- At the end of March, the humorist Dédo put his show “Killing Joke” online for free on his YouTube channel.
- "This may allow people to spend a nice hour and think about something else," says Dédo in "20 Minutes".
- “We were bludgeoned enough by this, consciously or not. Dédo is not sure to mention confinement and the coronavirus pandemic in his new show.
“France confined, I decided to occupy your current interstellar vacuum with the posting of my second show. No thanks. Just come and see me on stage right after the confinement ends in April 2031. ”At the end of March, Dédo made its one-man Killing Joke available free on YouTube. In a little over an hour, he brewed a large number of subjects, from his grandparents to video games and football. A passage concerning physicians finds a particular echo in this period of coronavirus pandemic ... "Why don't we glorify them more?" It is a thousand times stronger than high performance athletes. Guys save lives. This proves that society is no longer thinking as before, "said the comedian on stage several months ago. In ten days, Killing Joke has been watched more than 270,000 times. For 20 Minutes , Dédo returns to his approach and evokes humor at the time of confinement.
Why did you decide to make your show available for free?
It is a rather special period. A maximum of people find themselves confined to their homes without being able to go out too much, so we decided, with my production, to put the show online. It might allow people to spend a nice hour and think about something else. I was waiting for VOD platforms but since the answers were coming late we thought that it was now that we had to do it, because that's when it's boring for people.
In financial terms, this is a shortfall for you ...
In absolute terms, yes. But it was done in accordance with my production. We see it as a kind of cool gift. It could interest people who already knew me. And then, it can also allow people who knew little or nothing about my work to discover it and make them want to come see me on stage if we can replay one day before these next twenty-five years.
You say "Just come and see me on stage at the end of confinement". It's give-and-take ?
It's more of a wink than anything else, because there is no obligation to do that. I thought it was funny to pass him off for that while hinting that a new show was running in. If you give a little kif to people and that behind they want to know more about your creation, everyone is a winner.
France confined, I decided to dissolve the assembly ... oh no I decided to occupy your current interstellar vacuum with the posting of my 2nd show.
No thanks.
Just come see me on stage just after the confinement ends in April 2031.https: //t.co/OEv8nlMGZs
Did that open you up to a new audience?
By force of circumstances. The show was shared fairly massively on networks. There are recommendations that can fall on YouTube, word of mouth can also encourage some to take a look… If the people who discovered this show liked it, it's positive. In the messages I receive, some say to me "We didn't know you, we liked it a lot, we had a good time and if you come back on stage, we'll be there". Even if in the end they don't come into the room, having this kind of feedback remains gratifying.
Your new show was running. What influence do the coronavirus pandemic and containment have on this show?
We are all on general stand-by. In the field of performing arts, we are technically unemployed. I have no idea how it will all restart. Nobody can know how will be the gradual return, we already do not know when the containment will be lifted. Once it’s over, people won’t necessarily want to go back to see shows to be glued to other people…
Are you going to add references to coronavirus and containment?
I did twenty-one break-in dates, I had about fifteen left. There are things that are fixed because they work and they have a place in the logic of the framework of the show that I created. Now, maybe I will talk about containment, maybe not. We were bludgeoned enough by this, consciously or not. Unless I find a really interesting angle, I'm not sure to talk about it. I think there will be an evolution in writing in general in stand up. This will influence our writing more subliminally.
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- Pierre-Emmanuel Barré (@Sale_Con) April 7, 2020Today, a lot of comedians are active on social networks through videos in which they talk about confinement. Pierre-Emmanuel Barré does it very well in his somewhat trashy and crazy newspaper. But in the end everything will have been said, so tackling the theme again, unless you have a different point of view, it will be complicated. It will be more interesting to talk about how we are going to react to this than to talk about the pandemic as such. But we will realize it once it's over.
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