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

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

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, ….

At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left schoo….

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening,….

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..

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, f….

The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then th….

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

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 then while she's lip-syncing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," to this little head next to her, the head eats the cloth fabric and swallows ….

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 th….

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

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….

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 ….

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested..

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….

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as tradi….

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 ….

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….

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 ….