It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

