Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.