"I am attacking the ambient hypocrisy. We have fallen into the society of symbols to serve this or that cause, while the real ills of society are never treated", laments to AFP Fabrice Eboué, 44 years.
On the stage of the Déjazet theater, a long-standing Parisian hotspot for libertarian and anarchist artists, he unleashes giggles by attacking certain feminists, one of his favorite targets.
"Extreme, stupid and counter-productive feminism, I can't take it anymore...", he asserts.
"What tires me is all this exacerbated militancy. Not just feminism, but also veganism. It starts with good intentions and it becomes political and social forces trying to influence society...", said the one who had received in 2014 the silver medal for "macho of the year" by the feminist movement "Les Chiennes de garde".
A resolute follower of political incorrectness, the comedian, who grew up in Normandy in a Franco-Cameroonian family before being propelled by the Jamel Comedy Club in 2006, surfs, always on the razor's edge, between caustic humor and assumed irony and scrutinizes major social issues.
"A comedian must be a reflection of society, which unfortunately is increasingly violent. By tackling difficult subjects, I help people breathe a little...", adds the comedian who prides himself on having created in college "an anti-fayot front".
Caustic, limitless
"My stage persona is still a bit cartoonish...I'm not arguing that it was better before. For those like me who grew up in a pre-digital era, I feel closer to a man of 90 years in Ehpad, dead for two years, only a 20-year-old... I'm not saying that the time is a period of idiots: it's just a perpetual renewal of things and generations... “, he observes.
In his show which, after the Parisian dates, will go on tour, he thus settles their accounts with social networks "which dehumanize relations": "before, the bistro was the symbol of conviviality, with sometimes virulent but human exchanges, the eye to eye," he said.
"Humour is a weapon and I have always been scathing and caustic, without limit. I don't pretend, on stage or in my films...", also says this great admirer of Jean Yanne.
"It's fun to push the cursor far!", He continues before ending with an anecdote about... Emmanuel Macron.
"I have two things in common with (him). We were born in 1977 and we attended the same school, La Providence, in Amiens. We were not in the same class: he was a year ahead and me, a year late... That's how there is one who ends up comical and the other president!", Still says Fabrice Eboué, a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
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