It was in the early 1970s, when joie de vivre wasn't just the title of a TV show.
Guest of honor, one evening, of this meeting created by Henri Spade and co-presented by Jacqueline Joubert, Jean Yanne is then one of the symbols of this “
joy of laughter
” which marked the glorious thirties.
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The peasant humor of Bodins does not make Paris laugh
His radio broadcasts or his appearances on small screens, during which he multiplies iconoclastic sketches, such as
The driving license
or
The circulation in Rome
, make him a master of the absurd.
This man with the impassive face, falsely grumpy, has a sense of derision, the dimension of which can be measured by discovering, or rediscovering, this “
Joy of living
”, proposed by Madelen.
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He tells, among other things, how, in his early days, he found himself, rue de Rivoli, in a strip club playing fake existentialist plays, in front of tourists convinced that they were in a cabaret in Saint -Germain-des-Prés.
He also gives the reply to Daniel Prévost, one of his accomplices, on Sunday on RTL, in the program “
When I hear the word culture, I open my transistor
”.
It was on these waves that one morning in spring 1968, he launched into the microphone "
it is forbidden to forbid!"
".
He did not imagine for a single moment that this phrase, totally improvised, would then appear on countless walls during the events of May.
"When I hear the word culture, I open my transistor"
Jean Yanne
This slogan is in line with an irreverence and an anti-conformism which have earned it, on several occasions, being censored by the leaders of RTL, France Inter or the ORTF, and dismissed without warning, despite the thousands of letters of protest. 'an audience that plebiscites him.
At a time when there was no talk of "
indictment
", he also found himself before a judge for having explained, in front of cameras, how to remove, using a simple screwdriver, this shoe. Denver, which the police used in the 1960s to stop the cars of offending motorists.
It was at this time that he shot a sequence of the
Invisible Camera
, regularly broadcast: a dialogue, in Cannes, during the Festival, in front of the Carlton, where he asks the valet to store his bike.
In front of the latter's astonishment, he explains that he is too lazy to take him up to his suite.
We also owe him countless sketches, including
How to reduce unemployment,
which he played with Valérie Lemercier.
Among the cult moments of his career are also sequences of
Big Heads
with Jacques Martin, starting with this program where, facing the duo launched in an unpayable improvisation, Philippe Bouvard could only ask one question in 90 minutes!
A genius jack-of-all-trades, Yanne has also signed, with graphic designer Tito Topin, a comic entitled
La langouste ne pasera pas
.
On this occasion, he imagined a dialogue in which he managed to place a pun that he has always considered the worst, and therefore the best of his career: in a train, a traveler asks the controller if they are still far from Valves.
To which the attendant replies: "
There are six stations from there to Vannes
".
An exchange that could only make a splash.
Jean Yanne and Daniel Prévost in L
a joie de vivre
, a program presented by Jacqueline Joubert