<P> He appeared in the final episode of The Colbert Report along with Cookie Monster and dozens of other celebrities singing We'll Meet Again . </P> <P> On February 16, 2015, Big Bird appeared with Michelle Obama to promote healthy eating, on the web series Billy on the Street . </P> <P> Big Bird appeared with Caroll Spinney in a spoof of the Academy Award winning film Birdman . Published on YouTube on February 19, 2015, the video shows Spinney sitting in a dressing room with a poster of Big Bird behind him . Spinney hears the voice of his alter ego, just as Michael Keaton's character Riggan hears his alter ego Birdman in the movie . He uses telekinesis to throw a box of tissues at the Big Bird poster . The spoof uses similar music to the Birdman film . The Big Birdman spoof appears as if it were shot in one long take, mimicking the long scenes of the movie . It follows Caroll out of the dressing room, down hallways, through doors, and out onto the sidewalk, where he is joined by Big Bird . </P> <P> In an advertisement for AT&T / DirecTV, Big Bird and other film / television personalities such as David Hasselhoff (as his Knight Rider persona Michael Knight) and the Oklahoma Sooners football team appear interspersed with the daily workings of a major city as someone walks around using the service's TV Everywhere initiative . </P>

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