Arnaud Demanche's incisive pen tickles listeners every morning without ever scratching them.
Since the start of the school year, the comedian has been raging in the morning called “Apolline Matin” on RMC.
In the company of several journalists and editorialists, and facing the presenter Apolline de Malherbe, he unrolls at 7:20 a.m. a first chronicle entitled “Arnaud Demanche pirates le 3216”.
During this humorous pastille of about two minutes, he slips into the skin of listeners or celebrities who react to a topical issue.
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Then, an hour later, he returns to the studio for a second, longer column based on the hot topics that agitate the news papers.
The war in Ukraine, galloping inflation, multiple shortages: rare are the comforting subjects, apart from the course of the French football team in Qatar.
But for him, laughter makes it possible to de-dramatize anxiety-provoking news.
"I have the impression that it's good for people and that it helps them to pass a test with more lightness
," says Arnaud Demanche.
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From time to time, his chronicles make one cringe.
Recently, the comic criticized Fnac for choosing to withdraw from its shelves a board game created by an anti-fascist site.
After his remarks, he received a shower of criticism on social networks who accused him of being an extreme leftist activist.
While he could ignore these invectives, he has been having fun with them for several days through a false political coming out according to which the whole morning band would be a leftist clique.
"I'm having fun!
There are categories that do not have much second degree: radical feminists, hunters or even Islamists, ”
he says, specifying that he does not exclude any area, however sensitive it may be.
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On stage, in his show
Faut qu'on parle
, Arnaud Demanche can push the envelope even further to the delight of the spectators who settle in his rooms.
To thank him, at the exit of a theater located in Lorraine, fans offered him a total of seven bottles of Mirabelle plum eau-de-vie.