Gad Elmaleh Performs Stand Up on Conan

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Wednesday night French Moroccan comedian Gad Elmaleh, who has been called the French Jerry Seinfeld performed stand up on Conan.  Gad has only recently started performing stand up in English and he says he may still be struggling with some language barriers. But he seems to be doing alright, getting multiple applause breaks talking about performing stand up in English, the Statue of Liberty.

By the way, English is Elmaleh’s seventh language. Although the French Jerry Seinfeld moniker has stuck with him (largely because he played the Seinfeld role in the French dub of Bee Movie), Conan is hoping to get the French Coco thing going.

Elmaleh has been taking the US by storm. It was only a last summer that we started hearing Elmaleh’s name- although he was already a huge comedy star in Europe playing 12,000 seat venues, he was virtually unknown to US audiences. An extended residency at Joe’s Pub in New York City led to spots on multiple late night shows (Late Night Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show), a US Theater tour, and an upcoming show at Carnegie Hall in February 2017.

 

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