Five cult Ardisson sequences to review on his Youtube channel

Host Thierry Ardisson launches “Arditube”, his best television hits on Youtube.

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• “When we have spent thirty-five years of our life on TV, we are delighted that it is stored somewhere”, explains Thierry Ardisson to 

  20 Minutes

  , about the INA Arditube channel launched on Sunday.

• The host comments for us on five videos from this channel, including his interview with Gorbachev and his short experience as a tiger trainer.

• Thierry Ardisson should soon return with a new show.

  “It's the best idea I've ever had in my life,” he says.

Here is a gold mine for television fans, and a promise of discovery and slices of laughter for those who know nothing about it.

On Sunday, the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) launched, with the famous host and creator of television concepts Thierry Ardisson, Arditube.

That is more than 5,000 videos summarizing thirty-five years of iconic shows on a YouTube channel.

We find there the very first season of

, launched by Thierry Ardisson in 1995, all the dinners at

(the address where Thierry Ardisson organized these televisual raouts), extracts from

, the show filmed at the Palace then in the Le Shéhérazade nightclub.

And many other "hits" of the one who is nicknamed "the man in black".

20 Minutes

asked this tireless creator, author of “70 interview formats” as he puts it, to select five cult sequences, from the most to the least known.

And comment on them.

Let's go !

The interview with John Lennon (or rather his double)

You had to think about resuscitating John Lennon.

Thierry Ardisson did it, in 1994, all in humor, of course: his doppelganger in each of his answers, or almost a Beatles song.

“I dreamed of interviewing John Lennon, it's the great regret of my life.

So one day I was like, "It's okay I'm going to interview a lookalike."

Finally I ended up interviewing John Lennon!

», Comments Thierry Ardisson with a laugh.

Thierry Ardisson, tiger trainer

“A crazy story,” says Thierry Ardisson.

In 1994, for the return of France 2, the host performed a dressage number with the tigers of Yann Gruss.

It took courage ... "The trainer warned me: the tiger can sense when you're afraid ... So I train for eight days.

The first day of filming, I wake up sweating and there I start to be afraid.

It was hellish.

I walked into the cage and, honestly, it gives a damn, There were four behind me.

When they're in front it's one thing, but when they're behind your back it's scary.

It was not a walk in the park, ”recalls the host.

Ardisson's first TV, after having released a scoop

"Hashish I really like, anyway in tennis we never check", balances Yannick Noah, in August 1980, to a journalist from

.

At the end of the summer, poor in news, these comments including the rounds of the gazettes and provoked a reaction from the Minister of the Interior at the time, Christian Bonnet, who questioned the interviewer… who was none other than Thierry Ardisson.

This earned the future star of the small screen a passage at 13h TF1.

“It took on a national scale, I had to go and defend myself,” explains Thierry Ardisson.

Moreover, it was one of his first “formatted” interviews, since it took place within the framework of a series of interviews entitled “Police raid”, with two color photos showing “the arrest” and "The confession" of the interviewee, and a hat written "like a detective novel".

Mikhail Gorbachev does "Little Hands"

In this delusional interview sequence on the set of

, in 2001, Ardisson immediately asked the former Soviet leader, who had closed half of the alcohol outlets in 1985 : "You only drink beer, eh, a little beer?"

".

From this interview, Thierry Ardisson remembers two things that marked him: "I wanted him to do little hands [it was one of the show's gimmicks, encouraging the public and invited to raise their hands and wave them. ].

And that was a great victory.

Second thing, there was François Bayrou on the set, who was like a 2 year old child.

I thought to myself: "If he's elected president it's going to be a disaster."

Because I don't think the main quality of a president is to be sympathetic… Especially now!

"

Thierry Ardisson offers drugs and "sex" to Brad Pitt and Matt Damon

For this provocative and deliberately rowdy interview, Thierry Ardisson had, in 2004, completely rebuilt the decor of

 at the Bristol hotel, where the actors Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle were housed.

“I had done the same with 

, to interview Frank Zappa, at the Plaza.

It went really well with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

Americans on promo are adorable because, in the United States, we get paid to promote, so they do that very, very well.

And then it's my provocative side… ”The funniest part is at the end, according to us… We'll let you watch!

Did you feast?

Don't be nostalgic, Ardisson warns us: Arditube is not a way to hang up, to say goodbye after so many years.

“When you've spent thirty-five years of your life on TV, and done interviews that deserve to be watched, you're happy it's stored somewhere.

It's just that at one point all that work that should have been ignored is preserved.

"

And to entrust us with the imminent arrival of a brand new program, on which he does not yet want to say a word… We will only know this, which we bet hard that he must have thought about it with each new program: “C ' is the best idea I have ever had.

"

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