Moroccan - Comedian | April 19, 1971 -
I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
Gad Elmaleh
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My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
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I did movies because I was flattered and for money and because I wanted to kiss Sophie Marceau.
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Everywhere I go in America, when they learn I'm from France, the first thing they ask me is if I'm a huge Jerry Lewis fan. I've never been able to figure that out.
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It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?
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I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don't know me. It's great. It's only winning - if I bomb, they just say, 'Oh, the French guy sucks.' But if I do well, then they remember me.
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I talk about my dad and the American dream, and I just want to say to Americans how fascinated we are by America. We would love Americans to look at the rest of the world that way sometimes.
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I was in a steak house once, and someone proposed. I was so embarrassed. The woman started crying, and I thought, 'She was just proposed to in a steak house - I'd be crying, too.'
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When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're not rich and famous.
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There's so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I've worked on a few bits about it - not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.
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That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France.
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If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
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