A controversial French comic said yesterday he’s misunderstood by Jewish interest groups who accuse him of anti-Semitism and want his act censored. Defending himself as "a humanist and universalist" who doesn’t believe in ethnic or religious distinctions, Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala told reporters he’s no racist. "I’m a comic," the 38-year-old performer said at a news conference to plug his one-man show, Mes excuses, at the Just for Laughs Festival. "I know my style can shock, but that’s my right - the right to blaspheme," said Dieudonne, as he’s known.
| Everyone else has the right to call you names, too. That sounds fair... |
"My job is to make people laugh, yes, about sensitive subjects ... and sometimes that can touch sentiments in the community that have been exacerbated by difficult times. But I’m just doing my job as a comic." |