The 'yak yak' portion is an important ingredient of a show presentation. I myself devote at least a few minutes of light humor & a background monolog to break the ice with the audience. A certain amount of yak yak is good, and gives us net viewers, in additional to Michel's excellent music, a taste of Michel's onstage personna as well. Now if I could only figure out where I put those auto foreign language tapes. - Scott