The Canal + group definitely does not like parody.
Comédie + broadcast Monday evening the comedy set "Les Etoiles Espoir Humor du Parisien 2020", and we learned on Wednesday that the sketch by comedian Edgar-Yves "La corruption" was cut during the editing, thus censoring a passage aimed at Vincent Bolloré , boss of the Canal + group, to which the Comédie + channel belongs.
"The Canal spirit" is only a distant memory.
After the Sébastien Thoen affair and his Stéphane Guy episode which worries employees, the Canal + group is once again illustrated by its difficulty in accepting parody, when it is targeted.
We learned on Wednesday that a sketch by comedian Edgar-Yves was censored on Comédie +.
The group's channel broadcast Monday evening the comedy set "Les Etoiles Espoir Humor du Parisien 2020".
The passage of Egdar-Yves was cut, making by the same to disappear a passage evoking Vincent Bolloré, boss of the Canal + group.
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A request from the artist?
In this sketch entitled
Corruption
, comedian Edgar-Yves denounced with laughter the corruption that was rampant in Africa and the businessmen who prosper there.
Among them, he cited the boss of the Canal + group Vincent Bolloré.
Reached by
Le Monde
, the producer of the evening ensures that it is the comedian, unhappy with his performance, who asked that his passage on stage disappear.
The comedian has so far neither confirmed nor denied this version of the facts.
The sketch was part of a show dedicated to emerging comedy talent and was recorded last November.