Interview with comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh in the columns of the weekly Paris Match published at the end of November. This, on the occasion of the start of a long tour.
Among the subjects raised, accusations of plagiarism. I have my share of responsibility in this plagiarism story, he says, adding that it represents so little compared to everything he has written. “About twenty years ago, a lot of colleagues and I took a lot of inspiration from the Americans and took some little jokes from them. I assume. I was pilloried for that, but my career did not suffer, and above all, this affair taught me a lot of things about the profession and my friends.
It allowed him to do the major cleaning, he reveals, specifying that that does not prevent certain comedians who spat on him from coming back today to ask him to open for the Dôme de Paris… “ It’s not that they don’t have face, they just forgot. They are not evil or ill-intentioned. They just expressed what felt right in the moment. »
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