Putting together a collection of jokes around the Covid-19 pandemic is the project to which the journalist, host and writer, François Jouffa, guest of Europe 1, contributed on Thursday.

Coming to present "Pearls of the Covid", published in March, he gave a few examples of jokes proving that despite the crisis, humor remained omnipresent.

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"I said to myself 'we see jokes all over the internet, if we don't write them down, no one will remember them."

This is how François Jouffa, journalist, host and writer, came up with the idea of 

Perles de la Covid

 (Éditions Leduc).

"For sociologists, historians, in the future, I think it would be very interesting", he continues, Thursday on Europe 1, estimating that "today, we have the right to laugh about it".

In this book, published in March, François Jouffa and Frédéric Pouhier have identified jokes, diversions of sentences, parodies formulated and disseminated since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

"We gleaned that in the offices - when there were people, because now the offices are empty", explains François Jouffa.

"In the metro, people look sad, but at the same time, they joke a lot. And then, on social networks ... Facebook, it looked incredible!"

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"We can laugh cough"

"It was really not easy, and yet there was humor everywhere," continues the co-author of

Pearls of the Covid

.

Among the examples which amuse him the most, the sentence "We can laugh with cough" which he found inscribed on the walls.

“There is a lot of political and socio-political thinking, too,” he said, referring to words aimed at the president and the government.

"There's a joke I've seen all over the place, it's 'doctor, when is this pandemic going to end?', And the doctor says 'no idea I have' know nothing about politics' ".

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And media coverage of the pandemic is no exception.

"When there is an emergency and you want to call a doctor, you dial 15 and you come across the switchboard of a continuous news channel, like LCI or BFM", laughs François Jouffa.

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"You have to stick together", "you have to blow your nose in the elbow"

Among the anthology of jokes compiled by the authors of the book, François Jouffa also evokes many schoolboy jokes imprinted with an "old French Gallic misogyny that we saw everywhere", as illustrated by the joke saying: "the coronavirus, it's a bit like a row with my wife, when you think it's over, there's a second wave coming ".

"Me, what amuses me is that for weeks then months, we were told 'hold on tight, we must stick together!'", Continues the writer. "" And then another. aside, there are ministers who told us "to blow your nose, you have to blow your nose in the elbow".