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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.” • Available at NewParentSmell.com NJ STAGE - ISSUE 73 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 77