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The Eye of Ina: tribute to Pierre Tchernia, the number one public friend

2021-10-16T05:22:21.956Z


In his sixty-year career, he has been much more than Monsieur Cinéma. While we are celebrating the five years of his death, return, with the Madelen platform, on the career of an audiovisual giant through the program "La joie de vivre".


When we evoke the memory of Pierre Tchernia, we do not wonder about what he did, but rather what he did not do! In more than sixty years of career, he produced, animated and directed countless programs which touched several generations of spectators. He marked the 50s / 60s with "Public Friend No. 1" where on Thursday afternoons, then a school break, he would sit among the kids to announce Mickey's cartoons and a new one. soap opera, titled… "Zorro".

The following decades were marked by “Monsieur Cinéma” but also by a prestigious trophy, the “Rose d'or” of Montreux. He was rewarded for having produced

The Arroseur Arrosé

, a humorous tribute to the Lumière Brothers. The last big meeting of his long career is still remembered:

Children of TV

. This duet with Arthur allowed him to pass the torch, and his knowledge of the world of entertainment but also of the Televised Newspaper of which he was one of the pioneers. His piece of bravery, remains a report in 1955 in Lens, at the bottom of a mine. The images allowed the families of the “black faces” to see, for the first time, a father or a husband at work.

Tchernia often evoked, with a smile, this time when he was also part of the team responsible for commenting on images from abroad, that no one had time to see before they were broadcast.

In 1949, after having miraculously managed to slip his hundred kilos into a tiny cabin, he sometimes had no other solution than to tell absolutely anything about a subject he knew nothing about.

The number of televisions being then limited to a few thousand, nobody really noticed.

Read alsoDiscover the program “La joie de vivre” dedicated to Pierre Tchernia here.

His sense of humor is the common thread of the tribute that Madelen pays him exactly five years after his death. The INA offers on this site one of the rare events where he did not play the role of the presenter but that of the guest: a “Joie de Vivre” that Henri Spade and Jacqueline Joubert devoted to him in 1970. The title of this evening could have been "the joy of laughing". He had a lot of fun, especially with a few of those he found that evening on the set.

Among them, there are Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault.

In 1953, he happened to be at Tabou, a cabaret on rue Dauphine, the night the duo made their debut on stage in a sketch evoking an “international star” called “Jerry Scott”.

Jean Carmet also appears in the credits of this evening.

Their common love of the absurd allowed them to invent what they called “the cake game”.

When the chance of the shootings allowed them to find each other, they went in search of a pastry with the least tempting window possible.

They would come in and order the most dubious cakes.

They ate them on the spot, pretending to be delighted, before warmly congratulating the saleswoman.

They did this for nothing, for the pleasure of a fit of laughter which, sometimes, unfortunately preceded a liver attack.

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Source: lefigaro

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