| Picture | Ceremony | Description |
|---|
| 1970
Primetime | Big Bird joins Dick Cavett as a presenter at the prime-time awards, marking the first appearance of a Sesame Street character at the ceremonies. This was also the first appearance of a redesigned Big Bird puppet, with a fuller head of feathers. Offstage, Big Bird was photographed with Peter Ustinov's head inside his beak.[1] Big Bird with Burt Bacharach. Big Bird eats meets Peter Ustinov. |
| 1973
Primetime | Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster present the award for "Best Children's Series." Cookie Monster ends up eating the envelope before it's announced, and Kermit has to use a flashlight to see who the winner is. The winner ends up being a tie between Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Zoom.[2] (YouTube) |
| 1976
Daytime | Northern Calloway leads a performance of "One" with a chorus line of costumed children's characters, including Big Bird, H.R. Pufnstuf, the Dancing Bear from Captain Kangaroo, and Paul the Gorilla from The Electric Company. |
| 1977
Primetime | Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear present. |
| 1979
Primetime | Miss Piggy thinks that she and Kermit have been asked to host the show, but he explains that they're just there to read the rules. Piggy is offended: "I did NOT spend six hours with Monsieur Jacques of Encino to read lousy rules!" She pouts while Kermit reads the rules, then refuses to get offstage until she gets a close-up, and eventually karate chops the frog for his remarks before leaving the stage. (transcript) (YouTube) |
| 1982
Daytime | The Sesame Street cast appears performing a tribute to television using letters of the alphabet (mixed with portions of "Sing"). (YouTube) Appearing are humans Gordon, Susan, Maria, Luis, Bob, David, Olivia, Mr. Hooper and the kids. Muppet characters include Buster the Horse, Telly Monster, Count von Count, Kermit the Frog, Fred the Wonder Horse, Farley, Oscar the Grouch, Herry Monster, Barkley, Clementine, Rusty, Sherlock Hemlock, Biff, Sully and some Anything Muppets. Big Bird turns up at the end, having missed the entire musical number. |
| 1984
Primetime | Jim Henson appears as himself, presenting the award for "Best performer in a variety or music series" with Paul Williams. Before coming on-stage, Tom Selleck talks about Jim Henson's beginnings and the "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" clip is shown. Although Jim Henson appears without any of his characters, he does announce the winner, Cloris Leachman, in Kermit's voice. |
| 1989
Primetime | Miss Piggy appears to accept the "Grand Jury Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Humans," which Kermit corrects swiftly, telling her that they appear to give the "Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program." John Lovelady and Allan Trautman are among the nominees for Sid and Marty Krofft's D.C. Follies, while Linda Ronstadt wins the award. Preceding their onstage appearance, a clip montage of famous puppets is shown. Among the clips are two borrowed from The Muppet Show: One featuring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy from their appearance and Fozzie Bear's act from episode 424 (his name on-screen being misspelled as "Fozzy Bear"). |
| 1994
Daytime | LeVar Burton speaks on behalf of Sesame Street’s 25th anniversary, leading to a montage of clips from the show. Big Bird appears onstage to help Burton present the award for "Outstanding Animated Children's Program." |
| 1997
Daytime | Elmo and Rosie O'Donnell present the Emmy for "Outstanding Children's Series." Elmo is excited to present a Daytime Elmo Award, but he is confused as to why the statue doesn't look anything like him - it's not even furry and it does nothing when you tickle it. Rosie explains that it's the Emmy Award, not the Elmo Award. She points out that nobody on Sesame Street has an award named after them. Elmo retorts "Oh, really? What about Oscar?" |
| 2003
Daytime | Elmo, Zoe, Grover, Rosita, Big Bird and Wayne Brady perform a medley of songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as a tribute to Fred Rogers. |
| 2004
Primetime | Kermit and Miss Piggy host the pre-show for the Emmys. Piggy wears a dress by Lela Rose. |
| 2004
Daytime | The Sesame Street Muppets appeared on stage during the Daytime Emmys ceremony, performing "Sing" with several celebrities (Al Roker, Alex Trebek, Jane Pauley, Paige Davis, Lorenzo Lamas, Meredith Vieira, Emeril Lagasse and Drake Hogestyn), followed by a montage of celebrity appearances, celebrating the show's 35th anniversary. |
| 2005
Daytime | Oscar the Grouch and All My Children actor David Canary, both in trash cans, present the award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series. Kevin Clash wins the award. |
| 2006
Daytime | Caroll Spinney is awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys. The award is presented to Spinney (and Oscar) by Cheryl Henson and Bob McGrath. (YouTube) |
| 2007
Daytime | Elmo and Tyra Banks presented the winners of the "Children's Emmy Awards." (YouTube) |
| 2009
Daytime | Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Gordon, Bob, Maria, Luis, Abby Cadabby, Dorothy, Zoe, Chris, Telly, and Oscar the Grouch performed a medley of songs on the awards broadcast to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Sandra Oh presented the Lifetime Achievement Award. The broadcast opened with Oscar working at the will call window of the theater, denying admission to Gordon and Elmo to the ceremony, but allowing actor Erik Estrada to enter without a ticket. Just as everyone is about to leave the stage, Cookie Monster steals the award and says to the Academy that not only is the award a great honor... "IT DELICIOUS!" He proceeds to start to eat the award, commenting that "it taste better than Latin Grammy!" |
| 2012
Daytime | Oscar the Grouch and Anderson Cooper introduced the show. Oscar, claiming he's only appearing because Elmo was booked, sings "What's So Great About Daytime?" Kevin Clash was amongst the presenters at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, held June 17. The "Outstanding Performer" and "Outstanding Children's Animated Program" categories were awarded at the main Daytime Emmy award ceremonies. |
| 2019
Daytime | Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Alan, along with David Osmond and Joely Fisher, opened the evening with a medley of "Sing" and the "Sesame Street Theme." (Facebook video) Later in the show, the three appeared alongside hosts Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood to discuss the show's 50th anniversary and introduced a clip montage of the series. |
| 2020
Daytime | The ceremonies were held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cookie Monster presented the Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Culinary Series". Big Bird and Cookie Monster appeared as insets during the acceptance speech for "Outstanding Special Class Special." Various clips from past ceremonies were aired, throughout the broadcast. One clip was of the 2004 appearance. Caroll Spinney was featured in the ceremony's "In Memoriam" segment. |
| 2022
Children's & Family | Gobo and Red (with John Tartaglia and Karen Prell) appeared with chairman of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Terry O'Reilly. They appeared again at the end of the ceremony to sing Magic Be with You with host Jack McBrayer. (YouTube) |
| 2023
Children's & Family | Abby Caddaby and Leslie Carrara-Rudolph appeared as presenters. |
