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I laughed on french door. Because in France, doors opening like that it's calling "Ouverture à l'anglaise". "English door" It's the same for a lot of expression, for example : "Take French leave". In french people say : "Filer à l'anglaise" "Take English leave".
We french also love to put "Chinese" on things. Casse-tête chinois ("Chinese puzzle"), baguettes chinoises ("Chinese sticks"), billard chinois ("Chinese snooker" ?), chapeau chinois ("Chinese hat"), and even friggin' ombres chinoises ("Chinese shadows"). NONE OF THESE ARE ACTUALLY CHINESE, FFS
On dit plutôt filer comme un j....non j'ai rien dit...
@@d.t9367 juif?
D.T jamais entendu cette expression lol
Dans le genre, y'a "dindon": en anglais on l'appelle "poulet turc", en Turquie on l'appelle "poulet indien", au pays catalan on l'appelle "poulet gallois" etc, apparemment c'est dû au fait que cet animal paraît exotique à toutes les cultures, tout le monde se rejette la faute hihi
Le mec il a tellement progressé dans sa carrière. Il commence chez Conan et ensuite, 1 mois plus tard, il finit chez Mcfly et Carlito. C'est beau
TON CHIEN EST MOCHE
Le vrai rêve americain
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@@Slashy_is_real ily
@@Slashy_is_real already done... twice
Il parait loin le temps du "Bryan is in the kitchen" et "the sister of Bryan is in the bathroom" ^^
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il a enormement progresse. il s est donne ce challenge, bravo quoi
Franchement je suis pas un fan de Gad Elmaleh mais en anglais il m'as l'air vraiment drôle
what is that dude?
@@micha299685 from his first show "l'autre c'est moi" you can find it on yt with subtitles ;)
His delivery is incredibly good for English being his second language. Comedic timing is spot on
In fact is his third language. He speaks Arabic, French and English
Actually it's 4th. He also speaks Hebrew
He lived 17 years in Morocco so he speaks arabic and little of berber ( moroccan second language ) and then french and english
Just a bunch of toddlers browsing or whatever...
For some reason
LOL))))))
😂
Maybe for some reason those toddlers are on vaCAYtion.
I'll sum it up: Just a bunch of toddlers browsing some stuff for some reason
Don't know this guy but he does make sense.
loveforeignaccents he’s a French humorist very famous in France
yes very famous for not being funny.
Moroccan humorist who lives in France
Fark he had a great success in France you can’t deny that
Humour is subjective so you not liking him doesn't make him "not funny." He is extremely popular in France so clearly many people think he is popular. Obviously if you think you can do better, go and d it and makes millions as he has.
I like this man. He made me laugh.
He's the funniest French comedian we have :)
Not at all! He is far from being the funniest...
at least, there are a bunch of comedians that can handle a subtler show!
Léo Estany sorry let me rephrase that, he’s the comedian that has made me laugh the most. Mais si t’as d’autre comédien que tu peux me recommender je suis pour!
yodathedeathshadow hum... Alexandre Astier is soooooo much better in absolutely EVERYTHING.
Omg, I'm French and used to see his shows on tv, and he's already so funny in French, but in English he is so funny as well !
Conan in Morocco with Gad !! Pls make it happen !!!
El khaladi Mohamed lol hey man
Safae berdey 'sup dawg ?
who you calling dawg ? !!
lol did u jst try to hit on her? bro , u r so Moroccan haha. Takin advantage of every opportunity u get! Goddspeed!
