Rachid Badouri, the acclaimed French-Canadian comedian, captivated audiences in Montreal with his Netflix comedy special. Badouri’s show, performed in Canadian French, pokes fun at the language and ...

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Ever since he was young, Rachid Badouri always knew he wanted to be a comedian. From his early days in high school, he would steal his father’s cologne and sell it to his peers “by the push”. This led ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

"We're all just one race: the human race." Rachid Badouri reminded us as he opened and closed the show. There was no better phrase to summarize the show's attitude towards ethnicity: everyone was ...

L'Appât ( Bait), the latest cop comedy hitting screens in the Belle province, marks a first for Quebec cinema: It stars a popular stand-up comic who is not a white French Canadian male. In this James ...

Throughout the years, one of the Just for Laughs Festival’s most popular series had been the Montreal Shows, spotlighting the best and brightest of this city’s anglo wits. For reasons unknown and ...

Quebec stand-up comic Rachid Badouri has been a household name in French for years. His first show at Just for Laughs in 2007 sold 100,000 tickets and he was named Discovery of the Year at the ...

When Rachid Badouri told his father he was quitting his job to pursue stand-up comedy, he wasn't expecting a positive response. Badouri's parents moved to Laval, Que., from a small village in Morocco ...

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