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This is how the lunar interview conducted by Raphaël Mezrahi with singer Nicoletta began. The comedian, then at the start of his career, was still little known in the artistic world and was thus able to improve his coverage as a young journalist. The television sequence where the man trapped the singer with questions, each one more unusual than the last, has become cult. This Saturday, April 20, it was one of the subjects discussed by Éric Dussart and Jade in “We are redoing TV”.
The singer, who was their guest, listened to the famous interview again with kindness and playfulness. Several decades later, the sequence still made him laugh.
“We never tire of it, obviously neither do you
,” said Éric Dussart, seeing Nicoletta laugh.
“It’s still funny
,” she added. The interviewer then tried to understand when the singer understood that it was a
“bogus” interview.
“He became a friend”
“I didn’t really understand what was going on but I knew there was something weird. I said it at one point in the interview because I was surprised that a TV channel would do something with a guy like that
,” explained Nicoletta, subsequently calling the comedian an idiot.
“He has become a friend
,” she reassured the listeners before addressing Raphaël Mezrahi directly:
“I apologize my little darling, I didn’t know you
. ”
And to continue:
“at the end I told him that there really weren’t many like [him]
. ”
Éric Dussart still insisted that the artist had taken the joke particularly well at the time, which had not been the case for all the victims, like Jean-Pierre Castaldi who had almost come to blows. . “
You have to understand, he was an intern. It was his first interviews, I didn't know him. And I still sympathized, I wasn't going to finish the poor boy, he was just starting out. I'm human enough for that. »