Gad Elmaleh
Birthday: Born in 1971-04-19 in Casablanca, Morocco
Deathday: Alive
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971) is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, and La Doublure. He is known for his stand-up comedy specials Décalages (1997), La Vie normale (2000), L'autre c'est moi (2005), Papa est en haut (2007), Sans tambour (2013), 20 ans de scène (2015), Oh My Gad (2015), Gad Elmaleh part en live (2016), American Dream (2017), D’Ailleurs (2022).
TV Credits
Quelle époque !
Character: Self - Guest
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En aparté
Character: Self - Guest
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice....
Parler comme jamais
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On est en direct
Character: Self
On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers, and where surprises, and humor are par for the course! It's freedom of speech, with guests coming to speak on the news for debates without filter. It's also an opportunity to discover new talents ......
La Chanson secrète
Character: Self
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Samedi Sébastien
Character: Self - Guest
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Crisis in Six Scenes
Character: Moe
A comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down....
Beau geste
Character: Self
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Kem's
Character: Self
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Character: Self
Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up best when he says, 'You've finally made a show about nothing.'...
Huge en France
Character: Gal Elmaleh
Famous comedian Gad Elmaleh moves to LA to reconnect with his son and must learn to live without the celebrity perks he's accustomed to in France....
Un soir à la tour Eiffel
Character: Self
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LOL : Qui rit, sort !
Character: Self
Philippe Lacheau has invited 10 actors and comedians to live a unique experience in a grandiose setting. There is only one rule to follow for the next 6 hours: if you laugh, you are eliminated. The 10 comedians will have to keep cool despite having to try and make each other laugh. The winner will get 50 000 euros for the charity he/she represents. Nothing is off limits!...
Samedi soir en direct
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La Grosse Rigolade !
Character: Self
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Téléthon
Character: Self
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Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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Le Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
French version of the famous sketch show that parodies cultural and political news....
Movie Credits
Calvi Comedy Festival
Character: Self
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Gad Elmaleh: 20 Ans sur Scène
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Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
Character: Self
Thirty-four years ago, Johnny Hallyday performed for the first time on the Bercy stage. He remains the artist who played the venue the greatest number of times. For the inauguration of the Esplanade Johnny-Hallyday, his unique voice will once again fill the legendary concert hall for a tribute show....
Gad Elmaleh : D'ailleurs
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After Sans tambour and an international tour with Oh My Gad! performed in English in more than fifteen countries, Gad Elmaleh is back with a new one-man show, D'ailleurs. An intimate and jubilant show! For nearly two years, the comedian has crisscrossed France with this sixth show mixing stand-up and characters, free of the desire to please. An unfiltered return, eagerly awaited by his audience, to be discovered in this recording at the Dôme de Paris. Gad Elmaleh confides on his daily life, his ...
Gad Elmaleh - Décalages
Character: Self
Décalages, c'est le titre de son premier one man show. Il retrace son parcours depuis le départ du Maroc, en passant par Montréal et finissant en France où il se forme au cours Florent....
Gad Elmaleh - Papa est en haut
Character: Self
Dans ce spectacle, mis en scène par sa soeur Judith Elmaleh, il parle de son enfance, de son fils et de son père ; 750 000 places seront vendus....
Gad Elmaleh - L’autre c’est moi
Character: Himself
L'Autre c'est moi est le troisième spectacle de l'humoriste Gad Elmaleh, en 2005....
Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale
Character: David
La Vie normale est un spectacle de Gad Elmaleh sorti en 2001 où sont dépeints les caractères de plusieurs personnages et où il joue son propre rôle....
The Valet
Character: François Pignon
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon....
Would I Lie to You? 2
Character: Dove
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain....
Priceless
Character: Jean
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch....
Qui Veut Gagner de l'Argent en Masse
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Train of Life
Character: Manzatou
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine....
The Round Up
Character: Schmuel Weismann
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it....
Départ immédiat
Character: Self
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Salut cousin !
Character: Alilo
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a ...
Man Is a Woman
Character: David Eskenazi
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead...
A+ Pollux
Character: Halvard Sanz
Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It’s written in the tables of how the world works, right next to the law of series and the constant speed of light. Halvard therefore believes that he’ll be able to find Pollux again. She’s the woman of his dreams, but he didn’t get the time to tell her so. Dizzy as a bee, he’ll charge head first into the plate glass window of life....
