"Me, my responsibility is to make people dream and to enlighten people in my own way, with humor", replied the actor to Isabelle Morizet, who questioned him about the potential candidacy of Jean -Marie Bigard in the 2020 presidential election, Saturday on Europe 1.
In one of the sketches that made him famous, Smaïn is President of the Republic.
If this is only a staging, another comedian has recently taken the plunge: Jean-Marie Bigard has announced his intention to run for the presidential election of 2022. A good idea?
"We can not be everywhere", replied the first to the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, Saturday on Europe 1.
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"My responsibility is to make people dream"
"I laugh at that, but me (...) I do not have the capacity to be able to carry this responsibility", continues the humorist.
"Me, my responsibility is to make people dream and to enlighten people in my own way, with humor. Before adding, when asked about a potential candidacy of Jean-Marie Bigard:" I think that 'you have to be careful with gender confusions. "
And Smaïn to develop the comparison between politicians and those who choose the theater.
"In a politician, there are ideas (...) and then there is a technique. So, it is obvious that politicians very much appreciate actors because actors, precisely, it's our technique, to speak , to express an intention and to be understood by as many people as possible, ”he believes.
"There are a lot of politicians who have coaches, who have teachers. (...) Because obviously, an idea is much more efficient if you understand it."