it!
- [Kelly] Alright Cookie Monster.
- Are we making a cookie?
- No, is that what you think we're making?
- Me hope we making cookies.
- We
nope, nope sorry.
- Okay bye-bye!
- I wish we were making cookies.
- Oh Cookie Monster, come back!
- It's not cookies.
But it is something grown-ups and kids can make together.
And when you're done,
you can keep it or give it as a gift.
- Or eat it!
- Or eat -- yeah, okay!
Oscar, does that sound fun?
- As long as we're making a mess, it's okay by me!
- [Kelly C] Alright I'm in, I'm in!
It's a woodworking project
so Mr. Nick is going to walk us through the steps.
Take it away Nick.
- Yes go ahead Mr. Nick.
- Okay thank you Elmo.
- You're welcome.
- Alright we're gonna make string art ornaments.
- [Kelly C] Okay.
These are something that are fun to make
with grown-ups and kids.
You need five things.
A slab of wood that's cookie-shaped.
- Cookie.
- [Nick] Don't mean to be misleading.
Some small nails.
- [Kelly C] Okay.
A hammer.
A template.
And some string.
- Alright so where do we start?
- Okay well see,
my template is in the shape of a Christmas tree.
So you lay that on your wood.
- [Kelly C] Okay.
And you're gonna drive a nail
- In all the dots?
- Everywhere there's a dot.
- [Kelly C] Okay.
- You don't have to drive them in very far!
But you do want each one of them to be
approximately level.
You want to be careful.
It's a good idea to protect your eyes
whenever you're screwing in a nail.
- [Kelly C] Okay.
- Nothing to see here!
- Oh whoops! Oh shoot!
- I don't know why we're doing this in the dark.
- Safety first, right Elmo?
- Yeah, safety first Mr Nick.
- Okay.
Now this is gonna take a while
so I'm gonna ask Abby
- Yeah!
- [Nick] If she will help us through the magic of television
by giving us a wave of your wand.
- Okay here we go Nick!
Through the magic of television
zippidy-zap!
- [Everyone] Whoa!
(claps)
- Okay Nick, what do we do now?
Thank you Abby!
- [Nick] Abby, nice work!
You see all the nails have been driven in,
and the template has been torn away.
So you take your string,
and you wind it around all these nails.
- Okay.
- [Nick] And you see that your shape will begin to form.
In my case,
it's a Christmas tree.
- [Elmo] Very festive.
- Thank you.
- [Elmo] You're welcome.
- What are you making?
- I'm a heart.
- Oh that's so nice!
- Exactly.
- We're doing a star!
- [Kelly C] I feel like I am a heart, yes!
- So this is really fun because you can choose whatever
pattern you want.
And you can go all over the place.
But it's gonna take a long time.
So Abby?
- Yeah?
Do you think you can wave your wand again?
- Grab me one of those wands!
- Will you say please?
- Please!
- Okay here we go!
Through the magic of television,
zippidy-zap!
(claps)
- Oh my God!
- They're so wonderful!
- Mine is beautiful!
- Look at that!
- Look at the star!
- Beautiful!
- Oh my gosh!
Well thank you so much Mr. Nick,
I'm gonna do this with my kids.