Comedian Gad Elmaleh Hosts Weekly Jazz Radio Show During Pandemic

"Gad wanted to talk to us, to talk to you, so that we can share with him and all together a unique moment. So it was only natural that we gave him a microphone and headphones," the radio station says. On Saturday, the comedian hosted the fifth episode of his show "Gad partagé". This weekly meeting on TSF Jazz, which started during confinement, will continue until June.

The show is recorded live from his son’s room, or his own, reports Le Parisien. Gad Elmaleh shares with the station’s listeners his love for "musicians who have accompanied him all his life". These include Claude Nougaro for whom he said he has boundless admiration, Michel Petrucciani, Frank Sinatra...

"In fact, I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I think I wasn’t good enough, not enough rigor or not enough talent," he confides to the listeners. "When I was little, I had a piano in the garage," the comedian recalls. "I don’t know why it was there, maybe my parents thought I wasn’t playing well enough to put it in the house. And that piano was a kind of good luck charm; it accompanied me everywhere. In Morocco, in Quebec, in France, in Los Angeles, in New York and it came back to Paris, where it is also... confined."