Comics say the darndest things

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on December 22nd, 2004

We’ve been getting email for a couple years now from one Karel Beer, an expat Brit who lives in Paris and books U.S. and U.K. comics into his comedy room at the Hotel du Nord. We even alerted our readers about it a few months back! Expatica.com, a website that claims to provide, in all caps, “NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR EXPATS IN FRANCE,” just ran an article on it. Here’s a quote from one of the comics who frequents the Hotel du Nord:

“For Americans there is a sense of liberation being overseas,” he said adding there was “more latitude to say what you feel.”[…]

Huh? Welcome to the upside down world of Greg Proops– An American comic who must go to France for “a sense of liberation.”