After the sudden death of comedian Guillaume Bats, the Théâtre Le Paris launched a call for applications to offer its hall during the Avignon Festival to a young talent to replace him. "Leaving a void in the programming of Paris would be adding emptiness to the void that Guillaume will leave behind and it does not make much sense," wrote the director of the establishment Gregory Cometti, on Facebook.
Then he immediately added, "We will simply offer the room for the duration of the Festival on the slot that Guillaume was to occupy" to a "young comedian still unknown" because "I doubt very much that he would have wanted, instead of his show, a closed room so deserted and that the laughter is silent between 19:40 and 21:<>".
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Guillaume Bats, suffering from glass bone disease, died at the age of 36 in early June. He was on tour for his new show Inchallah and was scheduled to perform from July 7 to 29 at the Off festival in Avignon, one of the great events of the theater in France with the "In". "The only limit to our initiative will be to find a quality show that can defend itself among the 1,650 shows that will be present in Avignon in July. The idea is not to send an artist to the pipe breaker," concluded Grégory Cometti.
Guillaume Bats, prince of self-mockery, passed away on June 1, 2023
Born in Reims in 1987, Guillaume Bats had revealed a difficult life path: abandoned by his mother before his first birthday, he had spent a large part of his childhood between orphanages and foster families. According to the website Dark Smile Productions, the artist began developing sketches in the late 2000s before being noticed for his corrosive humor on the internet and in television shows, such as "On ne demande qu'à en rire" by Laurent Ruquier. Produced by Jérémy Ferrari and Éric Antoine, Guillaume Bats has made several tours in France, already performing during the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Festival Off d'Avignon.