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Comme ton père
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1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques années plus tard, à peine installé à Belleville, Félix fait la connaissance de Serge, un parrain local avec qui il se lie d'amitié. Serge entraîne Félix sur les chemins du grand banditisme, jusqu'à ce que celui-ci se fasse prendre par la police et décide d'endosser, à la place de Serge, la responsabilité de chef de bande....
À bicyclette
Character: Night watchman
During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work by bicycle. Their meeting at a traffic light will change their lives....
Le gala de Paul Mirabel (avec de l'aide)
Character: Self
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The Adventures of Tintin
Character: Ben Salaad (voice)
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunk...
Chouchou
Character: Choukri, alias Chouchou
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas....
Coco
Character: Coco
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah....
Made in Jamel
Character: Self
Pour cette nouvelle aventure, Jamel a invité des artistes, à participer à plus d’une douzaine de courts-métrages originaux créés par lui-même et son équipe. Au programme des parodies désopilantes (Low School Musical, Les Experts Ouarzazate, Les Smashin’ Pump Spin’s…), des sketches hilarants (L’interview de la Chaussure de Bush, la leçon de Jamel…) et surtout la présence de guest stars tels que Florence Foresti, Audrey Lamy, Stromae, Didier Bourdon, David Pujadas ou Gad Elmaleh.Au final, un voyag...
People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow
Character: Jimmy
A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two tickets he couldn't use. Lovers Pauline and the pregnant, cranky Anita find their vacation complicated by an ex-lover of Pauline's. The playboy Jimmy is the hotel M.C., and Carla, free-spirited and sensual, coaches Laurette in the ways of seduction. She is hot ...
Les soeurs Hamlet
Character: Malo
At long last, the two Hamlet sisters are allowed to go to Paris by themselves, and the discotheque they have heard about beckons. When the driver for their ride home becomes too drunk to drive, they cannot reach their mother by phone, and it is too late to take the last train back to where they live, they are stranded in town. The girls, who are themselves partly of Algerian descent, are accosted by a disreputable looking older Algerian immigrant, who tries to give them cash so that they can tak...
Enrico Macias, l'inattendu
Character: Self
Enrico Macias is best known for his songs and his commitment to peace. He is less known for his self-mockery, his humor and his fantasy. Talents that Philippe Bouvard or Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier have highlighted in their variety shows, since the 70s. A taste for comedy that opened the doors of the cinema, at over sixty years, in the film "La Vérité si je mens". Through rarely broadcast archives, it is an unexpected portrait of Enrico Macias, virtuoso artist, discoverer of talents and great...
Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut
Character: Self
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Les seigneurs du château
Character: Self
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Olé !
Character: Ramon
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia....
Midnight in Paris
Character: Détective Tisserant
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight....
A Monster in Paris
Character: Raoul (voice)
Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief....
Tout sur Jamel
Character: Self
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Second life
Character: Lionel
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his friend, what color should he buy shoes for? Life for him is an eternal dilemma. But one day, fate made a choice for him. Vansan crashes into an advertising post by car and makes a leap in time for 16 years in advance. Now at about forty, he heads a large corporation, is married to a woman with whom he is barely familiar, has a teenage son who is co...
Drôles de familles
Character: Self
When comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is horrifying or hilarious in the family: from the "new generation" fathers to the dictates of the perfect mother, as well as the taboos of parenthood, unmanageable teenagers, and unbearable mothers-in-law....
Capital
Character: Marc Tourneuil
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out....
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Character: Sacha Keller
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other....
Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel
Character: Self
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Mood Indigo
Character: Chick
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs....
The Dream Team
Character: Rayane Ziani
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs....
Alibi.com 2
Character: Hafid
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! When he decides to propose to Flo, Greg is up against the wall and has to introduce his family. But with his crooked father and his ex-charm actress mother, this could ruin his future union. He has no choice but to reopen his agency with his former accomplices for an ultimate Alibi and to find more presentable fake parents....
The Dope
Character: Le spécialiste des Stups
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them....
