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.

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.

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.

Modesty, not temper.

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.