Puppet Quotations

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

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 fun of the puppets for being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show.

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.

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."

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."

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

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ...

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.