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Guy Bedos: from Mitterrand to Montebourg, itinerary of an artist hired on the left

2020-05-28T20:09:48.363Z


The comedian, who died this Thursday at the age of 85, was illustrated by his radical positions and his many political rants.


He was not one of those "disengaged artists" whom he liked to laugh with Desproges. Like Albert Camus, he was a pied-noir and a leftist. A few days after his friend Jean-Loup Dabadie, Guy Bedos left to join the academician "in Paradise" announced his son Nicolas on Instagram. He was 85 years old.

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Talented music hall artist alongside Barbara, humorist with always biting press reviews, Guy Bedos will also be illustrated by his often radical political stances, like his support for the Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti or the Corsican separatist Yvan Colonna. He was said to be the ambassador of the "left caviar" would have proposed to " fart the mouth of Manuel Valls ". From Marine Le Pen, whom he accused of "campaigning Adolf Hitler" to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, "fairly disheveled tribune" , no one was immune to his ranting or his exercises of admiration. You don't really mince words when you are " no longer as sure of your tastes as your disgusts", as he explained to the newspaper Le Monde when he bowed out on stage, after repeated farewells.

Nadine Morano, Marine Le Pen ... They will have been several tried to silence him becoming the court. In vain. Even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, whose "censorship" he denounced , broke his teeth in court. His comfort, Bedos found in Mitterrand's arms in 1981. "I was more sure of my giscardophobia than of my mitterrandophilia" , he joked, acknowledging having succumbed to the "dandyism" of the former socialist president. " He was a great indulgence with me, I had all the rights, " he explained recently to France Culture. I had a great story with Mitterrand but I blame him for having hidden too much from us. "

Love of the slingshot

He had refused Mitterrand's legion of honor with a mixture of impertinence and wit. "I am one of those clowns who prefer the red that you put on your nose to the one you hang on your buttonhole, " he wrote in a missive sent to the Élysée Palace . After Mitterrand, all the presidents "tried to hit on him" . Jacques Chirac ? Too little for him, even if he admitted to feeling "sympathy for this guy" . Nicolas Sarkozy? " I turned it on because I wanted to know how it worked this" little thing " ". Francois Hollande ? "Less tolerant than Mitterrand. He sulks me . "

It will ultimately be a rebellious who will find favor in the eyes of Guy Bedos. At the socialist primaries of 2016, the humorist appeared publicly alongside the former Minister of Economy and Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg, with whom he shared a love of Algeria. "A sincere guy, and nicer than Manuel Valls" . The Catalan was his last Turkish head.

His commitment, he summed it up by quoting his friend Desproges. "I know we are trying to put this on the ring ," he said. You have to be a loose artist as Desproges said. Me I absolutely respect the artists released. I don't ask others to do what I do. First because it is my niche. The more I am alone on it, the better. ” No one, it is true, has committed to it like him ...

Source: lefigaro

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