Patrick J no man, i didn't say "nice pic hhhh" lol
I like that quote (wish I could remember the linguist) that, "English is just french poorly pronounced."
derrincason Georges Clémenceau
Nah, French is more like awkwardly pronounced Spanish. English is Germanic. (Yes I get the joke, but it actually would apply better to French/Spanish than English/French because English and French belong to different branches of the Indo-european family. Hence English pronunciation and our immensely easier verb conjugation etc)
I think you missed the point.. A fair majority of the english vocabulary (British English more than American) comes from french even though english is Germanic. The fact that there are lots of practically identical words that just have different pronunciations despite being from different branches is what makes the quote applicable/funny. French and Spanish are both romance languages so indeed similarities are to be expected so it isn't really in my opinion a better example, as far as I'm aware there are mainly just similar words rather than words that are actually the same (I don't know Spanish so don't hold me to it!).
@@-music2023 English comes from French, and French comes from Latin. Check it up.
This cotation has been said by the femous linguist Michel Thomas harrap's
*For some reason, a bunch of toddlers were browsing* 🤣🤣
L'enfoiré, il gère vraiment bien l'Anglais, c'était pas pour faire genre... balèze parce que l'humour dans ces deux langues n'est vraiment pas pareil. Rien que le fait de réussir à faire des jeux de mots dans une autre langue...
Il a bien dit qu'il l'a appris un an avant.... il ne parlait pas comme ça avant
Baptiste M Hé oui mais ça les gens ne le comprennent pas. Ils s’imaginent qu’il suffit de baraguiner un peu d’anglais et de traduire ses sketchs français vers l’anglais pour que ça marche. Ils sont loin du compte. Il a dû bosser comme une bête pour arriver à ce niveau.
C'est clair !
Gigi Adam faux, il n'y a qu'à regarder math podcast Pour se rendre compte Du jeu d'enfant. C'est pas de l'allemand l'anglais
Petit panier d'osier Si c’était si facile explique moi pourquoi on ne voit davantage d’humoristes de langue française essayer de faire carrière aux USA. Et je suis sûr qu’ils sont nombreux à avoir envie de le faire. Un public plus large et sans doute désireux de voir de nouvelles têtes
Les francais présent manifestez vous !
Non.
Ta gueule.
zoubab triste de voir des gens comme toi
The Boogeyman encore un gamin de 14 ans qui se croit malin derrière un écran
The Boogeyman c’est ce que je dis tu fais le malin derrière ton téléphone mais tu n’aurais jamais le courage de dire ce que tu pense en face
Great artist, I have been following him for a while on KZhead when I need a laughter. Does not disappoint. Bravo for taking the challenge to do comedy in English. Good luck to him.
Am I the only one who thinks Conan is acting hella salty?
Nope, I noticed it at well, he looks bored. It could be nothing though since it's just a 4 minutes segment of the full show... Or maybe he doesn't like Gad
True
actually maleh means salty in arabic
Only Bill Burr can satisfy Conan, Gad is good here but far from Bill's level.
quite possible. OR you may have been stoned and over thinking things. Cheers!
Best Moroccan comic!! Proud of you!
I am a big fan of Gad, I watch his comedies in Arabic and French, but this is the first time I hear him speaking in English. Wow is my reaction, he is so good.
whoever this man is, he is somewhat sort of pretty much funny
I there what you did see....
He is one of our Most famous humorist in France, like maybe THE most famous of the past ten years. This guy is good ;)
He's a superstar in France.
You have no idea😂😂😂
prolly funnier than all the american comedian you know by far
Gal is so amazing! And SO happy his comedy special Gad Gone Wild was translated lol
oh Gad typically Moroccan sense of humour. ..much laugh toddler lol i have the same prob with that word we can say me ...derri sghiir mama sghiir 9ddach me to9rebn chi 22 3am mama 22 3am sghiir .. llah ymskhek the same confusion lol chapeau Gad
he's french though
he's moroccan, french and canadian
Michael tricoli Nah he’s Moroccan
Lââh Bëèlle Gòöwss Tmtcèèy x'D Thought he was Indian
stay for good I can totally feel your struggle 22 3am mazalo sghir 3andna 😂😂
So glad he's finding success on the other side of the Atlantic ! I grew up with his stand up comedy and it's so great to see him evolving.
