Gad Elmaleh returns to New York on April 11 for a performance. He is very attached to this American city, where he lived before. “In my opinion, it’s the Mecca of stand-up. This is where stand-up comedy was born. This is the city where my idols like Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld live,” he said in an interview with the site. The small newspaper. There, the comedian also realized his dream of playing in English, of being in comedy clubs, of doing talk shows and of running my sketches every day. “I lived there for three years. This city really speaks to me, I have real ties there. I’m so fascinated by Broadway and all of its culture. It’s really incredibly inspiring to me,” he added.
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The comedian recently traveled to New York to prepare for his show. “A few weeks ago, I went to see Jerry Seinfeld at the Beacon Theater in New York. I had a form of nostalgia for this theater that I already did in French, a very long time ago, he confided. In the meantime, there had been the show in English – at Carnegie Hall in particular – the clubs and the talk show. I wanted to redo this room because it is very large, but very warm. The project for the show in English was a different thing from what I do now. This time, Elmaleh will play in French in front of French-speaking expatriates.
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“I say francophones, because in New York, when we say francophone, there are the vast majority of French people, but there are still the Maghreb, Africa, the Lebanese, the Swiss, etc. The Francophonie is honored in this kind of evenings, and I love this idea. Contrary to the tension there was when I was performing in English, where I put myself in more danger, I feel that there is a form of comfort in performing in my language in front of an audience with which I really make New York happy,” he explained.
