Anne Roumanoff talks to Thibaut Gauthier on “Figaro La Nuit” The comedian on tour with “The Experience of Life’ explains why she comments on current events in her shows. “At the beginning, it was a pigeon shoot where I attacked this or that politician with a bazooka.

Today, it’s so difficult for politicians that I have more empathy with them,” she confides. The fifty-year-old who studied at Sciences Po explains that she began to develop a “bistro pillar” persona at the start of the war in Iraq.