Kev Adams and Gad Elmaleh are starting to get impatient. Saturday, January 30, 2021, the day after Jean Castex's speech from the Elysee Palace announcing new restrictive measures to try to stem the Covid-19 pandemic, the two comedians raised a rant against the government , in the columns of Parisian. For them, the players in the world of culture are sacrificed. “Now, I'm a little fed up. I ask the government: if we do not try to reopen, have the courage to tell us the official bad news. Tell us for example that we are not going to play until September or October, so that we can organize ourselves”, Confides Gad Elmaleh, who will give with his sidekick Kev Adams, a stand-up show live on the internet on Saturday January 30, 2021.
A point of view shared by Kev Adams. Although aware "the seriousness of things"Kevin Smadja, whose real name is, believes that the government is not"very brave, not very responsible”. The two friends then think that Roselyne Bachelot, the Minister of Culture, has a role to play. They decided to call him out: "She has to talk", says Kev Adams.
"It's mental health"
Gad Elmaleh, who had been infected with Covid-19, supports him: “If it closes for a long time, we will make different choices, especially career choices, perhaps launching film writing projects. It involves a lot of people, intermittents, authors, directors … The same politicians who make speeches on "culture is the lung of a civilization" all of a sudden, they no longer calculate the profession, they don't is not normal”. The two comedians still do not understand that the culture sector is considered non-essential by the government: “It’s almost the Ministry of Health that should take it over, it’s mental health”, Says Gad Elmaleh, disillusioned.
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