How Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic

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Before his filmmaking career took off, Benny Safdie performed stand-up comedy under the persona of Ralph Handel, an alleged banker who did open mics after work. In a 2006 YouTube clip, Safdie, then 20 years old and dressed as an office drone, deliberately bombs a six-minute set that feels like an hour, never revealing his truehellip;read more raquo;