I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don't know me. It's great. It's only winning - if I bomb, they just say, 'Oh, the French guy sucks.' But if I do well, then they remember me.
When they don't know you, when you don't have credits and they're thinking, 'I don't know this French guy,' your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it's not easy.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
