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See the cover and an interview with author Erik Forrest Jackson.
Inside was a questionnaire Id filled out and never mailed.
Credit: Carol Kaelson/ABC
One of the questions was, What do you want to see more of in our pages?
And kid Erik had written, The Muppets, Queen, andDom DeLuise.
Hundreds of hours of psychoanalysis probably couldnt define me more accurately than this appropriately odd Patronus triumvirate does.
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(I made sure to include some Easter eggs for those fans.)
All the heightened melodrama in the tale proved pretty fertile for comedy.
Theres everything from knock-knock jokes and groan-worthy puns to references to Stephen Sondheim andThe Fast and the Furious.
I imagined it as a Muppet movie for the mind and worked to make its appeal span the ages.
If I did my job right, itll tickle everyone from current middle-graders to longtime Muppet devotees.
Casting the right characters to play the copiousPhantomroles took me a good while.
Do you have a favorite Muppet?
Hes my go-to for the perfect zinger, okay.
Am I divulging too many of my comedy neuroses?
But I bet Dom DeLuise would have understood.