On fait comme on a dit
Character: acteur
One fine day, at about 10 am, in a suburban house, three men, in their thirties are waiting for a fourth buddy. When he arrives, they plan to hold up the local bank where Séverine, their accomplice, is waiting for them. This could well be the beginning of a thrilling crime story, but these tough men, sporting tattoos, are not what they appear. "On fait comme on dit" is a comedy, and these guys could be descendants of the Keystone Cops. They are dreamers not gangsters. So much is riding on this b...
Purplemind
Character: Arthur Trimbaldi
Sally aka Purplemind, a telepath who once founded a superhero collective, now lives in a retirement home. Interviewed by a journalist who wants to write her biography, Purplemind looks back on her past. The traumatic discovery of her powers in the 90s, the creation of a group of heroes, their fame and then their decline after the death of one of them....
Jack and Jill
Character: Xavier
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down....
Kev Adams : De l'autre côté du miroir
Character: Self
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Stay With Us
Character: Gad
Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the l...
La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Character: Self
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XXL
Character: Samy
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the...
The 11 Commandments
Character: Gad
After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find that people aren't laughing anymore, He gives the six friends a mission: to save the world with the Eleven Commandments of the Joke. The men enthusiastically take on their task. They undertake various tests aimed at pushing the limits of stupidity....
L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Character: Self
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Gad Elmaleh : Sans tambour
Character: Gad Elmaleh
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C'est Montreux bébé ! (De Pagnol à Jul)
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Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
Character: Self
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Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya
Character: Le Marocain
Franky and Krimo dream of leaving the grey grime of their neighborhood behind and of traveling to the famous and diabolical Thai beach resort of Pattaya. To get there cheaply, the two friends have the crazy idea of registering, unbeknownst to him, the local little person for the Thai Dwarf Boxing World Championship. But what was supposed to be a dream vacation will transform into the most insane and dangerous adventure of their lives....
Christmas at Bunny's
Character: Boîte à Souhaits segment
Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his job, including showing him some of his own old cartoons....
Long Live the Republic
Character: Yannick
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party....
Jeff Panacloc, l'extraordinaire aventure
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The Midnight Orchestra
Character: Rabbi Moshe
After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician travels to his home country to bury his father. As he meets the members of the band, his life unexpectedly transforms....
Jamel Show
Character: Self
Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests for a comedy special to celebrate the end of the millennium....
Marrakech du rire
Character: Self
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Gad Elmaleh - The Normal Life
Character: Himself
Gad Elmaleh’s second One Man Show full of Sketches such as “Chouchou”, “The Grandpa”, and the return of “Abderhazak El Merhaoui”....
Kev Adams & Gad Elmaleh - Kev Gad, Tout est possible
Character: Self
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Gad Gone Wild
Character: Himself
French comic Gad Elmaleh regales a Montreal crowd with tales of awkward mix-ups and baffling customs he's encountered since moving to the U.S....
Juste pour rire fait son show
Character: Self
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017
Character: Self
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Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir?
Character: Self
French humorist Yacine Belhousse tours the world to explore how stand-up comedians make audiences laugh across cultures....
Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
Character: Self
In his first English-language special, comedian Gad Elmaleh gleefully digs into America's food obsessions, dating culture, slang, and more....
La famille, ça me fait bien rire !
Character: Self
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
Character: Self
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Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Character: Self
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2012
Character: Self
Marrakech du Rire is an annual international festival of humor that has been held since 2011 in Marrakech, Morocco. Created by comedian Jamel Debbouze, it has been broadcast every year since its creation on the French TV channel M6....
Welcome to China
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Gad Elmaleh has agreed to be the guest star for the opening of a karaoke in China but the date doesn't suit him. He asks his brother Arie to stand in for him....
L'Invitation
Character: Daniel
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Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Character: Self
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The Car Keys
Character: Gad Elmaleh
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner......
The Dictator
Character: Demonstrator in Wadiya (uncredited)
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed....
Les Galas Juste Pour Rire: Un monde sans femme
Character: Self
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Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
Character:
Show recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur....
CamKev Comedy & Songs
Character: Self
Camille Lellouche and Kev Adams are hosting a live special with some of their comedians and musicians friends....
Flashback
Character: Maximilien de Robespierre
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights....
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
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Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy
Character: Self
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Michel Denisot n'aime pas les anniversaires
Character: Self
He may not like birthdays, but Michel Denisot celebrates LGJ's 20th, CANAL+'s 40th, and his own 80th!...