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.

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.

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.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Look for happiness under your own roof.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.