The comedian from Quebec speaks four languages and mounted the province's first major bilingual comedy show.
Sugar Sammy, one of Canada's most popular comics. By Elahe Izadi Elahe Izadi Pop culture writer Email Bio Follow March 8 at 1:50 PM Comedian Sugar Sammy is trying to describe how he can move to a new country and figure out enough of the local quirks to poke fun at them.
That sense of observation and lingual dexterity has allowed Sugar Sammy — whose real name is Samir Khullar — to perform in far-flung places, including South Africa, India and France, where he lives part time and serves as a judge on its version of “America’s Got Talent.” And after packing massive venues in Canada and getting plenty of buzz in France, he plans to tour every year in what he calls “the mecca and the birthplace of stand-up”: the United States.
The comedian, with a stage name he picked up from his university days, grew up in Notre-Dame-de-Grace, a predominantly English-speaking part of Montreal. He also performs in Hindi and Punjabi, which he spoke at home with Indian immigrant parents. And he learned French in school. For the most part, Khullar says, his audiences can take the jokes aimed at their way of life because he has always been viewed as an outsider, even in Canada: He was an outsider entering the French Quebec circuit, and in the rest of the country, “It’s like, 'Oh it’s that guy from Quebec.’ ”
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