What an inexpressible pleasure to be able to listen to his funeral praise. This joy Guy Bedos could have felt during his lifetime when Pierre Desproges had the rare idea - and inevitably one day ... premonitory - to pronounce a compliment in his own way to the one who had dubbed him into the profession of laughter. seeing in him a disciple who possessed all the qualities to become in his turn the undisputed master of absurd humor.
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The scene takes place in 1986. For "his twenty years in the business" Guy Bedos gathered all his friends for a program called My most beautiful story of humor . Jean-Loup Dabadie is seated on his left. Pierre Desproges, in front of his desk, decided to offer him a gift, a eulogy ... very premonitory. The flight, as it should be, is lyrical. It looks like Bossuet or Malraux: “Guy Bedos is no more. France loses the best of its sons and ramps it up the best of its fires. What can we say about the confusion which crushes us and the pain which ties us apart from when our hearts both cohabit, to use the cry of love of the toad. ”
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“The pro-Palestinian petomaniac Guy Bedos, born Bedostein, has just passed the weapon to the left. "
Pierre Desproges imagining the obituary of Guy Bedos written by MinuteBedos and Dabadie stand side by side. Tears in their eyes, they impatiently await the continuation of these wet praises of acid. Desproges imagines that the whole press will cry for Paulette's lover the day after his death. And even Minute , the far-right newspaper, under the pen of a certain "Adolphe Croix-de-Feu" braided him with a very posthumous laurel wreath, writing that "the pro-Palestinian petomaniac Guy Bedos, born Bedostein, just passed the gun to the left. "
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The last paradox of this prayer, Pierre Desproges, a little younger than his colleague, saw himself survive him. And as it should be, he promised to continue his work: "Goodbye the artist, go in peace. You can count on me, I will take care of your widow and your dear public. ” Today 34 years later, the two "comic troops" are back together in paradise, protected by Saint Jean-Loup Dabadie, for the best and for the laughter.
The eulogy from Pierre Desproges to Guy Bedos, declaimed ... in 1986.