On stage and on television, Guy Bedos was a tireless humorist. He never stopped making fun of the average Frenchman, the one we nicknamed the "beauf à Cabu", a macho nothing, always moaning, flirtatious, misogynist, a bit of a reaction With his tone of voice sometimes touching, sometimes thunderous, he enthralled his audience, stroked them in the direction of the hair, and the second after him struck without warning a humorous spike a bit vacharde.
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Born a juggler, an electric showman and over-vitaminized, Guy Bedos spent his time walking the stage, occupying the field like a boxer in a ring. Over the skits and decades, Bedos will have enriched his palette of roles, ranging from social satire to sudden poetry. Always fair, sometimes vulgar, but never rude, his chiseled sketches remain monuments of humor and humor.
1) The Dredge (1972)
It is necessarily the best known sketch by Guy Bedos. Not only because he appeared on TV during the blessed era of entertainment programs by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier, but also because he presents the duo with his accomplice and future wife Sophie Daumier. A man invites a woman to dance a slow dance. The idea of genius is to have integrated a sort of voiceover, in the form of a stream of thought that comments live on the sequence. On the one hand the feeling of the young woman. On the other, that of man. The two are obviously not at all in phase, while in the image we are witnessing a nice moment of dance very close to the body. "Casually, I'm packing, me. Go ahead Jeannot! " Brags Bedos. And echoing, Sophie Daumier replies: "But he's stupid, this guy! "
2) Holidays in Marrakech (1975)
Sophie Daumier and Guy Bedos take on the role of anti-Arab racist tourists this time in this fierce, funny and politically incorrect sketch. In the role of the air hostess making an announcement, the singer Dani specifies that this sketch is of anti-racist inspiration. The Bedos -Daumier duo fires all fire. The first sentence has remained in the annals: “Marrakech! it disappointed us! ” And this little bourgeois French couple on vacation to make their annoyances worse. Finally explode. "When the plane landed, only Arabs. The carriers? Arabs! The customs? Arabs! The king? Arab! They are in their house! "
3) The announcement made to Odile (1975)
This time Guy Bedos is alone. It’s an extremely funny and cultivated skit about the breakup. Her character arrives with a small black suitcase, a ridiculous hat, a scarf and a distressed look. He begins dullly: "I'm leaving Odile! I leave without looking back ... No hair on the nose! Bedos plays perfectly the banal type which gobbles up disheveled sentences of style: "You don't believe me but I'm leaving, as Verlaine says so badly." Or again: "I need his hoarse breath on my burning neck. Final point. I need his hands looking for new sounds on the keyboard of my senses Odile. I was thinking about it this morning at the office at Crédit Lyonnais. ” As for the fall, it is excellent ...
4) Pink card (1986)
The sketch remained famous for its first sentence: “Ah! Football, football, football, football, there is more than that ... Football, football, football, football ... France is fucked up. " In the manner of Michel Serrault in La Cage aux folles, Guy Bedos embodies a homosexual who shares the life of a goalkeeper for the less egocentric:" He dives for a yes or for a no. So his shorts, to get them back in the wash ... "or the famous line:" Shoot me penalty! Get me a penalty! ” A sketch not really to the glory of the ball.
5) Life is an Italian comedy (1986)
While giving his show at the Cirque d'Hiver, Guy Bedos first pays homage to a "rital": Michel Colucci, alias Coluche (who has just died) "Hi buddy! See you soon ! Hi Michel! And then on a catchy musiquette reminiscent of that of Nino Rota, he begins: "Life is an Italian comedy, you live you cry, you cry, you laugh!" Comediant! Tragediante! ” Bedos is masterful in this sketch on actors, artists: “My dear friends, my comrades, join me in the parade! I am an old moth-eaten lawyer, tired of having shouted my lies and my truths too much on the charity trestles of my comedia dell'arte. On the track, on the track, the artists! It's our role to be funny! ” Bedos continues with a touch of sadness, melancholy and a touch of nostalgia in his voice ...
