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This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

Brian Henson

And it should be something that only that group of people could’ve made with everybody invested.
BRIAN HENSON

Groups Made People
The challenge is, well, there’s a huge challenge, which is when you’re improvising, you’re meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.
BRIAN HENSON

Attention Challenges Mind
We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we’ve have audiences that don’t really want us to go too far in that direction.
BRIAN HENSON

Blue Trying Want
I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation.”
BRIAN HENSON

Created Creation Inside Lan
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it’s a real technical skill.
BRIAN HENSON

High Real Skills Standards
I think it’s a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it’s very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
BRIAN HENSON

Fleshly Improx Puppets Thinking
In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the ’50’s and ’60’s, and we’re going to develop more, too.
BRIAN HENSON

Dad Mother Show Two
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.
BRIAN HENSON

Looks Stage Used
To anyone who’s trying to be an artist, in any medium, it’s a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you’re working on.
BRIAN HENSON

Artist Lonely Odd People Wracking
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
BRIAN HENSON

Dad Mom Stories
I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.
BRIAN HENSON

Art Mother Teacher
We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.
BRIAN HENSON

Comedy Kind Scripts
People would say to him, “When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?” Or, “Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?”
BRIAN HENSON

Intended Movie People Way
Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.
BRIAN HENSON

Character Personality Writing
But the fact that most of the show you can’t be prepared for, you have no idea really what’s coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it’s kind of fun.
BRIAN HENSON

Fun Ideas Nerves
I have nothing really prepared,” and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.
BRIAN HENSON

Improvising Prepare Showing

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