ry in New Brunswick. The performance
was outdoors with a pretty
full audience. Ben thinks regular,
indoor comedy club shows will
take a while to return, comparing
them to Broadway theatres which
are closed for the rest of 2020.
“As much as I’d love to be back at
it in person, it’s bad optics to okay
people drinking and laughing
indoors when schools and other
more important indoor activities
are not yet back to normal,” he
added.
Even still, both Ben and Michelle
remain busy with their comedy
careers as well as with parenting.
They both avoided performing
stand-up virtually for the first two
months, but eventually gave in
and wrote a duo act. They’ve also
done a bunch of video comedy
sketches.
“I’ve been testing a virtual game
show as well that I want to sell as
a TV show,” said Ben. “I wrote an
actual children’s book about being
a bilingual child. And I managed
to get very slightly TikTok famous
- meaning any video I post there
gets thousands of views, but I’m
still eligible for Medicaid.”
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