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Paul Feig is dancing around his living room to the 1960s French pop song “Les Cactus,” by Jacques Dutronc

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Paul Feig is dancing around his living room to the 1960s French pop song “Les Cactus,” by Jacques Dutronc

Writer, filmmaker and creator of Freaks and Geeks, Bridesmaids, Spy and A Simple Favor, Feig is wearing thick-rimmed spectacles, a black velvet smoking jacket and a conspicuously false mustache. With a slightly manic enthusiasm befitting an improvised live broadcast, Feig explains he wanted to pair his Vieux Carré—a cocktail with a French name—with a French song. He says he donned the mustache because he thought it evoked French-ness. Every day at 5 p.m. for the past three weeks, Feig has been dressing up, dancing around his Burbank home and mixing drinks as “Drunk Funcle,” a persona he’s developed over the...

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