Bernard Campan goes behind the scenes of a “flagship sketch” of Les Inconnus and reveals a little-known anecdote

This Tuesday, June 18, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine was at the helm of a new issue of C to you in the company of his usual columnists. In the second part of the show, the host received on set: Hélène Nougaro, Mathias Malzieu, Takis Candilis and Bernard Campan. The latter is starring in the film by Takis Candilis, The child who measured the world, which is released in cinemas on June 26. Bernard Campan is also known as one of the members of the flagship trio Les Inconnus alongside Didier Bourdon and Pascal Légitimus. This cult trio made an impression for their essential sketches that they performed in theater and on television between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.

Bernard Campan returns to this “flagship sketch” strangers

On the set of C to youBernard Campan was surprised to see again an extract from the Télémagouilles sketch that he and his two sidekicks played on the set of the show Caroline TV in June 1989. The 66-year-old actor then reacted: “It’s the flagship sketch, it’s the one that launched us“, he said before recounting the genesis of this sketch: “I remember that on the radio, we had already written it, we had even tried it as a foursome, at the time there were four of us with Seymour [Brussel]. We even did it on a show of Patrick Sébastien who played my role, the presenter and the four of us made two couples. I would like to see this version again, I don’t know if the INA has it… In any case, the sketch evolved, it took time for it to arrive at this form, with three people, and for it to be successful“, he confided.

Bernard Campan ready to return to the stage with Les Inconnus?

If Télémagouilles remains to this day one of the most memorable sketches of the trio of Inconnus, it is not about to have a second life on stage, according to the words of Bernard Campan who confided in Tele-Leisure last January: “The stage, Didier Bourdon and Pascal Légitimus care about it, me much less. I don’t see myself doing Télémagouilles again for example, for lots of reasons. There is a question of energy that we no longer have. On stage, It was very muscular, it didn’t stop. We did very physical things, sketches that we couldn’t do again. We did acrobatics, even if they weren’t very professional. I don’t think we could do it again. Then people would see Les Inconnus doing things they’ve already done, because I imagine we’d be doing 80% old sketches and 20% new ones. The new ones, if they are less good, I find it difficult, and the old ones, they will not be able to be better (…) I understand the public obviously, but for us, I think it is not the right one engine, the right inspiration.”