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BY GEORGE DICKIE As a comedian by trade, did you find filming "Flatbush Misdemeanors" helped sharpen your stand-up skills? Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's always been my goal, is to be like a stand- up comedian who makes things, like the comedian who makes shows and films and stuff and would want each one to sort of feed the other and be able to just continue to do both at a higher level. And so yeah, totally, because you can just tell stories and you can hit other perspectives and that's such an important thing in stand-up, also, when you're doing a bit, is to consider other people's perspectives that helps flesh out the bit. And so to do that with characters and storytelling, they totally feed off each other. And also, it makes you quicker in also the way we're shooting the show. We're shooting it very fast and we're shooting it – we just have to adjust to a lot of stuff. And doing comedy, you just have the ability to adjust and you're just like, "OK, this is the reality." And you roll with it. So they totally serve each other, yeah. Was there room for improv in "Flatbush"? Yeah, it depends who it is but we always (film) it as scripted first, just to know we have it. But when we have these very gifted comedians on who do that better than anybody, then we want to give them room to get some takes where they're just going off OF 'FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS' ON SHOWTIME Dan Perlman July 12 - 18, 2021 Page 9 InFocus C R T H O M Q F Z Q A S C X K A I R E F B S T R O N G Q L U E V P K W C Y V C Y B M W W M Y Q I T H K D E X S A N A B M N L X O L H Z I V S F R J U I E M O Q C O Z T H M Y E A F N Z L Z D A K W J Y V G T X P G M I N G P U A O H Q L U O P A U R M K W D E T Y P D A U R I O E D H S A J O S H L B M B I A T O K S Z C J W P T G E O R B T X S G F W V B J N R H E O U E I T P A U L N B S D B Y Y G L B M R C J G V F N K X D A E E Y E O R A L I Y Z S J U M word search solution "Jungle Cruise" (Dis- ney+ — movie premiere, July 30) Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) enlists the aid of wise- cracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) to take her down the Amazon in his ramshackle boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal — a discovery that will change the future of medi- cine. Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti and Jack Whitehall also star. Solution on page 2 Your message could be here! Call 574-533-2151 ext. 345 Advertise Here! (574) 533-2151

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