We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a produc….

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….

We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to ….

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 re….

I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake, if ….

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

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill..

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 pro….

To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what ….

In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that ….

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….

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 A….

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

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv..

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 one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their h….

Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the….

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….

And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shoot….

I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something t….

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 rea….