“In 2013, a friend of Chinese origin told me: “France is a very small country with 20,000 comedians, while in China there are 1.5 billion and there are hardly any!” .
So I replied: "Bah, I'm going to do that, me, a Chinese comedian".
It seemed like a good career idea to me, ”smiles Patrick Veisselier, a French humorist who went to present stand-up shows in China when he did not speak the language.
humorous differences
“I decided to perform in Chinese with the idea that it would be easier to have a show translated, recorded and learned phonetically.
But I discovered that Chinese humor was not the same – but really not the same at all – as in France, and that no sentence in my show was really translatable into Chinese,” laughs the humorist.
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Moreover, the Chinese political system also impacts the way of “thinking humor”: “my show was of course validated by the Chinese government;
I submitted my text with the certification never to change a line, then the government sent it back to me, specifying "Ok, that's great"... or, at worst, pointing out to me that such a sentence was not culturally understandable for Chinese audiences.
So I simply deleted it,” concludes Patrick Veisselier.
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