So Gad !
The frensh doors story got me laughing so hard 😂😂😂😂
Love this guy dude!
As an American who lived in France most of my life, I can relate to absolutely everything he says. It’s wonderful
I love all of it though. "For some reason" is so deep if u really think hard.
It's funny when he mentions Americans don't "meet you halfway" in terms of language. I grew up in France as an American and if you pronounced something with even the SLIGHTEST accent they had trouble understanding. So it goes both ways.
Yeah but then are French people really the example you wanna follow?
I think this is just the human condition. I’ve met this same struggle when speaking different languages and I’ve met others who share the same sentiments.
Yup that's true. But it's also true in the US. Sometimes I'd say a word and people would take time to understand or I'd spell it and they'd repeat it almost like I said.
Once i traveled to Paris after spending months in the states. I walk into a starbucks and order a cappuccino 'decaf'.The guy says "Vous voulez dire un Deca?". Not that he didn't understand...He absolutely had to correct me! It was kind of rude :)
I'm Franco-spanish. My mom has a very slight Spanish accent. After 30 years in France a lot of people still" don't understand" her. She ended up telling a GP to make an effort and to just listen. On her next visit he apologised to her. Moreover when people heard she had an accent they often start baby-talking to her. I studied in the UK for three years and was treated that way by a Londoner with a really thick accent. But that was the only time it happened to me.
Trop fière de toi bro, ta réussi, bsahtek the success. Bravo Gad El Maleh. xx :-)
I love Gad 😍😍😍😍 he is so funny I didnt know he could talk french so good... 👍👍👍👍👍
This guy is on a good movie called “priceless” it’s actually on KZhead with english subtitles.
Tellement fière de Gad qui représente la France. So proud of Gad who represents France ❤
Gad El Maleh is a legend in France , you guys are so lucky to have him in your country. Proud of you Gad !
It's perfect 😂 I'm French living in the US for 11 years. I hope i can see his show one day as i never did in France
I lost it with "toddlers" 😂
For those who don't know this man he the most famous and greatest comedian in Europe, I'm French myself and believe me when I say that he's totally outblowing, go watch some of it's work he is totally worthy.
He really is so funny, to be this smart funny in another language is difficult. But he is!!!
Great analysis of the language. Interesting to see from other perspective
It's like the spirit of George Carlin lives on
Last time I heard him in an interview, he talked about french windows in LA.
I don't know who this guy is, but everything he said about English was on point.
I love him and his jokes so much
I love hearing stuff like this! 😂
it's so true !!!! He's a great comedian in france and he's so right for toddler !!!!!
toddler in french : Bambin "great comedian" pffffrrr
Gad is going international now I love it. On est fier de toi Gad!
فنان صاعد بكل ما تحمل الكلمة من معنى تحية خالصة لجاد من ناس طنجة كاملين انت متعة المشاهدة
J'ADORE LES SUSHI!
Ce gars est un génie...de pouvoir se lancer dans un autre genre d'humour avec une culture si différente...waw
This is his Netflix Special in a Nutshell 🤦🏻♂️
yeeeaah gad big up from morrocco bro!
OMG !! I'm half english, half french. And this was sooo good. I totally get everything he's saying ❤️❤️❤️ btw in France this guy is one of the most famous humorists.
YOU LIKE HIM , OH NICE PLEASE KEEP HIM; THANKS
as an american i say vay-cation just putting that out there lmao
Naomi Gary good keep it up dont let anyone tell you otherwise ;)
You're probably from the west coast though, he lives in NY.
Naomi Gary.. those brows are fierce!
This is how we say it in New York City also: vay-kay-shun. He probably experienced this by misplacing the emphasis on one vowel, i.e. vay-ki-shun and vi-kay-shun, versus both of the first two vowels, i.e. vay-kay-shun.
