INTERVIEW
Songs sometimes vulgar or simplistic, a frankness which marks, and a will to remain closer to the French despite links with the powerful. If he has a great culture, Patrick Sébastien is above all "a 12 year old kid who does not want to grow up", he confides. A facet of his personality that he willingly puts forward and that he does not hesitate to mix with a schoolboy humor . So many elements that gave the multi-faceted artist an image of a beauf. But he assures him, he only "plays".
"My favorite hobby is the crosswords from Télérama !"
Guest of "Anne Roumanoff, it feels good" this Thursday to talk about the release of her latest work, I moved the elephant , which condenses and contextualizes replicas of everyday life that marked it, the host returned to this label which does not bother him in the least. "There is nothing more pleasant than being taken for a con by people who are twice as stupid as you", he affirms to the microphone of Europe 1. "You cannot know the pleasure it brings. "
"I was tried, I was called a beauf, but I am a tolerant boy, humanist, and my favorite hobby is the crossword puzzle of Télérama ! well, there is no problem. "
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A little over a year after his ouster from PAF [May 11, 2019 with the Years of Happiness, editor's note], Patrick Sébastien also looked back on his 44-year career in the small screen. Evoking a "pain" which, like all the others, "allows to positivize", he assures to have mourned it and no longer want to return. His "third life", the former animator now devotes to writing songs, scripts, or books. This does not prevent him from taking a critical look at this new television which pushed him towards the exit.
"We are not far from the ORTF!"
"Today, it is no longer made for artists," he said. "Whether it's to make shows or TV movies, it goes through codes and there are guys in offices who judge what is good or not." Finally, "we are not far from the ORTF! Only at that time, it was the women of the presidents of the Republic and the ministers who said what was not right!"
So, so that the artists are once again subject to the only judgment which finds favor in the eyes of Patrick Sébastien, that of the public, he decided to take his "Biggest cabaret in the world" on tour throughout France from November 2020. No less than 30 Zenith are planned for this stage version of his cult show. A return to the spotlight that the artist owes in part to a partnership with ... TF1.