Mohamed Fellag (1950, Azeffoun, Algerije) is a comedian. The ex-director of the Théâtre Régional in Bougie, Algeria, he arrived in Paris in 1995. There he has made humour an area in which Algerian taboos relating to colonialism and independence, oppression and bureaucracy, emigration and hopelessness, are mentioned by name and broken. His work comes as a tremendous relief to his Algerian/French audiences in France and to the Algerians who watch and listen to the tapes in Kabyle, Arabic and French in their own country.
