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A vote for Sugar Sammy:and for bringing English and French together in laughter

by Don Macpherson
2013-05-10

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.