Comedian Arnaud Demanche plays his show "Apollo world live" on Friday evening.

Invited on this occasion of "It feels good" Thursday, he looks back on an astonishing experience that he and his parents lived, while he was still a student in a rather strict high school, and determined to become a comedian.

INTERVIEW

He knew it very, very early on.

Arnaud Demanche knew from his adolescence that he wanted to become a comedian.

He even entered it in the information sheets that his high school teachers made him fill out, in the "desired future profession" box.

But this desire for professional orientation detonated in his private high school in Versailles, as he amused himself Thursday at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff in

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"It has not earned me friendships," confirms the comedian with a smile.

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The pupil Arnaud Demanche was enrolled at the Lycée St-Jean-de-Béthune, in Versailles.

"It was a private Catholic high school, with scientific boys", remembers Arnaud Demanche.

"And me, I show up in the literary section and I say that I want to be comedic, in the middle of all those who wanted to be a doctor or resuscitator, or who wanted to be some kind of Emmanuel Macron."

"My parents were scolded by my teachers"

The future comedian therefore contrasts in this setting, to the point that his mother is summoned.

"What is your son going to do telling jokes on a stage? You have to straighten him up, you have to raise him differently, madam", then advised him the management of the establishment.

"My parents were scolded by my teachers", laughs Arnaud Demanche today.

But the comedian does not hold a grudge against the environment in which he grew up.

"It's funny to see that, under the pretext that they come from a conservative background, some people think they are mean. But not at all," he observes.

"It is really the stake of a democracy: to discuss between people who do not agree. A democracy, it is a consensus, it is not the dictatorship of the majority."