Gad Elmaleh Returns with Global English-Language Comedy Tour After 6-Year Hiatus

"I’m impatient, I’m nervous, I doubt, but I’m not afraid," confides Gad Elmaleh, talking about his sixth one-man show that is coming out six years after the last one. "Maybe I haven’t been seen, but I’m working all the time. I do a lot of Comedy Club to stay alert, it’s a way not to lose the muscle of comedy. A bit like training at the gym..." explains Gad Elmaleh. "If you don’t play for six years and don’t rub shoulders with comedians, you’re stiff..." he adds.

"D’ailleurs", on tour throughout France starting in September, is the most "intimate" show of his career. He refers to his origins and travels. "I address several themes from the angle of analysis, demystification and truth". The artist’s fans will find his different lives, the American dream (Hollywood and talk shows...), disillusionment, fatherhood, religion, death (he tells how his funeral will take place!), the midlife crisis (approached on a mystical and spiritual level), education, and even part of his life in Monaco, reports bienpublic.com.

In addition to the experience in Monaco, "D’ailleurs" will address the affair that splashed him in 2019. The interpreter of Chouchou was accused of plagiarizing American comedians to write his shows. "Not talking about it at all would be weird. I was shaken by this crisis, because I worked like a madman, it didn’t deserve so much violence. It was a painful episode, but I have a share of responsibility, I shouldn’t have been in pride," he said during this press lunch.

"I can’t do an honest show in line with what I am today and not allude to this episode that was painful and instructive. It made me grow. I did a garage sale of my entourage..." confides Gad Elmaleh, who explains having lost many friends including some intimates for 30 years. "Now I am at peace. These friends who turned their backs on me do not deserve that I be their enemy or angry," says the comedian.