Long gone are the days when Max Boublil was chaining hits on YouTube. Songs oriented for the most part "sex", which had shaped a first show, The musical man , played between 2010 and 2011. Since then, it is on the big (and small) screen that the comedian was mainly illustrated: Les Gamins , Robin des Bois , and more recently Play and Selfie. So many roles that allowed him to step back to better return to the stage at the start of the year.
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In his soberly titled New Show , Max Boublil tells in great detail about his new life. Today aged 40, father of two daughters and a Parisian boho on the edges, he delivers a more biting performance than usual. He says it himself at the very start of the show, he no longer wants this label of "nice" . He also knows how to be "stupid and mean" . And prove it
After asking the house for a "music of his age" , it was on the notes of Nirvana 's Smells Like Teen Spirit that Max made his entry into jeans, t-shirt, basketball. We understand how he takes us when he talks about his age and announces that he now has more "doctor than ass" numbers on his phone.
Max Boublil on the stage of L'Européen. ANTHONY MARCO
"I'm so focused on diseases that I can give you the name of any drug," he says, challenging the room to pinch him. "Angina?" , asks a spectator. "Viral or bacterial ?, " he countered. Paracetamol for one, amoxicillin for the other! ” Max Boublil has aged? Its audience is also more mature; In any case, it has nothing to do with the horde of teenagers who once filled the rooms to sing loudly ChatRoulette , J'aime les ugs and other comic successes. At the European Theater, on February 13, there are many adults, quite a few parents with their children, but also some older people whom he does not hesitate to chamber.
Doting father
At 40, Max Boublil feels "ripe" inside, wiser and responsible. But the "packaging" took a hit. “When I was twenty, I mixed all the spirits. Today when I drink two glasses of natural wine ... " .
If there is one thing that makes him happy now is parenting. It is a source of inspiration without limits. Parents of students from the private Catholic school where he enrolled his daughters to psychologists who diagnose burnouts for five-year-olds, everything goes well. The comedian evokes for example the jealousy which he feels towards his daughter of seven years. “When we organize a birthday party for him, at least fifteen of them come. There were four of me at the time, including my parents . The modern birthday snacks are also a blessing for parents: "Thank you very much, three months that we were waiting for a niche to make love" .
When we organize a birthday party for him, at least fifteen of them come. There were four of me at the time, including my parents
Max Boublil on his daughter. Max Boublil manages to tackle more serious subjects like politics and religion. He expresses his “disgust” for the Insubmissives whom he assimilates to Zadists and greets the right-wing voters of a well-placed “Wilkommen” . "Young gesticulating Jew" by his father, Catholic by his mother, he develops the good - and the bad - inherited traits on each side, certainly exploiting the clichés, but in a dexterous and just manner. “My Jewish part taught me to be wary, to think about myself. My Christian part taught me to denounce my Jewish side ” .
The originality of these subjects, which have been discussed many times, could leave a lot of noise, but the floodgates always hit the target with enchanted spectators. Max Boublil's natural sympathy and communicative smile have nothing to do with it.
New Show, until March 28 at the Théâtre de L'Européen, 5 rue Biot 75017 Paris, Places: 29 euros