Brian Henson Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Puppets, Comedy

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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."

  Brian Henson

  Book, Littles, Festivals

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."

  Brian Henson

  Three, Puppets, Festivals

  Source: bigthink.com

• we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

  Brian Henson

  Momentum, Festivals, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

  Brian Henson

  Puppets, Festivals, Comedy

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.

  Brian Henson

  Nice, Two, Discipline

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Brian Henson

  Roots, Adults, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Scripts, Comedy, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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