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.

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.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.