On the occasion of his return to Quebec stages with the show You’re Gonna Laugh 2, following the famous bilingual one-man show with which he toured for four years, La Presse invited comedian Sugar Sammy, who Directing a Day of the Arts and His Section.
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A Word from the Director: Why Sugar Sammy?
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Meeting of Sugar Sammy with the La Presse Arts and Being team
“Do you think we can laugh about anything? To this question from a reader, Sugar Sammy replies in the simplest of terms, not without comic effect: “Yes. “This assurance that we can make fun of anything is something the comedian has made into a program of sorts. That partly explains why he’s so disturbing, but also why his politically incorrect jokes often inspire liberating hilarity.
Great Interview: Independence According to Sugar Sammy
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Sugar Sammy in the studio at La Presse
At the start of 2020, Sugar Sammy was gearing up for his big comeback in Quebec. I had heard it in New York at Carolinas on Broadway. I was just as comfortable telling them their four truths as I was in Paris, where I had seen him in the small room at Point Virgule in 2016, when he was still completely unknown to the French public. Barely a year after the 2015 attacks, he had dared to tell them: “France is my favorite Arab country,” and it’s crazy how people laughed.
The political interview with Sugar Sammy: If you like well, you punish well
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Sugar Sammy
Language, culture, secularism, systemic racism, identity, sovereignty. Political discussion between our columnist and our guest director.
Sugar Sammy answers our readers
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Sugar Sammy
In a call to all posted on La Presse’s Instagram account and website, we asked you what questions you’d like to ask Sugar Sammy. Here are the comedian’s answers to some of our readers’ questions.
Sugar Sammy’s Montreal
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Sugar Sammy at Tropical Paradise Restaurant
If Sugar Sammy grew up in the Côte-des-Neiges district, almost ten years ago he bought a house in the village of Monkland in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.