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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
Americans don’t like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
It’s a time where every country and every human should be united. I mean, every country has its problems. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
When they don’t know you, when you don’t have credits and they’re thinking, ‘I don’t know this French guy,’ your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it’s not easy. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
It’s only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right? Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
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. Gad Elmaleh Read Quote
