"I struggled with the headset" ... Ruquier debriefs "We are live"

Laurent Ruquier on the On plateau is live.

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• On Saturday, Laurent Ruquier hosted the premiere of O

  n is live

  , on France 2.

• "I find a new dynamic, with a new production, a new team," said Monday at

  20 Minutes

  the host who presented the last of

  We are not lying

  in July.

• "It feels good to be a little alone at the helm," says Laurent Ruquier, who does not regret the absence of columnists.

“It was good to stop.

, we were short of breath.

There, I find a new dynamic, with a new production, a new team, that makes the difference.

It is a Laurent Ruquier in a good mood that we found this Monday noon in his box at RTL.

His new talk show,

, got off to a good start on Saturday on France 2, bringing together more than 800,000 curious people.

A first that the facilitator agreed to debrief with

.

What did you think about, on Saturday, thirty seconds before the live?

To nothing.

I was serene, confident, happy.

I was a little less afterwards because I had an ear problem, so it was complicated for me to do the interview with Eric Dupond-Moretti.

It seems that it was not seen too much, but I struggled.

Not in substance, but in form.

They just talk to me in the headset to tell me how much time I'm going over.

There I had no way of knowing how long I was doing (laughs).

I was pissed off.

I dragged this technical issue around for a while, because there was no tape recorder after the interview.

We had to wait for Philippe Caverivière's to be able to resolve this.

It wasn't the fact of not hearing that bothered me.

I thought viewers must see dangling I don't know what.

Are you satisfied with this premiere?

Where I was happy - even if we took a little too long here, but we are going to settle all that - is that I did not run after time.

Because it is there, the danger of the direct: we say to ourselves that it is absolutely necessary to hold the time and we waste interviews by running after the stopwatch.

I like having the time to say what I want, to do what needs to be done.

With this decor, the atmosphere is cozy, the tone of the program is generally benevolent ...

Yes and no, it will depend on the shows and the participants, I imagine.

The program is also affected by health constraints.

We cannot yet do exactly what I would like us to do.

We are at 75% of the final result that I would like with guests scattered around the audience, for example.

Already know what adjustments you're going to make for the Saturday show?

I'm going to try to take fewer main guests and more guests, who, we will say, will be added to those who are already scheduled.

We will try to do only two hours instead of two and a half hours for the first.

But there are plenty of things that were added at the last moment like the song by Catherine Ringer in tribute to Juliette Gréco or Jean-Marc Généreux who came when it was not planned.

You conducted this interview alone.

Not having a columnist around, is it more liberating?

Or is it more complicated not to be able to rely on them a little?

It's a choice.

It's a very quick exercise, it's not an interview that lasts for an hour as was the case in

.

It's more of a ping-pong, like what can happen in some morning radios.

I must say that Dupond-Moretti was rather benevolent, it went well.

It will not be a politician each time either, we will take someone who has been talked about during the week and who can also be an artist, a sportsman ...

Don't you regret not having any more columnists?

Not at all (laughs).

I already do so many collective shows that it feels good to be alone at the helm.

And then, there are enough people on the set for people to intervene, right or left, in every sense of the word.

The three young comedians did not intervene much ...

That's a mistake: I should never have said that they could intervene at any time.

That was not the goal, they had to be installed before we did their column.

Indeed, if they wished, they could react to what was being said, but it put a pressure on them that had no place.

We will settle this.

I found them to be very good when they were all together for their streak.

We staged them badly, but it was a first, we have to adjust things.

The first was followed by 805,000 people, are you satisfied?

Yes, it's not bad, it allows you to start on a good basis.

One of my struggles over the past few years has been telling reporters to stop comparing today's numbers to yesteryear because the way you watch TV has changed.

Now we're going to stop comparing the last seasons of a show with the first ones.

There, you only have to compare

with the other talk-shows: we manage to achieve between midnight and two in the morning roughly the scores that the others [

,

…] between 7 and 9 p.m.

We don't cut the program into two parts, so the average is calculated over two and a half hours of programs, there are obviously less people at 2 a.m. than at 11 p.m., it's logical, people will sleep.

So we start on a new basis and we will realize that we do not have a bad score (laughs).

The reactions were generally positive, especially on social networks ...

Social media, whether good or bad, is not what matters to me.

I always knew it was not representative.

The opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Everyone, I only use it if it emerges a majority.

In 1991, at France Inter, a member of the public came to see me at the end of a program to tell me that Laurent Gerra, whom I had just hired and whom no one knew, was poorly imitating Johnny Hallyday.

People had in mind the caricatural imitations of Johnny by Thierry Le Luron or Pascal Brunner.

Gerra was the first to emulate the singer's real voice, people didn't know that.

You also have to get used to the public, educate them, make them understand… Under the pretext that someone was telling me that, I should have fired Laurent Gerra?

Well no, you have to be stubborn and do what you want to do.

This has always been my line and just because there will be a thousand people on social networks telling me something does not necessarily mean the truth.

Have you had any feedback from TV or entertainment professionals?

I think the show had a good impact with artists who could wait to see what the premiere was before coming.

I think we should have a crowd.

It was the case before, but there is a real beautiful atmosphere, if only for the live.

The show has potential that, as we can imagine, will develop over the weeks.

It's nice

Getting around to be on a Saturday night, at 11 p.m., on a set, isn't that a drag for potential guests?

The

debate

was put together in 24 hours.

It was not planned, we first started on a debate about the Covid.

We managed to convince designers, rather courageous besides, to come.

I'm not worried about that.

Obviously, there are people who will tell you that they are on the weekend, but those who are on sale can predict.

On the other hand, we will have all those we did not have before [

was recorded on Thursday at the beginning of the evening]: those who are on stage and who will be able to come at the end of their show.

Did you receive a message from your former producer Catherine Barma?

(Laughs) No, none.

Neither encouragement nor reaction.

Is the tea towel still burning between you?

There is no tea towel, so it cannot burn.

(Laughs).

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