We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.
I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.
I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.
When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.
Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.
When we perform music at TV shows, we always try to do something that's not scripted because anything that's a surprise for the audience and the crew and the other performers, it works better on camera and for the people back home, too.
We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.