CRITIQUE – In his new show, the comedian shoots on sight The New Ridiculous. Bloody! To be seen at the Théâtre des 2 Ânes, in Paris.
“I don’t want to offend anyone, I definitely don’t want any trouble,” warns Régis Mailhot, falsely contrite, microphone stuck to his ear. Praised at the Avignon 2024 off festival, his new show aptly titled Les New ridiculous these days delights the audience of the Théâtre des 2 ânes, a place of national disobedience and impertinence where Pierre Dac and Jean Yanne once raged. He announces to « boomers » numerous in the room as his coach who advised him to be “inclusive”. “What is medicine?” »laughs the comedian. “No one should be excluded, don’t worry, there will be something for everyone, tatatatata…”. Régis Mailhot pulls no punches: “Today, to say hello to your next-door neighbor without offending them, you have to do an LGBT BTS. »
Provocative, the columnist of the Revue de presse de Paris Première takes shots at today’s tartuffes without warning, he says. The policies that make the news. François Bayrou who does nothing but does it well, Emmanuel Macron who “gave more work to comedians than to the French”Anne Hidalgo who has the good idea not to run for a third term, she specializes in the “reorganization of chaos”. But not only that. The singer criticizes “wokism”, a “virus that comes to us from the United States, the black Friday of thought”, artificial intelligence, “benevolent”environmentalists, anti-racists “not white white”THE «grossophobes» or religious people.
Assassin verb
The rebel does not spare himself, nor his former classmates from his high school in Nantes where he was already an insolent student. “His” family, including “his” son Robert also passes there. The nephew of Jacques Mailhot who also writes for Laurent Gerra – the sketch on “Islamic fashion week” is his – does not shy away from any biting diatribe: “You know that there are more weapons of war in the Paris suburbs than in all of the French military bases… It’s confusing, but at the same time it’s reassuring. If the Germans come back, they will never get beyond the ring road. ». His murderous verb hits the mark with every blow.
With a master’s degree in management from a business school in Paris, “specialized in human resources”Régis Mailhot shows that you can laugh at anything and with anyone. Discovered by producer Gérard Sibelle, he was right to abandon communication to devote himself to irreverent humor. After having studied at “Fou du Roi” with Stéphane Bern on France Inter, the « sale gosse »says the specialist in crowned heads, follows the only ones on stage believing that playing jesters is healthy for society.
The New Ridiculous, Theater of the 2 donkeys (Paris 18e), until April 26.
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