This Saturday, comedian and author Boucar Diouf was on the talk show For oncewhere he was able to feed viewers fond of his usual verve and his thoughtful observations on life.
While Colette Provencher was appointed to ask him a few questions, she simply asked him if he would one day agree to participate in Get me out of hereas she did in 2023. However, in a categorical tone, Boucar refutes any allusion to any participation in a program of the kind. He then tempers his remarks by explaining that he nevertheless enjoys watching it on TV. He confides:
« I love reality shows! These are true things, Colette. When we see you fail, these are emotions that are true. It’s not linked to a scene, to someone who wrote it. But for me, it also allows me to disconnect my brain and say to myself: “That’s hot!” We would have liked to write it, but it wouldn’t work. No one can write it, because it’s real life! We call it reality TV, but there is reality in it. It’s real life! »
Then, in a completely different register, Boucar confided in Colette about a more difficult period in his life, which occurred when he arrived in Quebec. Barely 24 years old at the time, the trained biologist revealed that it was in fact a second birth:
« We forget it a lot, but leaving your family, your friends, your village, your city, and going to a completely new country, you know absolutely nothing. It’s a second birth. You are experiencing a completely second birth, without your parents (…). Even to go to the grocery store, it took Jean-Pierre Forget, who took care of the foreign students, to tell me: “Come, I’ll show you how we do the grocery store.” Because I left the savannah and arrived here! So I come into the grocery store and he says to me, “Take the basket and push the basket.” I took the stuff and I thought it was free! »
The comedian’s words certainly resonate with many adopted Quebecers who, by choice or by constraint, had to leave their native country to settle here. It was very touching to hear Boucar express himself on this facet of his life that is too little discussed.
Next week, it will be the turn of former Hydro-Québec general director Sophie Brochu to sample the unique format of the popular talk show.
The show For once is broadcast on Saturdays at 8 p.m. on Télé-Québec.
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