Something weird will likely happen during this show.

It's a conversation with the audience the whole time. We want them to feel like a part of the show.

It's what I want to do for a living.

We don't want to quote numbers yet, but we will be bigger.

With puppets, you follow the head and the arms will follow, but Frank didn't really do that with the Swedish Chef. He and my dad were best friends, but they were very competitive. They were always doing things to see who could be funnier and how could they upstage each other, ... Frank was often leading. He'd be picking stuff up and choking things. My dad would be talking mock-Swedish and he'd have to try to keep up. After a while, Frank would say, ‘Maybe someone else should do the hands,' but my dad would never let him. He said, ‘No, you're doing the hands.'

He's certainly won them over. He's not a heavy-handed shock jock who will shout you down. He'll have a spirited debate with you and in the end agree to disagree.