Naomi Gary it's water not warer
Gad one of the best humorists I've ever watched. I loved all his shows in French can't wait to watch the ones he is making in english 😍
plagiat
@@GreenEnvy. Qui a plagiat?
Excellent. 👌
2:05 : Browsing = Je regarde juste. Very simple indeed.
That's not what browsing is. Browsing is looking, but includes the possibility of buying something if you happen to like it or if it makes sense, or if you find what you were hoping to buy at some point but didn't until that moment where you stumble across what you wanted. "Just looking" means you're definitely not going to buy something, so there's a difference (in English at least).
@@Mis4nthropist Bah bien sûr, mais la nuance est toujours un peu différente. C'est ça la beauté d'apprendre une autre langue.
like " I have places to go"
Hahaha Gad is great :) Liked him in everything I've seen him in so far :>
Love Gad!
He speaks like that after A YEAR of learning English? WTF IS JACKIE CHAN AND CRAZY RUSSIAN HACKER (on KZhead) DOING? Hahahaha. It has to be a part of their persona. :p
Russians and the Chinese do not use the latin alphabet, so no, it's not their persona, it's their conflicting pronunciations and grammar.
This. Some actors intentionally maintain their grammatical errors and foreign pronunciation because it’s a part of their persona. Idk about Jackie chan or crazy Russian hacker, but Sofia Vergara actually has a speaking coach who helps maintain her Hispanic accent
He's been speaking English for years, and just like for his comedy and his instrument skills he worked very hard, paid expensive coaches and pretends it's a natural talent. He even maintains a light french/morrocan accent on purpose.
Dude Jackie Chan is from Hong Kong where English is the official language, it's just an English different from the American one like Indian English or Singaporean English.
40% of English words have French origin, so it's easier for him to learn it.
This man is who the French call a "plagiat."
Green Envy #COPYCOMIC. it’s a shame he steals material and the public falls for it....
I don't remember when it was the last time that happened but i had to cry from laughing so hard😂😂😂
Magnifique une grande évolution bravo mec
my friend lives in america and even he doesn't even speak such good english as this guy learned in a year
He didn't say he learned it in one year, he told he worked on it with a private teacher.
@@Nhilzer He learned in one year. He didn't know ANY English whatsoever before this.
IT IS IN THE GENES!!
The french could be very fluent in english. It's just their accent is very strong most of the time
Thats the difference between american and british English, british english is very precise, convoluted at times, and not lazy at all, while American english is much more practical, made for everyday, with a much more limited vocabulary than british english so you don't get instantly class pinpointed while speaking. In England just for the accent and vocabulary you can instantly now if this person belongs to a certain class (obviously there are exceptions, but not many)
You're right - American English is definitely vague, which causes problems in debate. But yeah, British English is very wordy. Every language has its strengths and weaknesses both in rule and implementation, and language and culture are closely tied together.
Jsui vraiment ravie pour Gad Elmaleh, il a bosser comme un fou pour arriver la ! bravo 'wesh'
This gave me life as a linguistics student 🤣
Who did he steal that from this time?
proud french fan ❤️
Pourquoi fière? Il est marocain pas français
Ben si, il est aussi Canadien.
music 2019 i know 😂 i was born in france that's why
mdr tg il est français bolosse
Michael tricoli techniquement il est d'abord marocain.. Ensuite canadien puis seulement après français.. Ça fait beaucoup je trouve mais bon.. Je crois même qu'il a la nationalité monegasque.. Manque plus que la nationalité israélienne (s'il l'a pas déjà) puis américaine et sa collection serait complète...
Freaking love Gad❤️ fière de toi mon grand
We love you Gad!!!!
