Moroccan - Comedian | April 19, 1971 -
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
Gad Elmaleh
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America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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It's liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me as a public figure, that I talk about in English.
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It's a time where every country and every human should be united. I mean, every country has its problems.
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When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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