Sugar Sammy, guest director of Arts and Being

On the occasion of his return to Quebec stages with the show you’re gonna laugh 2following the famous one man show bilingual with whom he toured for four years, The Press invited comedian Sugar Sammy to become an Arts and Being section director for a day.

A word from the director: why Sugar Sammy

“Do you think we can laugh at everything? To this question from a reader, Sugar Sammy answers in the simplest way possible, not without comic effect: “Yes. “This assurance that we can make fun of everything, the comedian has made a kind of program. Which partly explains why he’s so disturbing, but also why his politically incorrect jokes often provoke liberating hilarity.

Great Interview: Independence According to Sugar Sammy

At the start of 2020, Sugar Sammy was preparing for his big comeback in Quebec. I had heard it in New York curl American ears at the Carolinas on Broadway. As comfortable telling them their four truths as in Paris, where I had seen him in 2016 in the small room at Point Virgule, when he was completely unknown to the French public. Barely a year after the 2015 attacks, he had dared to say to them: “France is my favorite Arab country”, and it’s crazy how people laughed.

The political interview with Sugar Sammy: who likes well punishes well

Language, culture, secularism, systemic racism, identity, sovereignty. Political discussion between our columnist and our guest director.

Sugar Sammy responds to our readers

In a call to all published on the Instagram account and on the website of The Press, we asked you what questions you would like to ask Sugar Sammy. Here are the comedian’s answers to a sample of questions from our readers.