Just imagine: Conan and Gad in Morocco bathing in a Hammam 🐒
Aech armyyyy
😍😍
Last time I was this early my hopes and dreams were still alive
Lmaoooo damn man.
the first one of these that ever to make me laugh
and so was 2Pac
I missed you Male7 😖😖💕💕
A bunch of toddlers😂 I could never understand What a toddler is , I Just know is someone between a baby and a child
I think you mean "between an infant and a small kid". They're all children
he's even funny in english !!! wow a model for every french speaking people learning to finally get a handle on english
"Bunch of stuff" 😂 Oh my Gad! 😅
Il me fait rire en francais et en anglais il est vraiment doué, tu nous manque Gad!
I like how in French you say "You are missing to us." instead of "We miss you."
I think the Germans could more accurately be said to have words for everything, and to use far fewer words to express something. They make up entirely new, incredibly long words for very specific things. They include fifteen descriptors in the word itself.
That's sort of true. Far fewer words but far more letters and syllables.
English has A LOT of words. I really like how concise you can be with English, when in French you need sentences (although it can be fun to play with french sentences and different ways of formulating things)
In German, one word can be made from many others pasted together.
Right. That's what I was saying.
LexiL Sify It's a double-edged sword though. English has more practical words, so you can be concise and more straight-forward. But French has usually more ways to describe things, and you can express feelings, sensations or something conceptual more easily. I think that's also why in English you have a lot of french expressions/words used (like "deja vu" and such).
What's the difference between because of some reason s I didn't come and im not coming and saying nothing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
amazing so happy to see Gad making it outside France. I grew up with Gad during the 90s...awesome dude he was married to the daughter of the princess of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi my teenage crush !
HE NAMED HIS KID RAPHAEL. MY FATHER'S NAME,COMMON IN THE ELMALEH FAMILY
Omg he's so much fun 😂
Mec "browsing" c'est juste "je regarde"
Et "a bunch of stuff" c'est juste "un tas de trucs"
C'est un peu plus complexe, browning c'est regarder beaucoup d'articles + y réfléchir
@@roxy20231000 et quand tu dis "je regarde" tu y réfléchis pas toi?
@@topheye6318 y a des gens qui scollent passivement, qui regardent sans vraiment regarder pour passer le temps
@@topheye6318 Comme il dit, le mot browsing signifie une phrase entière, c'est comme si nous avions une phrase en un seul mot. Là-bas ça signifie: j'observe puis je réfléchis et je verrais ensuite car je ne sais pas encore => browsing Voilà pourquoi c'est bizarre pour nous, c'est pas commode du tout.
Conan Producers: So, you have any funny stories to tell on the show? Elmaleh: Nah, i'm just going to recycle the jokes from my netflix especial.
you always have to find a reaso, to hate on someone it's crazy to me like why? does it change your life? he's doing it for people to want to Watch more of him, so is netflix special
Everyone does that. If you like not Listen not Watch not Comment not.
Indeed everyone does that, including Bill Burr, his favorite.
For 1 year, his English is amazing.
love from Morocco
I still don't know what the hell a Swedish massage is.
My Grandmother used to give me them to me. It involved karate chopping me rapidly against my will. Seriously. Don't accept the offer of one.
it consist of someone dismembering you then reassembling you into a more convenient shape like an Ikea furniture
Oh OK. I always thought it was some kind of massage followed by sex or something.
peculiarlittleman I don't think we got any choice here in Sweden. (Well, we got Thai places here too, but that style I know more about lol....)
A massage is a massage is a massage. Swedish (european) is more profound than californian, there is kneading/petrissage, serious rubbing and it is shorter. It does not involve karate-chopping. I have tried some massages, however, some are very light and impersonal (lomi-lomi is hawaian and underwhelming if you ask me. It uses the forearms but very lightly, or that's what I had anyway)
Question a nos amis vivant aux US, ses nouvelles blagues sont de lui ou de quelqu'un d'autre ?!
Il faut que tu parles Anglais, Ducon. La, aucun Americain a compris ce que tu as dit🤣🤣
Mdr t'es un clown
Love you Gad💞💞💞💞
I'm French and I know him very well, he's a famous comedian, really funny, i am so surprised his English is THAT good only in 1 year of studying, I hope he'll make it far in the States
He had lived in Canada before he moved to France. His family immigrated from Morocco to Canada when he was 15, and lived there for some years before immigrating to France.
