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.

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.

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

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.

In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.

And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

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.

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

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.

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.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.