“I created Bert,” says Frank Oz. “I know what and who he is.” And no, he isn’t gay. “I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were,” Saltzman said when asked ...

“I remember one time that a column from the San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city turned to mom and asked ‘are Bert & Ernie Iovers?’” Saltzman recalled. “And that, coming from a ...

“It seems Mr. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay,” Oz, a longtime Muppets veteran and Bert’s creator, wrote. “It’s fine that he feels they are. They’re not, of course. But why that ...