French-Moroccan-Canadian comic Gad Elmaleh has allegedly asked Twitter to remove the tweets made public by the anonymous channel that published the videos, accusing him of allegedly copying the routines of American stand-up comedians. On its Twitter account the channel in question, known as CopyComicVideos, posted a message for Gad Elmaleh. Entitled «shocking», CopyComic alleged that Gad Elmaleh ordered «his lawyers to censure the tweets that contained the channel's videos on plagiarism», citing copyright. HALLUCINANT : ✅Et si Gad Elmaleh avait fait censurer sur Twitter les vidéos #CopyComic qui le concernent au nom du "droit d'auteur" ?! ✅Et si Gad Elmaleh avait exigé par ses avocats que Twitter lui révèle mon identité et mes informations personnelles ?! ........ RT appréciés ! pic.twitter.com/0iVweTh5Kd — CopyComicVideos (@CopyComicVideos) 20 février 2019 According to the same message, the Netflix comedian has even, reportedly, «tried, through his lawyers, to reveal the identity of the person behind» the CopyComic plagiarism videos. For the record, on January the 29th, a CopyComic video «revealed a slew of examples of comic routines by Elmaleh that show uncanny resemblance to jokes by other comics». The video alleges that the Moroccan comedian copied the routine of two American stand-up comedians, namely George Carlin and Steven Wright, and Canadian actors Patrick Huard and Martin Matte. Replying to accusations, Gad Elmaleh published a video on his Twitter, last week, addressing allegations through humor. Dressed as one of his female characters, Elmaleh mocked the people accusing him of plagiarism, indicating that has «been around for 25 years». Gad Elmaleh replies to plagiarism allegations using humor, but without making his fans laugh After the video shared by CopyComic went viral, the Montreal theater decided to ban the Casablanca-born stand-up comedian from its guest list. Gad Elmaleh has already performed at this comedy club, which is a former brothel offering shows with 5 or more unannounced comedians per show. It is not the first time that Gad Elmaleh faces similar accusations. In October, 2017, the same channel revealed in a video that several French comedians, including Gad Elmaleh, were overly inspired by their American counterparts.
