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In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

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Paul Feig
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 17
Actor
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Television Producer
Mount Clemens
Michigan
Paul Samuel Feig
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