2024-04-08 08:45:00
The comedian is one of the comedians accused of plagiarism by a mysterious Internet user in 2019. A few years after the scandal, he returns to this period.
Gad Elmaleh makes his mea culpa. Six years after being accused of having plagiarized some of his sketches, the comedian admits to having sometimes been inspired by other comedians and regrets the way in which he handled the scandal at the time.
“I should have assumed that I had happened to make fun of Americans,” he declared in an interview published this Monday, April 8 by Telerama.
“Not because I was lacking inspiration – I proved that I had it – but out of ease,” continues the 52-year-old comedian. “Like those who tell the judges ‘I thought it wouldn’t show’.
The one who will travel the roads of France in 2024 and 2025 with a new show, Himself, concludes: “There were several of us caught for plagiarism. But I am the only one to have taken so much. Locked in my pride, I entered into the game, I justified myself. I couldn’t sleep at night. It wasn’t the accusation that hurt me, but the fear that people wouldn’t love me anymore.”
Fear about the comedy industry
Gad Elmaleh is one of the French comedians identified by CopyComic, a mysterious Internet user who shook the world of French humor in 2019. In videos published on YouTube, he pointed out similarities between their sketches and others, more old, American stand-uppers. Tomer Sisley, Thomas Ngijol and Malik Bentalha had undergone the same treatment.
To defend himself, the Hors de prix actor then chose the attack. Refuting the accusations, denouncing the “haters” of social networks, he launched a vendetta against CopyComic. The latter had accused Gad Elmaleh of trying by all means to discover his identity. The comedian also managed to have the compromising videos from X (ex-Twitter) removed by his lawyers, before they reappeared there.
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