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A threat against Sugar Sammy was reportedly called in Thursday night from a payphone to the box office of Université de Sherbrooke’s Salle Maurice-O’Bready, where the comic played.

La Tribune reports that the caller referred to Sugar Sammy as a “federal clown” and threatened something — he didn’t specify what — would happen to him at the show.

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Sherbrooke Police told La Tribune the call was made at 7 p.m., and that police took the threat seriously enough that they ramped up security and checked people’s bags before they headed inside.

A police spokesman told the paper this isn’t the first time the comic has been threatened.

Sugar Sammy and his team were informed of last night’s threat, he added, but decided the show would go on.

Sugar Sammy, who likes to poke fun at Quebec’s linguistic divide in his popular shows, got under the skin of the province’s more ardent supporters of the French language recently with a métro ad that baited the language watchdog l’Office québécois de la langue française.

More than 250,000 tickets to his You’re Gonna Rire and En français SVP! shows have been sold this year.