Symbolic anniversary of the Marrakech of laughter: the festival created by Jamel Debbouze celebrates its tenth edition this weekend, after two vintages canceled due to Covid-19. While he himself celebrates his 47th birthday, the comedian is satisfied with having “brought his little stone to the building” of coexistence in the columns of the Parisian. And she wants to tear down the clichés that weigh on young immigrants.
“I hope with all my heart that others continue to make people laugh. It is very important for the health of the French,” she said. When asked what he wants to build with humor, Jamel Debbouze replies:
“Open sights, against any form of obscurantism (…) We were raised on a carpet of division, of opposition, we were the first to laugh at that, to find it ridiculous. If you only knew how much we love France, we, children of immigrants , how much is not an issue, how grateful we are that she educated us, took care of us, allowed us to live from our passion.
“With humor we build a bridge to get over the indifference that our parents suffered, that we suffered a little,” he continues. “The France that I know from having visited it is not at all racist.”
“The Jamel Comedy Club is political”
Some statements that come two months after presidential elections marked by a meteoric rise of the extreme right, with 23.15% of the vote for Marine Le Pen and 7.07% of the vote for Éric Zemmour in the first round . The daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen is inclined to her second tour face to Emmanuel Macron, not sans récolter 41.45% de suffrages, et al effectué une percée historiques aux législatives de juin lorsque le Rassemblement national a raflé 89 sièges al ‘National Assembly. Figures that Jamel Debbouze puts into perspective:
“I can’t believe that one out of every two French people is a lepenista. But surely there is one out of every two French people in poverty (…) The Jamel Comedy Club, on the stages of the Zéniths de France, is political. Blacks, Arabs, feujs and whites, Portuguese, Chinese, small, large, ugly, beautiful… It’s politics.”
Source: BFM TV
