Almost never recovered from the end of The night was (still) youngJean-Sébastien Girard is already embarking on another adventure: his first single show, A child like no other. A few months before her first break-in date, she told us about her eagerness and her anxieties about this move, which she describes as “a huge challenge”.
Jean-Sébastien Girard admitted that perhaps he could not have measured the extent of the emotional shock that the end of The night, which ended on Sunday night after 10 years on the airwaves of the ICI Première. He even saw Olivier Niquet cry, first according to him.
I am very affected. I had underestimated the emotional charge that would come with that, I had underestimated the mourning, he explains. Something happened to our bodies and to our heads that we did not see coming. The similarity that comes to me is really the pain of love.
Like Olivier Niquet and Jean-Philippe Wauthier, he already has some projects for the future, but he admits he has a hard time figuring out what to do next for the moment. However, he knew he needed to get up quickly, as the break-in period for his first show would begin at the end of the summer.
Just for Laughs added a layer to that pressure by announcing the official premiere ofA child like no otherscheduled for March 14 and 15 at Olympia in Montreal and March 27 at Salle Albert-Rousseau in Quebec City.
No net for the first time
From the very beginning, the radio man said with a bubbly personality that he probably wouldn’t dare to laugh alone. His first show was an idea proposed to him by Just for Laughs.
At first I said no. Because yes, I’ve been writing jokes for 10 years, and I think I know how to do it, but I know the language is different. [sur scène], he says. On the radio, in a particular context with two friends, if I have a joke that isn’t nice, it can be so in reaction, outrage, or when I’m being booed. There, I knew I was the only one I could trust, that no one would pick me up when I was about to fall.
The 46-year-old comedian said he could have rested on his success and continued making radio rather than risk breaking his neck in an environment he didn’t really know. I’m not Louis-José Houde, I don’t have that kind of talent. I didn’t bar eitheropen mics [scène ouverte au public]first parts, I didn’t go to school [nationale de l’humour]he summarizes.
Celebration of difference: Jean-Sébastien Girard’s bread and butter
This reluctance, Just for Laughs expected it, and it was also the reason why Jean-Sébastien Girard finally agreed to jump. Just for laughs said to me: “We don’t want you to be a comedian, we want Jean-Sébastien’s The night“, he explained. I mean, have fun with the variety aspect, a little kitsch, with my love of old things. It won’t be a monologue in front of the microphone for 1h30, that’s for sure.
If the title of his show is a nod to the song A child like no other (Ziggy)written by Luc Plamondon and Michel Berger for starmania in 1978, it was largely a celebration of difference in the broadest sense, a treasure he has learned to appreciate over time.
This refers to differences in general. I realize that’s what most worked on The nightthis is when I said about my childhood, my adolescence, my unique tastes, my perms, my tastes in musiche summarizes.
I say on the show that when I was little, I prayed to be normal, to be like everyone else. But a chance that God didn’t or he didn’t listen to me, because this difference is my bread and butter now.
This text was written froman interview conducted by Catherine Richercultural columnist on the show 15-18. Comments may have been edited for clarity or brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
