Look: There’s no denying it anymore. Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, is a bad man. After the first allegations came out about Clash sleeping with a potentially underage man, I willed myself to give Clash the benefit of the doubt. He was so charming and harmless-seeming in the documentary, Being Elmo, that it just didn’t add up. Moreover, the victim’s retraction plus the retraction of the retraction gave me license to reluctantly side with Clash. When the second accuser came out of the woodwork, I dismissed him, too, because he was asking for $5 million, and it felt like a money play. Then Kevin Clash resigned from Sesame Street and I thought, oh, well, he’s doing it for the good of the show. KEVIN CLASH IS A TEAM PLAYER. That may be true, but Kevin Clash is a team player who likes to bang teenage boys, y’all.
We ignored the third accuser because, GOD, won’t this story just go away already? We get it, we get it: There’s a lot of opportunists trying to take advantage of Kevin Clash’s pocket book. But now?
Now, a fourth accuser has come forward, and for the first time, Clash now possibly faces criminal charges. Why? Because this accuser — who was 16 or 17 at the time — was given a plane ticket by Kevin Clash to fly from Miami to New York so that Clash could get his hang-low stinky. In fact, this accuser claims that he has been molested before, and that Kevin Clash invited him to New York to “be his Dad,” and help him to heal the psychic wounds of his sexual abuse by SEXUALLY ABUSING HIM.
Anyway, the transportation across state lines gives the feds jurisdiction to bring a criminal case. Meanwhile, Kevin Clash has taped enough episode of Elmo to take Sesame Street until 2014, which means that when any of us parents hear Elmo’s obnoxiously irritating voice, we’ll also know that it’s probably the same voice Clash used to get teenage boys under the covers, where Elmo’s Beeker was waiting for him.
Honestly, at this point, new voice or not, the image of the Elmo character has been sullied, and forever associated with a likely sexual abuser. Sesame Street might be wise to pull the character from the show indefinitely, and maybe replace him with Abby Cadaby, who is considerably less annoying anyway.
(Source: The Daily Beast)
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Between Kevin Clash and Jimmy Savile…
I’d never want to be between Kevin Clash and Jimmy Savile. Which way would I face?
Ugh. Just ugh. Now I know how the Doomsday believers feel. Giving up on the dream hurts, but Kevin Clash, dammit, you’re now a piece of shit. And he HAS KIDS, I think who are around the same age as the accusers. Horrible.
The full Muppet Family Christmas is on YouTube and its striking how Elmo is a bit character in the Sesame Street universe during their number – [youtu.be] – where as Harry Monster is a featured character.
Probably should’ve left it that way…
Clash is the Jerry Sandusky of children’s entertainment.
Apparently nittany lions have red fur.
All y’all laughed at Mitt, but he knew the score about PBS.
Fucking Nancy Grace over here with the willingness to proclaim anybody guilty.
Not to say things don’t seem fishy here, but has there been anything proven yet?
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Granted generally where there’s smoke, you know the rest but damn, this pretty quick to bury the guy.
Assumption makes an ass out of you and me, but damn if this doesnt get more and more depressing by the week.
Well said with the Nancy Grace proclamation-
Oh. no this is just a sentencing hearing. Banishment or execution?
Emma Stone can brighten any story.
Agreed. Emma Stone is a national treasure.
I prefer her as a red head.
I feel so very dirty after reading this. Not the good kind of dirty either.
Oh, so three is middle ground, but four accusations is a threshold when it becomes official and substantial?
This is so icky… Icky and I do not like it one bit.
speculation is a fool’s game
So depressing, if it’s all really true. Even if not, the damage is done and you’re right about pulling the character probably being best. It’s too difficult to separate the art from the artist on this one.
das facked ap
I really hate Elmo, and yet I wanted to think this guy was innocent.
I don’t have kids, I’ve never been harmed in such a way, so I’m going to leave this to all work itself out. To quote Pulp Fiction, “My name’s Paul and this s**t’s between y’all”.
Abby Cadabby and Zoe.
Fucking Sesame Street, man. I was thinking about that mustachioed chef who used to crash through the doors with his x number of cream pies so I googled “Sesame street cream pie” but “Sesame” got autocorrected to “Semen”. The middle-aged woman sat next to me on the train was not impressed. Even less so when I continued bating anyway.
If only you guys could have embraced this story immediately instead of letting you PC collars restrain you. It’s comedy gold Dustin. Gold!
Was Kevin Clash the monster at the end of the book that Grover was hiding from?
Just because a bunch of 20 and 30 somethings may have trouble disassociating Elmo from a bad man from now on, doesn’t mean the average 5 year old will. Elmo isn’t going anywhere, folks.
What’s the world coming to when you can’t believe everything you see in a documentary?
“get his hang-low stinky”
Is that a thing? Are we saying that now?
I’ve never liked Elmo. As some commenter somewhere once wrote “Go AWAY and stop trying to be the Grover.”
That’s for that bit of Emma Stone. I needed that after this article.