Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
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,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
