Jerry Nelson, Count of 'Sesame Street,' dies at 78

In this June 2012 publicity photo released by "Sesame Street," puppeteer Jerry Nelson is shown with "Sesame Street" character Count von Count in New York. Sesame Workshop announced that Nelson, who suffered from emphysema, died at age 78 onJerry Nelson, a puppeteer with Sesame Street for more than four decades, has died. He was 78. Nelson was best known for voicing the numbers-obsessed Count.Jerry Nelson, the man slash puppet who taught us how to count has passed on at 1, 2,

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