More than two million viewers settle down every evening on his “Canap '”, the title of his column in “Quotidien” on TMC.
And this Tuesday evening, at 9.15 p.m., Etienne Carbonnier offers them an evening of nostalgia.
With a look back at 1995. “We've had the idea of doing a show on the 90s for a year.
But it was impossible to do everything in 1h30, he says.
So we focused on that year, in the middle of the decade, with a presidential election, social movements, hits, cult shows… ”
With his laughing eye, the 32-year-old columnist looks back on many forgotten sequences.
And some can be disturbing, whether they are racist and sexist slippages from the game show "Pyramid", or homophobic jokes in "Les Grosses Têtes".
“We show things as they happened, he defends himself.
It was necessary to find the right balance between those who say that everything was better before and those who revolt against everything.
We are judging a time that was not ours.
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Hard work
And to immerse himself in the year 95, Etienne Carbonnier did not count his hours.
“Since I had to write my column every night in
Quotidien
, I also worked in the evening, on weekends…, he says.
I am young, it does not matter if I am a little tired.
"Because in the opinion of his colleagues, the owner of the" Canap "is not idle.
Far from the image that he can sometimes release.
“It's a lot of work,” he confirms.
But I understand that, from the outside, we may not realize it: everything is done to appear simple.
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“My father thought that I arrived at 4 pm, that three slaves had prepared the images for me… And he told me that it was zapping.
Except that no, it is not
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”, defends the columnist.
Prejudices that can weigh on this great shy in the city.
“I have impostor syndrome.
I don't look at myself, for example, I'm not comfortable with that, ”he explains.
The only way for him to compensate: work.
"Besides, I must leave you, I have my column for tonight to finish!"
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