He presented the midday game on France 2 Everyone wants to take their place for a year. Jarry, a comedian above all, reconsidered his decision to leave the adventure so well.
At 47, Jarry is preparing to go on tour throughout France with his new show alone on stage. Titled Good manthe latter, which he will perform from this Friday, October 11 in Marseille and until April 12, 2025 in Floirac, speaks about the true nature of the comedian – or at least what he says about it. In the trailer for his show, the father of twins Mia and Sun, aged 8, arrives on stage wearing a superhero cape marked with a J and connects themes with humor and derision: feminism, attacks and threats received, education… As part of the promotion of this one man show, Jarry gave an interview to our colleagues from Gala. Thus, during a scuba diving session (his passion), the comedian returned, among other things, to his brief experience hosting the France 2 game Everyone wants to take their place.
“I said I would only do it for one year“: Jarry looks back on his departure from Everyone wants to take their place
Based on the Côte d’Azur with his husband and their two children, Jarry practices scuba diving whenever he has the opportunity, as our colleagues report. A passion which was born twelve years ago during a trip to Greece and which has never left him since. “Last year, however, he had less opportunity because he was in Paris three days a week to record Everyone wants to take their place and three days on stage“, write our colleagues from Gala. A presentation that only lasted a short time, and for good reason. “I said I would only do it for one year“, confides the comedian.
Jarry passionate about scuba diving: “Underwater no one can talk to me“
Now very well known to the general public, Jarry, who organizes his professional life between alone on stage, television and radio animation, theater and cinema, confided to Gala an intense need to recharge your batteries underwater. The one who admits to having “need to make people laugh, go on stage, make films“and who”loves to entertain“, was immediately seduced by “the feeling of freedom“and the fact that”under water no one can talk to me“. A solitude which allows the artist “to find one’s (my) balance. It’s the world of silence, the exact opposite of my job where I’m in the light and I have to deploy crazy energy, make people laugh“.
