How comedian Virgine Hocq turned her father's funeral into a party

INTERVIEW

She organized the funeral, and says she loved it.

The brilliant and wacky Virginie Hocq sees the positive everywhere.

To the point of having made his father's beer production into a party, and to have been inspired by it to write part of his new solo on stage, 

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, the Belgian comedian explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone how she proceeded. 

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A saucy song in the church

There is a phrase which is a must for funerals, and which has the gift of horrifying Virginie Hocq, "sincere condolences".

"I have the impression that one sticks forks in your eyes and that one hurts you more, whereas one would like to support me", explains the humorist.

To avoid this painful moment, she wanted to honor her father with a funeral and a reception full of good humor.

“I transformed everything,” she recalls.

"We drank shots. My father would have loved it!"

In the church, Virginie Hocq decided to sing in front of the altar a traditional song of Walloon folklore, 

A song that is also, and above all, a saucy song.

"It's a little song that tells of a little bird that came out of its cage. So like that, it looks very springy, very pretty," admits the Belgian comedian.

"But there can be a double meaning, of course."

A choice of programming that detonates and to which the parish priest was initially opposed.

"I saw him in the background tapping his sandal and his sock to the rhythm of the music", laughs Virginie Hocq.

"And when he saw my mother-in-law after the ceremony, he said, 'But this funeral was good!'. It's great to say that, isn't it?"

A comedy show, "not therapy"

The comic tribute to his father's joie de vivre didn't stop there.

Virginie Hocq recounts that her father was sorry that her last name was written regularly with a "k" instead of "q".

“I said to the tombstone cutter 'Sir, I would like a huge' Q ',” she says.

"What I liked was to imagine all these people who go to the cemetery and who would say to themselves while looking at the graves' Madame Duquet, who died the week, Gérard Barrat, I did not know, Oh my God what a big ass! '

And just that thought already makes me smile. "

The goal of this show is not to help the comedian to grieve.

“I have to make it clear that I never do therapy on stage, never,” she explains.

"I just find that this subject of the show is common to all the audience. But I'm not talking about intimate things, I add from something that everyone has already experienced or will experience at some point."

Virginie Hocq finally explains that her father's funeral ended with an unexpected exclamation in such circumstances: "Happy baked everyone!".