CHICAGO — People are weird everywhere. But there’s a specific sort of weirdness that comes to the fore when it’s a small town, where eccentricities seem to exist in high relief. The Fox mockumentary series “Welcome to Flatch,” now in its second season, is all about capturing that.
Paul Feig is one of the show’s executive producers. “Whereas a city is sometimes about how impersonal everything is, a small town is about how personal everything is,” he said. “When (creator) Jenny Bicks and I took it around to different networks, everybody said: You can’t make fun of small towns. And we’re both from small towns, the last thing we would do is make fun of them. We just want to have fun with the people that are in small towns, because we all knew extreme personalities where we lived and those are the most interesting people and the funniest people, too.”
Feig is an actor, writer and producer, but he is probably best known as the director of movies such as “Bridesmaids,” “Spy” and 2016′s “Ghostbusters,” as well as TV shows including “The Office” and “Arrested Development.”
