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News 06 Jun 2013 4 min read

Kick-off of the "Marrakech du Rire" Festival

For its third edition, the unmissable event for laughter and comedy, initiated under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, offers five days of new shows "brimming with good humour" with headliners from here and elsewhere, such as Djamel Debbouze, Hassan El Fed, Eko, Rachid Badouri, Malik Bentalha, Youssef Ksiyer, Patrice Thibaud...
Kick-off of the "Marrakech du Rire" Festival
The international comedy festival "Marrakech du Rire" opened on Wednesday evening in the presence of an avalanche of comedy stars. The inaugural show took place on the stage of the Royal Theatre with a show orchestrated by the very famous comedian Hassan El Fad, who paid tribute to Moroccan traditions through his participatory show "la Halqa", alongside other comedians and artists, both national and foreign.Placed under the sign of diversity, this show featured, among others, the Sefrou Brass Band, the Moroccan-American violinist, singer, and composer Amir Ali, the French comedian Patrice Thibaud, the Moroccan-Quebecois comedian Rachid Badouri, the actress Mouna Fettou, the Arlequin theatre troupe, the Moroccan-Ivorian comedian Tahar Lazrak (Wallace), and the Algerian artist Cheb Bilal. Created in 2011 at the initiative of the new "Coluche of a black-blanc-beur France", Jamel Debbouze,…

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