Stand-up comic Ian Moore was living the Platonic ideal of a European life – travelling from the pastoral calm of his family home in rural France to weekly gigs in Britain – when the Brexit bombshell landed. In London for the 2016 referendum, "I made the decision literally the day after the vote, on the train back," he recalled. "I had to apply for French citizenship as soon as I possibly could." Six years on, the comedian is keen for another sort of vote: his first French presidential election.
Projecting to the April 10 first round, Moore has it all sussed out. "I'm going to get dressed up," the bespectacled funnyman declared, already dapper in a porkpie hat and brown ascot, speaking from his Loire Valley home. "I'm going to carry the tricolore flag. I'm going to do this properly," the 51-year-old writer and performer laughed.
