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" Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals. "
People
Morocco
Like
" After New York, Chicago is my favorite city. It's just this great mix of Europe and America. The friends I have there are smart and witty and fun. "
Fun
Great
Witty
" 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. "
You
Want
Job
" Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany. "
Like
Puns
Words
" Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't. "
Serious
Laugh
Either
" Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it's good to be efficient and sharp, and to have a joke every twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and dry. "
Good
Better
American
" 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. "
America
Go
Learn
" I did movies because I was flattered and for money and because I wanted to kiss Sophie Marceau. "
Because
Wanted
Movies
" I discovered that it's not really about the language. It's about how the words are pronounced and the delivery. We have plenty of good English-speaking comedians. It's O.K. if I have my accent, my gestures, my way of speaking. "
Way
Language
Words
" I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor. "
Clown
Feel
Humor
" If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing. "
English
Back
France
" If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to a bigger audience. "
Comedy
Story
World
" I go to New York to see live shows, not movies. "
New
New York
Movies
" I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh. "
People
Passion
Comedy
" I love coming to New York. I think I'm going to come really often here. I need to - for the show, for the comedy. I want to do the shows here and have a beer and hang out with the comedians. "
New
Think
New York
" 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. "
Love
Expectations
Me
" In America, going on a date is really more like 'interview night.' You have to give your resume. "
America
Resume
Interview
" In France, I'm not going to say the audience will laugh for nothing, but you could compare the response I get to the response Louis CK or Chris Rock would get if they go up in a club in Denver tonight. "
Say
You
Audience
" 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. "
America
Love
World
" It's a good time to be here in America. You feel that people just want to be together and release the pressure and laugh. "
Good
America
Together
" It's a time where every country and every human should be united. I mean, every country has its problems. "
Human
Time
Problems
" 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. "
Never
Where
Talk
" It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right? "
Right
Church
Debut
" I want to talk to the audience. This is what I've been doing in my work in French forever - talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things. "
Little Things
Small
Small Things
" 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.' "
House
Thought
She
" 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. "
Me
Life
Sex
" 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. "
Famous
Back
Alive
" 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. "
Look
New
Dream
" 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. "
Me
Name
Reality
" That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France. "
Doors
French
France
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