INTERVIEW
Can we laugh at everything? For Waly Dia, actor and humorist, the answer is yes. Invited in Culture Médias on Europe 1, he assures that "the problem of all the controversies that we have on humor, it is often when it is humor not informed, which surfs on a cliché". According to him, "the more complicated the subject, the more interesting it is to have a certain culture on the subject." In order not to fall into the pitfall of ease, he has a technique: "Each time I make a valve, that I write it, I ask myself a very simple question: if the room was filled with people concerned by this valve, would it make them laugh? If I make a joke about the disabled and there are only disabled in the room, will they laugh or feel embarrassed? "
He believes that by this process, he avoids problems since "we tell ourselves that we have the right to do it in front of the people directly affected. So I think there is nothing to be forbidden".
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The comedian also plays regularly in hospitals or in prison, because according to him "no one deserves to laugh". And there again, "we can say anything!", He says. Waly Dia has an anecdote. "Once, in prison, a guy started to get angry. I said to him 'Do you want to fight? Come, let's meet outside'," he laughs. "In prison, you can say anything. I even ask them why they are there."
Waly Dia is on tour with "Ensemble ou rien", and will give five performances at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris from May 29 to June 6, will be in Nancy on February 15, in Montpellier on 28, or in Grenoble, his city birth, April 9.