Happy New Year all of you swell World in Words listeners! May your upcoming new year be full of fun — wait, make that multilingual hilarity. To help kick things off the World in Words is going to leave you with one of our favorite interviews from the archives with the multilingual comedian, Samir Khullar AKA Sugar Sammy. He grew up in Quebec speaking Punjabi, Hindi, French and English and he now does stand-up in all four languages. Patrick Cox sat down with him back in 2013.
CONTENTS
00:37 Listen for the answer to last week’s “name that accent” quiz
1:18 Gad Elmaleh, French stand-up comedian dabbles in English
2:18 The multilingual, multitalented comic, Eddie Izzard
4:14 Meet Samir Khullar AKA Sugar Sammy
5:47 How Sugar Sammy first started his comedy career at school
6:35 Why Sugar Sammy decided to do a bilingual comedy show
7:09 Bridging Anglophone and Francophone culture
9:26 Did Sugar Sammy’s ethnicity make it easier for him to poke fun at both Anglophone and Francophone cultures?
11:00 How does speaking different languages affect the comedy? Does funny translate?
14:00 National Endowment of the Humanities funding credit and the “name that accent” quiz for next week.
MUSIC
“Re Bop” by Marie et les Garçons