Patrick Sébastien talks about the beginnings of Jeff Panacloc and makes a link with his departure from France Télévisions

This Tuesday, November 26, Patrick Sébastien was invited to the set of At Jordan'son C8. He spoke about the beginnings of Jeff Panacloc, revealed in The largest cabaret in the world.

Patrick Sébastien has enabled many artists to get started thanks to his cult show, The largest cabaret in the world. The host received magicians, trapeze artists and even ventriloquists and one in particular: Jeff Panacloc. It was thanks to this show that the latter began to experience success and he owes a lot to Patrick Sébastien. “He taught me how to work, the stage, television… I came from nowhere, I did cabaret, I had never done television in my life and especially as a ventriloquist, I had says I'll never go there“, he confided a few weeks ago in the podcast Between you and me.

Patrick Sébastien looks back on the freedom he gave to Jeff Panacloc

This Tuesday, November 26, Patrick Sébastien was invited to the set of At Jordan's on C8 to confide about his career. He returned to the beginnings of Jeff Panacloc on his show. The host refused to ask the ventriloquist to calm down during his passages and to make his puppet, Jean-Marc, say fewer horrors. On the contrary, he advised her to do more. “I knew what people liked and I told him: 'Above all, don't hold back, if there's any trouble, it's for me,'” he confided. And this decision may have cost the host dearly.

Patrick Sébastien looks back on his departure from France Télévisions

Jeff Panacloc had confided that it was the freedom that Patrick Sébastien gave him which would have tipped the scales for his ouster from France Télévisions. “It was unexpected. I think it's because he also gave me this freedom not to think like others think. It's this freedom that we need, I think that's what punished him, too“, he declared. Comments confirmed by the main person concerned. “The hassle was obviously for me, it's also part of the fact that I was fired at one point because I'm intractable on that.“, he declared. It was he who asked Jeff Panacloc to change his sketch and “to light” the guests present that evening.