He's a bit of a former colleague of ours. When he was 14, Tom Villa completed his 3rd internship in the local edition of Melun du Parisien. "As a teenager, I was really thinking of becoming a journalist," slides the man who now writes a humorous column three times a week on France inter. It was a great experience. "
"Trainee", a label that has long stuck to the skin of this young thirties with a youthful face, a sparkling eye and a mischievous streak, as he shows in a jubilant second one-man show called "The Named … ”The chronicle he kept for four years in the Thierry Ardisson show“ Salut les terriens ”? That of the "Intern". His recurring role in "Munch", the successful series of TF1 with Isabelle Nanty, whose 3rd season has just restarted? That of a lawyer… trainee. "Yes, still an intern: not paid for ever, " he laughs.
It is false, obviously. Because the former teenager from Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne) has grown in thickness, climbed quite a few steps. On the radio, on TV, he ticks almost all of the prestigious humorous boxes, former columnist for Morandini and Ardisson and now a regular speaker at Nagui (France Inter) and Michel Drucker (France 2) for whom he sketches the news or the guests.
Every month, he produces a dozen tickets. “With all the social networks, all the comedians, it's not easy to get to be the fastest, to have an original point of view and to try, as a bonus, to be intelligent. He does this very often.
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And also lend his pen to others. "I like to work behind the scenes when it is in the service of a talent that I do not have." Tom Villa thus co-wrote the new show by ventriloquist Jeff Panacloc, big box with 450,000 tickets sold. “In this case, I work for a duo. It's bread bless this monkey puppet who dares everything. He also worked in 2017 on the writing of the Césars ceremony alongside Jérôme Commandeur, for whom he also worked on Europe 1.
A thousand times more powerful to get a laugh in a room
It is precisely in a beautiful master of ceremonial tuxedo - which he released when he hosted Les Étoiles du Parisien on television in December 2018 - that we find today on stage this young man with the physique of "ideal son-in-law" As the name of his previous show said. A show in the form of a true-false award ceremony which allows him to tackle a whole bunch of themes - yellow vests, disability, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès… - in a rhythmic manner.
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With, as on the radio, this delicate art of being both spicy and sweet. "I don't want to shock to shock," he sums up. I now think I am in tune with the tone I have in my column, even if it is very different. The stage is an indescribable pleasure. The difference when you have 2 million listeners on the radio and 200 people in your room is that the 200 people ... you have them in front of you. It's a thousand times more powerful if you get a laugh. The little intern has come a long way.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 3.5 / 5
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