“WataBedford”, JO and Fitzgibbon: Bye bye 2024 concludes the year with variety

To greet the new year, the team of Bye bye 2024 – with Guylaine Tremblay, Claude Legault, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais and Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse as main performers and Simon-Olivier Fecteau as director – offered a wide variety of sketches, where political controversies, television events and online phenomena were intertwined.

Special guests were seen throughout the show, including Richard Martineau, Charles Tisseyre, Corneille, Katherine Levac, Arnaud Soly, Louis Courchesne, Boom Desjardins, Jean-Sébastien Girard, Yannick de Martino and the comedy group Les Appendices, just to name a few.

True to form, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais launched the Bye bye in song. Except that this time, it was by song to answer that the comedian, who has been participating in the show since 2020, opened the ball.

Again this year, lots of forests burned. But tell yourself that at least there is one tree that was sparedhe sings for example, then showing a birch on which is inscribed the n-wordin reference to the controversial video of Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, who hugged a tree on which an English variant of the n-word had been engraved.

But today I wear a smile. Because tomorrow it’s going to be worse! concludes Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais several times in his refrain.

Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre and Northvolt

Politics, both provincial and federal, unsurprisingly occupied a good place in the end-of-year sketches.

In an issue segmented throughout the show, former minister Pierre Fitzgibbon (Sylvain Marcel) is found, for example, at the casino, at the roulette table. If he initially refrains from betting on anything with taxpayers’ money, he ends up betting on 3, then… on Northvolt. Enough to arouse the indignation of one of his advisors.

We can’t lose, it’s Swedish!

In another sketch, Pierre Poilievre (Guylaine Tremblay) plays a guessing game, where he must find the names of famous people. Taylor Swift, Mickey Mouse, Céline Dion, Santa Claus and even Pierre Poilievre… The leader of the Conservative Party only answers the same thing every time: Justin Trudeau.

The news of recent weeks will also have found a place in the show, while a parody of reality TV Survivor Québec comes to pit Justin Trudeau (Simon-Olivier Fecteau) against the rest of his party, illustrating the growing criticism of the Prime Minister within the Liberal Party itself.

To buy my victory, I’m going to remove the tax on plain chips! even says Justin Trudeau, a reference to the GST holiday put into effect in mid-December.

I completely understood your message. You want me to reshuffle the government and think during the holidays.

International news will also have been discussed. In addition to multiple mentions of American politics and the Paris Olympic Games here and there, the setbacks of the airline company Boeing were the subject of a segment where Boom Desjardins tries as best he can to sing an advertisement for the company .

The bosses! et The weapons parodied

Quebec culture also had its place in Bye bye, while many shows and films were parodied.

In The chefs (competition parody The bosses!), the leaders of provincial political parties (with the exception of the Liberal Party) are called upon to cook. Each with its own challenges.

None of these seafood people speak French!

In passing, the Bye bye took advantage of it to sting the speakers of the original show by ridiculing the questions of Élyse Marquis, the love of sauces of Jean-Luc Boulay and the super annoying proverbs by Colombe St-Pierre.

On Instagram, the real Élyse Marquis praised the sketch in congratulations to Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. I laughed a lot, I loved everythingwe could read, all accompanied by emoticons of a person laughing.

More nostalgic people will surely be delighted to learn that a parody of the show Watatatow also slipped into the Bye bye. Titled They will be in Bedfordthe parody shows a school where religion reigns, leading to abuses, particularly with regard to sex education. A mix between the famous series of the 1990s and the scandal that emerged from the Bedford school this fall.

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Having marked the television offering this year, the series The weapons was taken up for the Bye byewith a reference to the strike that took place during the filming of the show this fall.

On the cinema side, director Ricardo Trogi was called upon to collaborate on a sketch using the same style as his film 1995and the same actor, Jean-Carl Boucher, as Ricardo Trogi. In this segment, we follow the director in his adventures, while he is entrusted with the task of making the Bye bye. Enough to excite his mother, played by Sandrine Bisson.

The movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuicesequel released in 2024 to the cult film Beetlejuicewas also the subject of a number, Beetlegen, where a girl revives Geneviève Guilbault (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse) and her craze for the 3rd link by repeating three times third link.

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Social media phenomena have also carved out their place in the Bye bye 2024. For example, a sketch mocked the assertion – popularized on TikTok – according to which, in the forest, a majority of women would prefer to come across a bear than a man.

Live from New Year’s Day to start the evening

It is Live from New Year’s Day which kicked off the television evening.

For the 14^e edition, France Beaudoin and her team have removed Louis Morissette, Patricia Paquin, Mona de Grenoble and Marthe Laverdière, with the help of Paul Arcand and Claude Poirier.

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The show lived up to previous editions, as (very) many singers, actors, comedians, artists, presenters and politicians paraded in front of the camera, ranging from 11-year-old Adeline Kerry Cruz, who danced during of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, to Janette Bertrand who, at the dawn of the hundred, counted down from 100.

Michèle Richard, Marjo, Gildor Roy, France Castel, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Charles Tisseyre, Geneviève Schmidt, Ariane Moffatt, Guylaine Tremblay, Valérie Blais, Louis-Jean Cormier, Luce Dufault, Ève-Marie Lortie, Fredz, Sébastien Delorme, Bianca Gervais, Jean Airoldi, Sonia Lebel, MC Gilles, Pierre-Yves McSween, Sara Dufour and Marie-Philip Poulin were seen during this festive evening, to name just a few examples.

There was surprise – and hilarity – when a person disguised as Deadpool (character from the Marvel superhero universe) presented herself between two dancers – they also in Deadpool – to finally reveal his face: it was former minister Pierre Fitzgibbon, who left politics in September and who has already been ridiculed for his serious appearance in the past.

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This serious appearance of the former minister is also raised later in the evening during the special broadcast ofInfomanwhile it is imitated, like last year, by Jean-René Dufort and Marc Labrèche.

Pierre Fitzgibbon, however, was not the only one to have dressed up for the occasion. Scantily clad, host Jean-Philippe Wauthier was painted blue to imitate the outfit of French singer Philippe Katerine during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, an outfit that had caused much discussion.

Infoman without Justin Trudeau

Philippe Katerine was also seen in an interview a few moments later, duringInfoman 2024while Jean-René Dufort got half naked in front of the singer and comedian in order to honor his performance.

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The metal group Voivod took care of the opening credits of the show, covering the song Why is the world without love by Mireille Mathieu by bringing it up to date. Armed conflicts across the world, natural disasters, political crises… The group did not fail to highlight certain significant (and disturbing) events of the last year.

If political figures like Pierre Poilievre, Jagmeet Singh, Yves-François Blanchet, François Legault, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, Valérie Plante and Bruno Marchand appeared in interviews during the show, the host immediately warned viewers that Justin Trudeau would be conspicuous by his absence.

The team ofInfoman was in the Prime Minister’s office just an hour after the announcement of Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet. This absence of the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada was anticipated: on December 17, Justin Trudeau’s office announced the cancellation of all interviews planned for the end of the year.

Despite everything, Jean-René Dufort obviously did not fail to approach politicians with humor. He therefore called on Luc Langevin to reason with chef Éric Duhaime and co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal on the importance of understanding the perception of people with opposing ideas.

Liberal MP Marwah Rizqy, for her part, broke the world record for the greatest number of ties worn at the same time, all under the supervision of Fady Dagher and Pierre-Yves McSween.

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Other personalities, such as Thomas Jolly, Greg Fergus, Monia Chokri, Catherine Fournier, Geneviève Biron, Émilise Lessard-Therrien and Gino Chouinard, were also seen in interviews or to present one of the months of the year. La Victoire de Montréal closed the show.