“Can we be insensitive to art? "" Recognizing your duties, is it renouncing your freedom? "" Is desire the mark of our imperfection? “Not funny at first glance these subjects of philosophy of the bac fallen in recent years. However, it is indeed a comic show that the comedian Karim Duval will host around this theme on June 17 in the premises of Sciences Po in Paris alongside eight colleagues: Haroun, Fabien Olicard, Florence Mendez, Alex Ramirès, Verino, Alexandra Pizzagali, Sebastian Marx and Wary Nichen. The show, new and original, will be broadcast live on the Pasquinade platform created by Haroun. The ticket office has just been launched.
The date was not chosen at random: it is this Thursday, June 17 that some 700,000 high school students will work on the philosophy test.
Around 9 a.m., as soon as the subjects of the 2021 baccalaureate are revealed, the comedians will also get to work.
No long essays for them, but the need to choose one of the topics of the day, dissect it and transform it into a 7-minute sketch to be produced on stage the same evening.
Funny, preferably.
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The idea was born in the head of Karim Duval the day of the bac 2019. “It starts from a frustration: I did not take the essay when I passed the test… Since then, every year, I like Take a good look at the subjects that fall and ask me what I would have chosen… ”At his side, on June 17, a nice set of comedians, in the first row of which we find Haroun, who released at the end of last year“ Les Pensées d'Héractète ”, a strange book responsible for“ desecrating philosophy ”.
“I read a lot,” he told us last winter.
People are often afraid of it when it can be accessed through very simple, funny and easy to read things.
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"The stand-up brings more and more background"
Is humor the best entry point to ask questions about the meaning of life, the state of the world, the evolution of society?
Karim Duval believes in it.
"The stand-up brings more and more substance, the company gives food for thought, to ask questions, we just choose the humorous form, but we do not bypass them, we really treat them, without getting caught. the head.
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Not afraid of seeing several comedians choose the same theme on June 17th?
"There will surely be duplicates, but given their different profiles, they will bring the subject to really varied terrain," promises Karim Duval who would like to make this show an annual meeting.
So, is stand-up philosophy's new best friend?
You have three hours ...
“Le Bac philo des humoristes”
, June 17 at 8:30 pm, broadcast live from Sciences Po in Paris on
pasquinade.fr
. Ticket: 12 euros per household.
