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Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'AP Entertainment8th August 2006, Edinburgh(Left to Right Bug-eyes, Brian Henson, Goat)2. SOT Brian Henson: \"We're all really television...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJim Henson = No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e1. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003e8th August 2006, Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e(Left to Right Bug-eyes, Brian Henson, Goat)\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOT Brian Henson: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're all really television and film guys, so it's a lot of fun for us to do something in front of a real live audience, right?\"\u003cbr/\u003eGoat:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well for me I heard there were a lot of sheep here, that's why I came here. (Q.Reporter - \"And have you found any?) Oh yeah... it's the sky of Edinburgh.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBrian Henson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The show is all improvised, it's a lot of fun for us, it's very nerve wracking because every night is a different show, and we really are purists in that we don't take suggestions we've had before, so we really do make it up for every sketch that we do.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e3. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003e8th August 2006, Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOT Brian Henson: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We just do little set ups; like we say these two little guys witnessed a crime, they're coming to the police station and they're telling their story, they saw somebody do something. Who did they see, was it a celebrity, and the audience yells out names. Ok, what did they see them do, and then literally we just go, we don't give anybody time to think or talk to each other.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e5. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003e8th August 2006, Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOT Brian Henson: \u003cbr/\u003e\"2 to 4 puppeteers names are called out and we just go and grab a puppet at random and then we just go. I mean this guy for example, he really doesn't have any name, we kind of call him Bug Eyes and this one we just call a Goat, none of them are really named because every night they'll be a completely different character. The goat might turn out being a grandmother who's a sweet little knitting grandma, and then be something completely different and scary and naughty and dirty the next night; and likewise with the Bug Eyes character he can have completely different characters.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e7. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003e8th August 2006, Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOT Bug-eyes: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well sometimes you've got to click your brain in and then, oh my goodness, when they laugh, we just look at each other and then go what are they laughing at; but then we figure it's us, so that's good,\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOT Goat: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's hard on me physically, in the adult show there's a lot of like inter-species relationships going on so it's.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOT Brian Henson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It gets pretty filthy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e9. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003e8th August 2006, Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOT Brian Henson: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think we can say it, you know. If we told you you'd have to bleep it all, probably. Oh it's all about bestiality and all sorts of things and often sketches end up in hell and things like that.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOT Goat:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Put it this way, my mum will never see it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions\u003cbr/\u003e11. Jim Henson 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eThey may look like Muppets, but these creatures from the Jim Henson's Creature Shop are an entirely different breed.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey have the potential to be smutty, rude and downright disgusting, and, unlike the Muppet Show and their various spin-offs, their show at the Edinburgh Festival is entirely unrehearsed.\u003cbr/\u003eThe spongy creatures are starring in the Jim Henson's \"Puppet Improv\" which as the title suggests, is totally improvised.  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