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A vote for Sugar Sammy:and for bringing English and French together in laughter
Fans of standup comic Sugar Sammy's groundbreaking bilingual show You're Gonna Rire will have an opportunity on Sunday evening to help right a wrong.
As I wrote a few weeks ago, Sammy has received three nominations for Quebec's Olivier awards for humour in 2012.
None of them, however, is for the bilingual show that became a social and political phenomenon as well as an entertainment one. And that's precisely because the show was bilingual; the rules for the awards exclude material in English.
But there's still a chance that Sammy will be honoured for bringing English- and French-speaking Quebecers together in the same audience in laughter.
He's one of 10 nominees for the Olivier of the year, which will be decided by a vote of the public by telephone and the web during the awards ceremony.
To vote, fans of You're Gonna Rire can phone 1-900-930-4252 or go to the website olivier.radio-canada.ca between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 12.