Invited by Aurélie Casse in C l’hebdo on France 5 this Saturday June 15, 2024, Anne Roumanoff explained why she attacks political figures less than at the start of her career: “For example, on stage, I do a sketch about wokism, where I play a butcher. Her husband is not deconstructed, her daughter is woke. She’s trying to become woke, but she’s having trouble because she doesn’t have the references… And it’s a sketch that unites people. It makes (everyone) laugh. But that’s what interests me. No making a value judgment by saying ‘that’s rubbish’… I don’t think that makes Schmilblick move forward, especially at the moment“. The one who prefers to unite than to divide is therefore totally opposed to the dismissal of Guillaume Meurice which caused a wave of resignations at France Inter. The comedian who reiterated his joke about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the station’s air of public radio should not have been fired according to Anne Roumanoff.
“If there is a somewhat extreme regime in France that comes…“
“I find it ridiculous to have fired him, that’s it. I don’t like this joke, but I think he has the right to do it. Humor has the right to be clumsy. Humor is attempts. We are living in difficult times. It’s complicated to do humor, we don’t get it right every time! There are all kinds of humor for all kinds of people. There is no good humor, there is bad humor! If we start to decide that, then what’s the next step? If there is a somewhat extreme regime in France that comes, will we make commissions to say ‘this joke is good, not good’? I find thatIt’s okay, they suspended him… It’s okay! It shocks me There were precedents, there was Stéphane Guillon, there was Nicole Ferroni, Didier Porte… Throughout time, there have been comedians who got fired, but I find that in the current period , there are perhaps other emergencies than firing Guillaume Meurice for a failed joke. I’m shocked, I don’t think it’s good“, she insisted. As for the reason for “disloyalty” which was put forward by France Inter to justify the dismissal of Guillaume Meurice, Anne Roumanoff does not believe it for a second: “Yes, disloyalty, yeah… All you have to do is listen to Charline’s column (Vanhoenacker)I think it’s quite funny about that“.
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