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"Obviously, I fault": fired from Canal + after a sketch, Sébastien Thoen speaks for the time

2021-02-20T14:01:15.261Z


Licensed at the end of 2020 from the encrypted channel for having participated in a hijacking of the “Heure des pros”, the program of Pascal Praud, the comedian


Licensed at the end of 2020 from Canal + for having parodied “L'Heure des pros”, Pascal Praud's show on CNews, Sébastien Thoen had so far remained silent.

The troublemaker of the encrypted channel for 18 years, the former host of the "Hard Journal" and columnist of the "Canal Football Club" had been negotiating the conditions of his departure.

An agreement is now complete.

He gives us his first interview.

You were fired after a parody of "The Hour of the Pros".

What was the point of the sketch?

SEBASTIEN THOEN.

First of all, I would remind you that with my comrades from Action Discrète

(Editor's note: including Thomas Séraphine and Julien Cazarre who participate in the sketch)

we are, historically, the only group of right-wing comedians from Canal +.

So, at the base, Pascal Praud is the family.

This sketch for Winamax was more a tribute than a parody.

Since we talk about everything and can say everything there, the authors imagined that we were talking about football.

For fun.

By pointing to the very right-handed tone that reigns there ...

For you, defending France means adopting a right-handed tone?

Let's move on.

Not everyone liked it ...

Two days after it was put online, I am with Dominique Farrugia when Gérald-Brice Viret

(Editor's note: general manager of the Canal + antennas)

calls me and tells me that the sketch poses a big problem internally.

With Dom, we fall from our chair, we hallucinate, but given the proportions that it takes, I realize that obviously, I made a mistake.

🎙 “We don't know the subjects better than you do, but we are paid, that's the difference.

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💥 Pascal Prono, Michel Saindoux, Jérôme Leroi-Merlu, Lionel Messiha: #LesSopronos present the time of the predictions.

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- Winamax Sport (@WinamaxSport) November 19, 2020

Fired from Canal for a parody, you are thinking of a joke ...

Or a hidden camera for "TPMP"!

Seriously, if there is a crazy buzz, that Pascal Praud falls into depression or returns to FC Nantes, why not… But we did our usual 300,000 views, no one shouted scandal… Ok, we don't have to not bang on the colleagues of the cantoche, but there, it was not bad, we had fun with them.

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But you knew it would cringe a bit, right?

Of course not, we are not in Burma!

Especially since Pascal Praud called me very quickly to tell me that he had laughed.

He added:

At worst you will have a layoff

.

But at the same time Seb, you and your friends, you are uncontrollable, but in what world you live, there!

We can't do that anymore.

He redid the sketch for me, but seriously.

I was laughing.

Don't you suspect him of making a few phone calls to complain?

Pascal is a nice guy, watch his shows, he would go to the fire to defend freedom of expression.

Can you imagine him contradicting his own ethics by attacking a clown?

It would be serious.

So you are fired.

How do you react?

I am a liberal and do not have to judge the decisions of the boss, he is king.

But I am sad because Canal is my channel, I was there for 18 years, I gave everything for the subscribers, I was even in police custody with Action Discrète.

Winamax is a partner of the channel, I had the right to work at their place, Praud had a laugh, Messiha too, he tweeted it and even contacted me

(Editor's note: in the sketch, he played Jean Messiha, former RN often invited on CNews)

.

I offered him a meeting on Pascal's set, I had no feedback.

On Europe 1, Gérald-Brice Viret explains that the sketch is not in question, but rather your associates ...

I thought I would pay one day for my closeness to former members of the French Connection

(Editor's note:

He co-directed the documentary “Marseille gangsters” with Jérôme Pierrat)

, but obviously the public enemy n ° 1 is Julien Cazarre with whom I m 'displayed

(he laughs)

.

Well.

Having said that, I think like Canal: Cazarre is a con.

But he's good.

And humor, that does not laugh: it is better to work with a con, but hey, than with a nice but incompetent.

Journalists from the channel signed a petition to support you ...

It was nice, thanks to them.

Unfortunately, we saw it this week, there are three who signed it and who must regret it

(Editor's note:

three signatory freelancers whose channel has separated according to

the Days

and The Team)

.

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Like Stéphane Guy who greets you live, and fired for that…

I am so sorry for him.

Stéphane is a great guy, he will bounce back… His message was adorable with the reference to Coluche.

Even if I confess that, if I like what Coluche was doing, it is not worth Franck Gastambide.

You must not fall out of line at the moment at Canal ...

It's not for me to judge, it's for the subscribers.

You do not collapse under the support of your fellow comedians?

The old people, yes!

In protest, the trio Eric and Ramzy and Jamel canceled their subscription to Gulli, Jonathan Cohen and Manu Payet went on a selfie strike for 2 hours on Instagram, and then Nicolas Bedos withdrew from Twitter, that's me. touched!

But you have to relax, my story is not so serious.

When I hear in the underground restaurants that Marina Foïs thought of boycotting the Caesar entertainment out of solidarity, it goes too far!

Especially since we found an agreement with Canal.

They have been very courteous from the start.

Courteous?

Of course !

I made a mistake but we found a deal!

Vincent Bolloré knows that I have always been corporate and he has not forgotten that I had said he was a great guy in the leftist magazine Les Inrocks.

But above all, like me, he is very religious and knows that there is worse than the judgment of the industrial tribunal, there is the last judgment.

Jesus sees everything, you have to be careful.

Suddenly, between benevolent people we found an agreement.

“I made a mistake but we found a deal!

Vincent Bolloré knows that I have always been corporate and he has not forgotten that I had said he was a great guy in Les Inrocks. ”/ LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet  

As a result of this agreement your speech is free today?

Yes !

Of course, I cannot say: “Gérald-Brice Viret is a truffle and Pascal Praud and Vincent Bolloré, two mentally ill.

Good, I don't want to and it's not true.

Otherwise, I'm free and we leave each other as good friends.

You don't blame them?

But why since it is Cazarre's fault as they said?

Already in high school he was stealing my boyfriends, I should have been wary.

Beyond that, I think I no longer had a place at Canal.

The future was more for Jonathan Cohen than for Sébastien Thoen.

After all that, Canal spirit are you still here?

With this direction, I don't worry about the channel, the best is yet to come.

But it is certain that, and Internet users have said it well, with my departure, the Canal spirit took a serious step.

Fortunately, there are still Mouloud Achour and Pierre Ménès.

And then, let's dream bigger, why not Cyril Hanouna on Canal en access in September?

It would be great.

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This interview, we read it in the first or second degree?

As you wish, that's the Canal spirit!

But everything about Praud and Messiha is first degree, they will confirm.

What are your projects ?

From the scene !

And continue Winamax.

Still doing sketches with wigs at 44, it's admirable.

The cinema who cares, everyone in fact, that does not mean anything anymore.

But, Netflix wants to produce the Discrete Action biopic with Pierre Niney in the role of Cazarre, it's beautiful!

Otherwise, I'm preparing a documentary with Jérôme Pierrat and Victor Robert and finally, I'll be in Thierry Ardisson's new show on France Télévisions.

It's nice.

Have you now understood that you shouldn't spit in the soup?

False!

You must not spit in the Seine!

It's not pretty and that's how the Covid goes around ... Otherwise what are you doing here?

Shall we watch a "Hard Journal"?

I will miss that!

Source: leparis

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