Yesterday I went to Paris with some CEMS friends for this guy's show - Olivier Giraud, a french man doing standup comedy in English!..
His jokes are mainly from national stereotypes, and making jokes of life in Paris. "How to Become a Parisian in One Hour" provided a decent amount of material for my 851 cultural journals, thanks to Olivier.
I couldn't help doing a quick comparison between his show and the one-man standup performance of Zhou Libo 周立波 in Shanghai, a metropolis comparable to Paris in the east. While Zhou often adopts a sarcastic tone against Shanghai's migrant population, to please local Shanghai audience , Olivier (a Parisian who lived in the US for 10 years) jokes about the more unpleasant side of modern urban Paris to the English-speaking population in Paris, many of whom are foreigners like me.
All in all, whatever works...
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