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• I think initially it's terrifying because going into a show where, you know, "Oh, I'm going to be on stage for two hours, I have no lines to memorize, I have nothing really prepared," and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.

  Brian Henson

  Thinking, Two, Lines

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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.

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  Scripts, Comedy, Kind

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• And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

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  Puppets, Festivals, Comedy

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• We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we've done traditionally. And that's what brought us here and now we're here.

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  New York, Home, Done

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• A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

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  Blessing, Get Better, Puppets

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• 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

  Real, Skills, High Standards

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• 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.

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  Style, Trying, Cameras

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• So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

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  Challenges, Trying, Bigs

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• 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

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• I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

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  Sight, Directors, Ends

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• I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

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  Mixing, Enthusiasm, Entertainment

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• And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, 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

  Dad, Army, Artist

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

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  Dad, Riding, London

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• But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

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  Dad, Special, Puppets

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• And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

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  People, Groups, Made

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• 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?"

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  People, Way

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• At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.

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  Dad, School, College

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• I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

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  Couple, Dad, Team

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• Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film

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  Film

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• But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while there, I was really thinking my schooling would be in physics, that that was something I loved.

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  Wise, Thinking, Would Be

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• 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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  Dad, Character, Would Be

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• 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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  Fun, Puppets, Comedy

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• Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier."

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  Class, Interesting, Rose

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• I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

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  Fun, Littles, Los Angeles

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• There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did."

  Brian Henson

  Book, Littles, Festivals

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