Another evening, another hour, another tear of happiness!
Published yesterday at 7:30 p.m.
It's difficult to write about the special edition ofLive from New Year's Day without rambling and without swooning over the colossal amount of work that has been injected into these 90 minutes full of lovely surprises, moist eyes and festive moments.
This whirlwind of emotions existed in the same program without breaks in tone, where the viewer oscillated between laughter and tears in a half-turn of a stage pastille. The number on father-son relationships, punctuated by the play The little king by Jean-Pierre Ferland, covered by Patrice Michaud, was the most poignant moment on the backfiring set of France Beaudoin.
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Patrice Michaud took over The little king by Jean-Pierre Ferland.
Who didn't break down in their living room when the children joined – and vice versa – their dads, who suspected nothing? Luce Dufault let out a little cry when she saw her daughter Lunou Zucchini and musician Scott Price almost froze at the piano when his three grown daughters sang The hymn to love by Edith Piaf.
These moments of surprise, hidden in an initial surprise, are worth gold, because they provoke pure and spontaneous reactions that are impossible to fake.
The deviled egg mayonnaise took well between the four kidnapped guestsLive from New Year's Dayan extremely well-oiled heartbreak machine. Good flash to have included Paul Arcand and Claude Poirier in this major kidnapping operation.
The horticulturist Marthe Laverdière, who tends to occupy the entire dance floor, was touching and attentive to the stories of her comrades Louis Morissette, Alexandre Aussant (the interpreter of Mona de Grenoble) and Patricia Paquin.
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Jean-Philippe Wauthier made up all in blue like Philippe Katerine at the Paris Olympic Games
Compact and well loaded, it's worth revisiting the spectacular 15-minute opening number, where we incorporated 42 different songs, in addition to adding a review of the year 2024 and tributes to our deceased artists. The stars followed one another at a breakneck pace, including Gildor Roy, Édith Butler, Louis-Jean Cormier, France Castel, Ève-Marie Lortie, Charles Tisseyre, Sébastien Delorme (hats off to the self-deprecation), the unemployed of 98 .5 FM MC Gilles and Pierre-Yves McSween, Pierre Fitzgibbon as Deadpool, Jean-Philippe Wauthier made up all in blue like Philippe Katerine at the Paris Olympic Games and Raphaëlle Morissette, the youngest of Louis and Véro, who remade I saw the wolf, the fox, the hare in the style of Joël Legendre Canadian evening.
The nuggets ofLive from New Year's Day very often shine in simple, very intimate moments, which do not involve international stars. Like the big boys and the grandchildren of Marthe Laverdière, or Louis Morissette who wipes away several tears during the duet of his eldest Delphine with Annie Brocoli. He ages well, Louis Morissette. Less Grinch, closer to his feelings.
The list of nice nods in this special could go on for a long time: amateur hockey player Normand Marineau, Gary Carter's son, Michèle Richard's glittering cane, the tribute to Time for a peaceAretha Franklin's granddaughter, Janette Bertrand's countdown and miniature reproductions of important houses for each of the four guests.
The team ofLive from New Year's Day do not skimp on the efforts to concoct this bubble of happiness, which happily grows from year to year.
Jean-René Dufort did not botch his Infoman 2024woven with tasty political pearls. The hunt for Florida iguanas with Réjean Tremblay's wife, Julie Bertrand, was colorful.
Almost all Canadian (even Pierre Poilievre) and Quebec (Valérie Plante returned after a break) elected officials received Jean-René Dufort, but not Justin Trudeau, plunged into crisis, who thus missed his first Infoman since he took the reins of the country in November 2015.
The fake peplum Cleopontfeaturing Minister Geneviève Guilbault, was masterfully put together. The segment “In the head of”, formerly reserved for Céline Dion, was successfully applied to Denis Coderre, while the chief warrant officer Thomas Dallaire (Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi) from the soap opera The weapons of TVA gave lessons in authority to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Greg Fergus. Great idea, funny and well executed.
Pierre Poilievre's common sense rhyme also hit the mark, as did the flash of the hammer thrown by gold medalist Ethan Katzberg, which set off the geyser in downtown Montreal.
For 90 minutes, Infoman lined up funny and intelligent segments such as the world record of 360 ties established by Marwah Rizqy, the return of Nostradamouse, Luc Langevin's magic trick with Éric Duhaime and Ruba Ghazal as well as the agreement “tearing” competition with Jagmeet Singh.
In his latest vintage, Jean-René Dufort transformed his podcast Let's talk about babies in A bite of Fitzand it's still fun. Marc Labrèche is amazing as a resigning superminister.
And the experience carried out by MC Gilles and Jean-René Dufort confirms that the City of Montreal manages its public works very poorly: two of the three fake construction sites created by Infoman were not dismantled, despite the visit of several municipal inspectors. Nothing reassuring.
The only minor flaw in this annual review? The opening song Why is the world without love by Mireille Mathieu, revisited by Voivod, which lacked punch. However, it is a small downside in an almost perfect concert of notes.
