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Garrett writes all his own material which centers on everyday situations, from the trouble he runs into because of his height, to living in a family with a long line of divorces, to odd jobs he's held while trying to earn a living, to relationships and being single in the '80s. "My material is all G- rated," he says. "I'm very clean. I was always determin- ed to stay clean and I think that's helped in getting the work. I love a nasty, dirty joke as well as anybody, but work- ing that way limits you. Once you start that way you have to remain that way." Much of the basis of his joke telling revolves around his early beginnings and his roots. Example: "My mom is 5'4" and the woman is still in traction from my birth. Com- ing home that day from the hospital, I drove." Of course he's just kidding, but is quick to add that he was raised by funny people. "I think most Jews have a great sense of humor. And, after growing tip in the kind of family I did — even with all the meshugas of the divorces and moving and all that — we still remained close. My parents never frowned on my going into show business. They were never negative but always supportive. And I couldn't have done it without their support because they mean so much to me." Garrett added that he believes it's the family unit that puts Jews into comedy. "A lot of peple say it's from the years of suffering but I wouldn't know about that — except the fact that I have four parents, three in escrow. After growing up the way I did, Jewish comedy's kind of redundant." Garrett's sense of humor seems to pervade everything he does. In fact, he's one of the few comedians in the business Garrett looks at everyday life for his comedy material. today who doesn't seem to mind hecklers. "I love when an audience joins in," he volunteers. "Look, the way I figure it is when you're doing stand-up you're doing emo- tional skydiving anyway, so you might as well go for it. There are ways to handle hecklers. I look at a heckler as someone who really wants to do what you're doing but just can't get up there on stage. So if you see him that way you can really turn him around in a wonderful way." Now, well established as one of comedy's top young stars, Garrett still found be- ing one of its "biggest" and most versatile talents a too often humbling experience. "Buying shoes is always unbelievably embarrassing for me," he noted. "You feel like a jerk when you go to the shoe store and the shoe you need is on top of the cash register as a joke. Here they are raffling business cards out of the heel!" ❑ Israel Documentary Focues On Woes ANDREW SILOW CARROLL L ate into the third hour of "Shattered Dreams," a new documentary by Victor Schonfeld, Israeli peace activist Yael Lotan im- agines a tour of modern Israel conducted for the benefit of her deceased father, who spent time in British jails dreaming of a Jewish state. There would be much to make her father proud, she admits, from the densely populated cities to the technological and agricul- tural accomplishments of the last 40 years. Lotan then recites a litany of Israel's woes, and wonders to herself what he would make of the "other" Israel. What would a founding father make of the fact that Israel has never known peace, rules over 1.5 million Arabs, discriminates against its non- Jewish minority, she asks. How would he respond to Israel's economic dependence on the United States, its pariah status among nations, its support through arms sales of the world's darkest, most reactionary regimes? If faced with the specter of Kahaneism, of racism, or of a welfare state reneging on its promises, would faher have fought the fight he did? Would he have dreamed the dream? That unthikable question lies at the heart of Schonfeld's massive documentary, subtitl- ed "Picking Up the Pieces," which was filmed during a post-Lebanon, pre-uprising nine-month period between 1985 and 1986.