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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

So while you’re trying to improvise, you’re also trying to puppeteer, you’re doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.
BRIAN HENSON

Camera Style Trying
he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it’s great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.
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Comedy Fun Puppets
I have nothing really prepared,” and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.
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Improvising Prepare Showing
Oh, well, I can’t tell you; it would be telling you the end. It’s a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that’s what my dad was doing.
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Character Dad Lip Syncing
I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.
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Mistakes People Trying
And it should be something that only that group of people could’ve made with everybody invested.
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Groups Made People
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.
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Artist Lonely Odd People Wracking
So it’s Rosemary Clooney – Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing. “
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Blonde Singing Song
It’s actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it’s really tough.
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Brain Littles Tough
There’s an awful lot of scenes where we don’t know what the scene’s going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.
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Audience Awful Scene
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.”
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Created Creation Inside Lan
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.
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Blue Trying Want
And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they’re going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that’s part of the fun.
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Fun Naughty Suggestions
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
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Dad Mom Stories
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
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Adults Certain Roots Use
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.
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Attention Challenges Mind

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.

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