The idea amuses some and irritates many others. Since he said, at the end of May, that he could be "interested" in a candidacy for the presidential election, the humorist Jean-Marie Bigard has not backtracked yet. He even went so far as to announce during a streaming show that he would try to obtain the famous 500 signatures. But the attitude of the star also divides among artists, and Thursday, on Europe 1, it is his colleague Elie Semoun who was frankly skeptical about the idea of Jean-Marie Bigard, "a big bullshit" according to him.
Confident of his fear that Jean-Marie Bigard "leaves feathers" in this story, the former acolyte of Dieudonné also felt that the humorists should know how to stay in their place. "We are buffoons," he said on our antenna. Sunday, in a video posted on Facebook, Jean-Marie Bigard answered him, with his flowery language that characterizes him.
Coming back to the image of the buffoon that comedians would embody, and which would justify, according to Elie Semoun, that they do not meddle in politics, Jean-Marie Bigard expresses his deep disagreement. "The jester, at all times, is the guy who, in the middle of the court before the king, takes out things that no one else can get out of," he explains.
"The buffoon is an extremely brave guy"
"He's an extremely brave guy," he continues. "He goes for it, and takes the risk of having his tongue cut off if he has gone a little far, or of being forgotten. While the jester who is not courageous is a heart hole licker. . ".
Criticizing the idea of a jester who "stays hidden, a little in agreement with everyone", Bigard assures for his part to be "a real jester, who has balls". And "if misfortune happens to me, if I got too close to the fire, that I burned my wings, and that I die, I would like that on my grave we mark: 'here is a jester who had balls' ", concludes the troublemaker.