Sugar Sammy wins top two Olivier prizes.

In the end, Sugar Sammy had the last rire.

The multilingual Montreal comic — whose bilingual show You're Gonna Rire was the live-comedy phenomenon of the year in Quebec — took home the two top prizes at Le  Gala Les Olivier, Quebec's comedy awards, which were handed out Sunday night in Montreal.

Sugar Sammy won the awards despite the fact that the runaway success of You're Gonna Rire was not officially acknowledged by Les Olivier. (The awards only honour French comedy in the province.)

“I hope you don't blame this on the ethnic vote, too,” Sugar Sammy joked after winning

the evening's top prize, the Olivier de l'année — which was voted on by the public during the gala's broadcast on Radio-Canada — before warmly thanking the Quebec comedy community for embracing him.

Then, in English, he spoke to his anglo fans, with a grin: “Guys, I'm in — time to take over!”

Earlier, after winning the Olivier for comedy show of the year, the Côte-des-Neiges native — who has sold more than 130,000 tickets to his performances since You're Gonna Rire and En français svp! Debuted last year — thanked “my two roommates, my mother and father.” (The fact that he lives with his parents has figured prominently in Sugar Sammy's comedy.)

In the other Olivier category for which Sugar Sammy was nominated — best writer — he lost to Sébastien Dubé, Vincent Leonard and Sylvain Larocque for the Comme du monde by the comedy duo Denis Drolet.

Earlier in the evening, a dapper Sugar Sammy presented the Olivier for best directing alongside comedy writer/director Simon-Olivier Fecteau, and the pair engaged in some barbed but goodnatured roasting of their respective careers, as well as those of Quebec comedy stars, including Le Gala Les Olivier host Mario Jean.

For a complete list of Les Olivier winners, visit olivier.radio-canada.ca/fr/finalistes.

Tickets for upcoming shows of both You're Gonna Rire and En français svp! are on sale now via Evenko at evenko.ca.

Photo : John Kenney/THE GAZETTE 

Sugar Sammy took home the two top prizes at Le Gala Les Olivier Sunday night in Montreal.

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