We know the Warholian warning and its quarter of an hour of fame.
In the 1990s, the best way to do this was to have a camcorder, wait for one of your children to fall down and then get up laughing;
to send everything to TF1 and to wait until Sunday afternoon for the sequence to be broadcast in front of five to six million viewers.
For nearly 20 years, "Video Gag", an adaptation of an American format, offered real fake disasters with a lot of excessive sound effects, ridiculous dubbing and recorded laughter for the happiness of young and old.
In July 1990, the Une therefore launched its blooper of anonymous people.
Presented by Bernard Montiel alone, then with Alexandre Debanne, the program aims to be good-natured and light.
Even the worst of disasters must end in a burst of laughter.
The father of the family confused the soccer ball with the head of his son?
What a joke!
The grandmother who loses her dentures when blowing out her candles?
What a mess!
A cat hanging from a family fan blade?
Regalade!
With a big smile and texts from the latest
Almanach Vermot
, Montiel and Debanne have fun with these little daily hassles that are badly filmed, badly framed, badly edited.
Parodied by the Unknowns
Scorned at the time, these funny little videos advertise YouTube or Tik Tok.
Anonymous who dream of a moment of glory and do everything to please.
The Médiamétrie curves were worth all the thumbs up at that time.
Over 40% market share.
We laugh, but we relax on Sunday in the late afternoon before returning to school.
Adults console themselves by watching the parodies that flourish.
In “Gag video”, Les Inconnus happily make fun of a completely strawberry Bernard Montiel, not finishing his sentences, and pipeauté videos.
Patrick Timsit makes a cynical sketch of it on stage: “
One day, in the street, a kid falls from the seventh floor.
I was just below.
Pot shot.
I didn't hesitate for a second, I only listened to my courage: I filmed it.
Two versions: one with screams for 8 p.m., one with funny sound effects for
“
Video Gag
”.
To switch to
“
Video Gag
”
, you can kill your kid….
But beware !
Funny !
Otherwise it won't work!
I don't have a kid, I take the neighbor's.
He lends it to me because he doesn't have a camcorder.
»
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Programs that operate during the day often pass off the radar.
Far from the “prime time” spotlight, they fulfill their function quietly: from the audience without overshadowing the stars.
Rid of the two Alexandres (Debanne then Delpérier), Bernard Montiel, still perfectly tanned, leads his little boat: 2 days of filming for ten recorded programs.
And ten weeks of vacation as an ambassador for the Accor group.
But one day in February 2003, Montiel exploded in midair.
The small world of the PAF
At the microphone of Jean-Marc Morandini on RMC, the one who prides himself on being an actor in "Under the sun", swings on everything that moves: Arthur, Bernard Tapie.
But especially on Video Gag.
“
I don't look at her, but I'm ready to sign for a hundred years.
It pisses me off.
I sit my fat ass on the bench and collect my check.
The small world of the PAF buzzes with this outing of the ideal son-in-law.
At TF1, we laugh yellow.
Étienne Mougeotte and Patrick Le Lay, the powerful bosses of a first channel which does not appreciate differences in language, decide to dismiss the host.
The consensual M. Météo Sébastien Folin and Olivia Adriaco take over a program that continues to entertain the children.
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But here in 2006, Google bought YouTube, a promising video platform.
In 2008, the site has hundreds of millions of users.
Each person can film and post their own videos (gag) on their channel.
The best blunderers see their performance rewarded with a rain of “likes” and advertising revenue.
The television is outdated.
After YouTube, will come Instagram, Snapchat and Tik Tok, addictive achievement of anything.
The somewhat forced smile of Bernard Montiel is missing.
And as his hilarious double (Bernard Campan) would say: “
I tell you (
sic
) to see you again and by the week…
”
