In “Pasté simple”, Paf’s most sarcastic comedian revisits his youth. A one-man show between ferocity and tenderness.
His own thing? Satire. From current times or from the past. In his second show, Pablo Mira delightfully sketches the 1990s, the decade that saw him grow up. Unconditional fan of “Club Dorothée” and “Dragon Ball Z”, the man who will turn 40 in 2025 presents his nanny, Toshiba, a damn big second mother who only had six channels at the time and took care of him from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. It's subtle, far from the Manichean observation, funny and as spicy as Têtes brûlées, flagship sweets from a period when kids wolfed down sugar and additives morning, noon and evening. Condensed milk was consumed pure, while listening to the Spice Girls, who “did more for the emancipation of women than Simone Veil”. And they did it in crop tops!
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Columnist in the show “Quotidien” since 2018, the comedian will be wearing his Converse during the end-of-year holidays at the Folies Bergère. “It’s there that I didn’t have a Molière. It destroyed me,” he half-jokes. He was named alongside Fabrice Éboué, Élodie Poux and Sophia Aram, 2024 winner. “At the beginning, I was like 'I'm not interested', and I got caught up in the game. In my brain, the box competition has been activated. »
The vocation box took a long time to come into being. As a teenager, Pablo Mira frolics and dreams about the shows of Franck Dubosc – whom he saw three times at the Comédie-Caumartin -, Élie Semoun and Anthony Kavanagh. On television, he feeds on “Guignols de l’info”, “Groland”, “South Park” and sketches from Les Inconnus. After the baccalaureate, he chose journalism, did radio, and worked on documentaries. During his first internship, he looked for “where the UN aid funds intended for Afghanistan went”.
The turning point came in 2012 with Le Gorafi, which he co-founded. A box and a seesaw
Humor is still far away. He tried his hand at the stage around the age of 23: “It was hard, even horrible,” he remembers. I was not in a good position, not competent enough, too shy. » After each failure, it takes him between two and three months to recover morally and return. The breakthrough came in 2012 with Le Gorafi, a parody information site, which he co-founded. It's a box and a seesaw. Here he is, capable of writing funny things and making a living from them. Little by little, he set foot on TV, then on France Inter and returned to the theater, ready to defend an entire show. “The first time I played it, at the end of 2017, there were things that needed to be corrected, but I said to myself: 'Now I can die in peace.' »
Pablo Mira grew up in Hauts-de-Seine, in Bois-Colombes, in a middle-class family, where you don't show your feelings. “We work, we feed mouths, and that’s it. » He sums up his family experience in the 1990s in his own way: “Not horrible, but definitely not 'guedin'. » In the last part of his show, he shakes up his habits and talks about himself, his non-desire to have children, among other things. “It’s an issue with my sweetheart. It took me thirty years to find my place, I want to take advantage of it. » The climate emergency reinforces his position. As a teenager, he struggled. A classic! “I didn't feel good about myself, I didn't fit in anywhere. » With the girls, it was difficult: “There were plenty of cool teenagers, but I wasn't in the good groups. I had no style. So I developed jokes and comebacks. If I am a comedian, it is mainly thanks to that. » We would almost be grateful for his lackluster youth.
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Pablo Mira, “Pasté simple”, at the Folies Bergère (Paris IX), from December 26 to 31, and on tour throughout France.
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