A must-have comedian of the 80s and 90s, Michel Leeb is now more withdrawn from the media scene. But the actor has not deserted the boards, since he performed this year in the play Les deux pigeons with Francis Huster at the Edouard VII theater. The comedian also went to play on the side of the Canebière in unmentionable on Tuesday November 29, 2022, alongside Anne Jacquemin, Arthur Fenwick, and Alice Raucoules. The opportunity for him to confide in the local newspaper Provence and to mention in particular some of his sketches deemed racist in the past. “ It would be giving the stick to be beaten “, he explains to justify that he no longer replays them.
However, there was nothing aggressive, humiliating in my remarks “, he laments. Before adding: I went to play in Senegal, Morocco, Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the continent. I swear to you that no one has ever given me the slightest thought. And Michel Leeb also remembered another passage in North Africa which particularly marked him. Indeed, he revealed that he met Gad Elmaleh when he was only a young boy.
“One day a very long time ago, I was passing through Casablanca. A little 12-year-old guy came to see me and said, ‘I can’t afford your show. Could you sign me an autograph?. It was him.”, says Tom Leeb’s father in the columns of La Provence. “This paper, he brought it out to me three or four years ago,” he said.
Michel Leeb has also been full of praise for Gad Elmaleh. “I stay on Gad Elmaleh, the only one to do real shows. Then, he is a musician and I like that.“, did he declare. “But I also like Axel Lutz who is very strong. Maxime Gasteuil also. He’s got a gab, a quick wit“, he also said.
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