“Can we laugh in times of war?“. This is the question regularly asked to Charline Vanhoenacker, while armed conflicts continue in Ukraine and the Middle East. This Monday, October 7, the comedian raised this question in the morning of France Inter, at occasion of the commemoration of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. A day which was the starting point of a destructive war led by the Jewish state in the Gaza Strip, before the conflict ended. extended to southern Lebanon, stronghold of Hezbollah, the pro-Iran Shiite militia.
“Don’t let them bother preparing a TV banner for nothing”
“Nowadays, when you are a comedian, at any time, you have to be able to answer questions at the philosophy baccalaureate level.“, says the columnist, who returned to the morning show at the start of the school year after the cancellation of her show “Le Grand Dimanche Soir”.It is perhaps due to the fact that nowadays, the philosophers invited on the news channels do the job of comedians”, she continues. “But it is above all an indication that the climate has become tense, because before the question I was asked at festivals was, ‘Is Léa Salamé nice?’. And now people ask me ‘can we laugh in times of war?’“, she smiles.
“In these cases, you should not give up. So I answer ‘well yes, fortunately, I hope so, because if we wait for a ceasefire to make jokes, we will all die of boredom’“, continues the host and comedian, not without throwing a little dig at the competition. “So, I think there are enough experts to comment on what happened on October 7 so as not to have to subject you to a comedian’s column on the issue. I’m saying this for CNews, so they don’t bother preparing a TV banner for nothing.” she adds, referring to the Meurice affair, before continuing her column. Puremédias invites you to discover the sequence above.
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Charline Vanhoenacker has always criticized Vincent Bolloré’s controversial channel, which is sometimes virulent against France Inter, and the public service as a whole, in particular through the voice of Pascal Praud. In November 2023, after the first controversy surrounding Guillaume Meurice, who described Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyou as “kind of Nazi but without foreskin“, the host then declared in his editorial of “L’Heure des pros”: “It is not only Guillaume Meurice who deserves to be removed from the France Inter channel, it is perhaps also his management“. In its broadcasts, the channel then regularly singled out the comedian, with Pascal Praud going so far as to support his suspension.
“The far right, CNews… import and artificially stage a war cultural“explained Charline Vanhoenacker in an interview with the newspaper “Le Monde” in July. “Obviously, you have to designate an opponent. The easiest thing is to attack us, satire, because it’s very easy to take a joke that’s worked as second degree and pass it off as first degree. It’s intellectual laziness. By transforming Guillaume’s joke into a TV banner on a continuous news channel, we truncate its grammar, we make it highlighted information. This is extremely dishonest“, she concluded.
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