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When Matt Vogel was in ninth grade, he won his high school talent show with a puppeteering act. Despite cheers from the audience, he could only focus on the booing

Started with lying about my ability to be a puppeteer to a potential client. but lots of studying. so you work on your puppetry manipulation skills which is not too dissimilar to dance. you work on your voice acting skills, but most importantly, you work on your acting and character acting skills. >> you have to have great coordination. >> you do, you have to have good hand eye coordination to control the puppets but also if you dont work on your acting, its not gonna come through the character....

>> had a coordination, i can now cross puppeteer off my list of things that i can do with my life. i have to imagine if you are a puppeteer and you get a call asking if you want to audition and then be a part of being a muppet performer, i mean, that is top shelf? >> it is the sort of thing that you dont think well ever happen to you. when you are a puppeteer, you do it because we love the craft. and when the muppets call you are like wait, is this actually happening? did i drink a little too mu...

Not too dissimilar to dance. you work on your voice acting skills, but most importantly, you work on your acting and character acting skills. you >> have to have great coordination. >> you do, you have to have good hand eye coordination to control the puppets but also if you dont work on your acting, its not gonna come through the character. thats why all the characters on the muppets are so relate-able and you understand it immediately because the actives come through the performers. >> and -- ...