Élie Kakou

Comedian and actor · 1960–1999

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Born in Nabeul to a Sephardic Jewish family, he became a stand-up star in France with characters like Madame Sarfati, his loving parody of the Sephardi Jewish mother. He died of cancer at thirty-nine.

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