It is unfortunately too late for the 2023 edition to see the light of day. But everything suggests that the 2024 edition will be held in a brand new Badii palace! Indeed, it was with great difficulty, in March 2023, that Jamel Debbouze announced the cancellation of this year’s “Marrakech du Rire”. M6which has been broadcasting the event since 2011, confirmed the news via a statement.
“The organizers of the Marrakech Laughter Festival and the M6 Group announce the postponement of the 2023 edition of the Festival given the restoration work of the Badii Palace, thus preventing the reception of spectators this year”lamented the chain before specifying: “It is with regret but also out of attachment to the identity of the Festival that it has been decided to postpone it, no other site can replace this emblematic place which saw the birth and growth of the Festival”.
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Two cancellations for Jamel Debbouze in ten years
A situation that Jamel Debbouze and the teams have already experienced, when the Covid-19 pandemic was raging in 2020. At that time, Mélissa Theuriau’s companion once again had to cancel the edition. “It was a great pleasure to celebrate with you the tenth edition of Marrakech du rire. We wanted to make it an extraordinary moment. As you know, this festival is particularly close to my heart, I have been putting a lot of energy into it for years. and passion”he had dropped, very reassembled.
The artist then concluded: “Unfortunately, faced with too many uncertainties, linked to this asshole-virus, and an impossibility to prepare in good conditions, it is with great regret that we are forced to cancel this June 2020 edition”.
Jamel Debbouze happy, the work of the Badii Palace is progressing well!
It was during this period that the “Marrakech of Laughter” 2023 should have held. Jamel Debbouze knows this well and it is for this reason that he went to the city located in Morocco. Indeed, this Sunday, June 18, the 48-year-old comedian shared several photos and videos of his day spent in Marrakech, with a passage on the side of the Badii Palace.
We see the artist, yellow vest on his shoulders, strolling through the Palace construction site, with a caption that says a lot about his ambition and his determination for his show to return: “Always so sumptuous. Thought of the Festival teams and festival-goers. And full of strength to the teams for the works”.
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