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"He was handsome, he was funny, he was free and courageous." Nicolas Bedos announced the death of his father on social networks this Thursday evening. Died at the age of 85, Guy Bedos was a comic-citizen engaged on the left, an obsessive anti-racist, not always charitable with his family of thought, who had also distinguished himself in the cinema and the theater. From his political commitment to his humor to play down death through his relationship with his audience, Guy Bedos had confided on December 18, 2004 at the microphone Europe 1 of Isabelle Morizet.
The origins of his commitment
It was because he was "lucky to have an unhappy childhood" that Guy Bedos was such a committed man. Born June 15, 1934 in Algiers, he "does not support racism" of the settlers, including that of his parents, against the natives. And the "first government" he resists is that of his mother and stepfather, a "downright fascinating" man who beat her. It is thanks to a "teacher" that he learned human rights at the age of "7 years", a founding moment in the artist's life since even if he had "a little more vocabulary "as an adult, he was only" repeating what [he] had already felt very young ". He will even declare having spent his life atoning for the faults of colonialism.
His relation to death
Greatly anxious by nature, Guy Bedos nevertheless spent his "time dying on stage", a "way of exorcising" death. If he said he was not "afraid of it", he especially opposed his humor. "I found myself once on a stretcher in the hospital where my last children, Nicolas and Victoria were born, and where two of my friends died: Pierre Desproges and Michel Drach. And I told them [the caregivers, editor's note], 'for the moment you have the average, don't be stupid!' "he said at the microphone of Europe 1. It was while being" anesthetized "before his operation that Guy Bedos explained that he understood that "death is an abstraction".
His relationship with the public
An adulated artist, Guy Bedos considered his audience to be "without doubt the best" and he was "very attached" to it. "I like it and I am lucky because even with the passage of time, it remains very large. I always see small faces of very young people who have fun during my shows, it's very cheerful." A reciprocal love that will spread over more than fifty years of laughter, theater or cinema.
His friendship with Jean-Loup Dabadie
He was the friend of a lifetime who wrote more than 200 sketches to him. However, Jean-Loup Dabadie could have terribly resented Guy Bedos, since he took his place as an author in the program Les raisins blancs. He left for the Algerian war, so it was "on the soldier's home" that he discovered Guy Bedos. And "instead of blaming me, he wrote Bonne fête Paulette to me, " said the humorist on Europe 1. The beginning of a friendship that will not end until May 24, when Jean disappears -Loup Dabadie, four days before that of Guy Bedos.
His relationship with women
Married three times, Guy Bedos loved women ... and their humor. "Curiously, a lot of women make me laugh," he explained. "The feminine humor is exactly the one I like because it is not dry, it comes from the depths of the heart and sometimes from the body. There is emotion in this laughter, and it that's what touches me. " A particular relationship with the opposite sex that he owed to "very developed female chromosomes": "There are women who forget that I am a man and who speak to me as to an old friend! They speak ill of men before me and I add a little, I love beating men with women. "