Gad made up the fact that americans have words for everything, I'm french and I love the english language ( btw I studied linguistics at university) but we can't deny that the french language is more precise in term of words, that's a fact, and it's part of the fact that enlgish is easier to learn than french. Damn, even tho, we french people are getting bad at our own language and spelling that's a bit sad, for example it's like 3/4 americans would write '' your fantastic'' instead of you're. anyway, of course there are words for what he said, a few examples: browsing : lèche-vitrines toddler : bambin bunch of stuff : quelques trucs/des trucs ( this was a ridiculous one, of course we have a saying like that too..) For some reason: it's juste an expression, both languages have a lot of expressions that don't add anything to a sentence but we say it anyway, I would bet it's in every language) [Ps] Ps: Gad Elmaleh was really great and funny 15 years ago, now he became the ''watchmojo'' of french humour, I'm not raging, just saying my opinion, to me it's podcast humour, pointing ''obvious'' and normal things to make people think '' hey, that happend to me too, that's funny'' , not that much imo... Kisses from france xxxx
I'm studying linguistics too and it's a fact that the English language as more vocabulary, while the French language has more words that have different meanings, so English is actually more precise and more factual. Also, English isn't really easier, you can easily pick up the basics because the grammar is pretty simple, but the pronounciation is actually much more difficult to deduce from the written words than it is in French, and there are A LOT of combinations of words you can't deduce the meaning of even if you know all of them separately. Each language has its own difficulties, and it also depends a lot of what your native language is.
@@EthelBH "its own difficulties" NOT "it's own difficulties".
@@beneu95 thanks for pointing it out.
C’est quoi le problème des français avec Gad ? Je comprends pas. Même avant cette histoire de pseudo plagiat les gens commencent à le critiquer et sur les plateaux français, il n’à pas l’air à l’aise, comme si il se sentait juger. Que s’est il passé ? C’est le fait qu’il soit parti au USA ?
ce sont des jaloux, des mecs stressés et frustrés avec un boulot de merde, et qui n'ont aucun autre moyen de décharger les tensions et inhibitions qu'ils accumulent que de hurler sur internet. Ils sont aussi victimes de cette culture du clash qui se développe.
Les gens n ont peut être pas apprécié qu il saute une jeune princesse innocente, l engrosse puis la lâche comme une merde..
"une jeune princesse innocente" lol sort un peu des contes de fée. Ta princesse a eu de nombreuses liaisons avec des gens fortunés avant lui. En plus elle n'a pas le titre de princesse.
mais t'as raison vas regarder Kev Adam et Norman, c'est de ton niveau.
Ouais fin au fond il n'y a qu'eu qui savent réellement ce qu'il s'est passé. Et les Français n'en n'ont pas grand chose à foutre de la famille de Monaco.
the best !
That man is fantastic
mddr c'est vraiment bizarre de le voir dans ce show même s'il est déjà venu, je suis tjs surprise 😅
il a surtout bien pompé sur plein de comiques américains ou canadiens
Et toi t'as pompe sur qui a l'ecole🤣🤣
Amazing actor I like his movies very much
Gad Elmaleh has been my favorite comedian for years. I saw him live once at Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland :D I cannot wait to see your show on Netflix, and now I can share you with my husband and friends who are not french speakers, woo!
Conan's face is wtf is he doing here... He doesn't like him one bit😂😂😂😂
He's already invited him before I think. I don't think he dislikes him or he wouldn't invited. Maybe he was just tired that night
Les marocains vous êtes la !!!
Gad, t'es trop fort ! 😂
Very smart guy !
This guy steals jokes. Let that be said.
Bro this guy is really talented, you french people dont like people to succeed, this guy is really really and far the best comedian i've never seen.