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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 Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did."

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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.

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

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This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

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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…

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