Can I just be blunt? You wouldn't want that, joke or not. The power would go to my head and I'd be a horrid dictator. I rather not go into details, but really... you don't want that.
I saw that clip on youtube, the actual clip I mean....not the article. I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. It was so great to see Sesame Street actually acting like....well........Sesame Street! Like when Kermit and Grover used to get into all kinds of silliness, or when Mr. Johnson ( ho ho ho.....lol Grover) would have all sorts of problems and yell. Or even the old grumpy grouchy Oscar. Besides, I loved that hard rock " NA NA NA NA NAAAAAAAA" part.
But that's my point exactly...
Sesame Street has been and will always be a show that uses comedy (among other things, but mostly comedy) to get messages across. Like, when you open up a book of funny facts, you'll remember them forever, as opposed to reading something straight in a text books and getting quizzed on it... you'll forget most of what you know eventually, unless you can link some sort of positive emotion to it.
There are just so many kid's shows nowadays that are witless and vapid that talk so down to children, you'd swear they're talking baby talk. And I don't feel like re-listing all the culprits. Then you look at stuff like Curious George, Word Girl (though that's for older kids), Arthur... they all have such sharp writing that anyone can enjoy. George even had one episode where the Man in the Yellow Hat loses his hat and says something to the extent of "If I don't have my yellow hat...I...just don't know who I am." I'm in my late 20's and I fell out of the chair laughing. I caught one minute of Super Why, and I felt very ill. They slaughter fairy tales to make them suitable for 1 year olds, eliminating any conflict and peril and all the wonderful things that made these stories time honored classics. Even the sanitized Disney versions kept in references to evil, villainy, spite and all those wonderful negative things with bad sounding names that make stories.
This comment is just as bad to me as the parental groups that say "I hate when my kids ask for something in the store. It's the commercial's fault!" And they buy their kids stuff anyway. Or The parents that whine about their kids getting hurt playing tag, baseball, dodgeball, kickball...etc. and ban those activities at their kid's schools, and then complain that their kids aren't going outside with physical activities and are now gaining weight. Sure, raising a child is a hard thing. But that's what being a parent is. You can't sit your kid in front of a TV wrapped up in bubble wrap all day and expect them to become well adjusted, healthy, and successful. You'll wind up with kids too afraid to make risks and incapable of making decisions for themselves. And frankly, that's frankly worse than letting a 3 year old watch "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," let alone Rickey Gervais being funny.
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I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. It was so great to see Sesame Street actually acting like....well........Sesame Street! Like when Kermit and Grover used to get into all kinds of silliness, or when Mr. Johnson ( ho ho ho.....lol Grover) would have all sorts of problems and yell. Or even the old grumpy grouchy Oscar. Besides, I loved that hard rock " NA NA NA NA NAAAAAAAA" part. 
