Canal+ is broadcasting this Monday evening the first episodes of “Broute 24”, its new offbeat creation in which Bertrand Usclat plays eight new characters who are still just as funny and impertinent.
In 2018, Bertrand Usclat decided to parody the Brut media with Broute, a series of videos of approximately 1 minute, where he plays different characters, each more absurd than the last.
For 3 seasons, or 176 episodes, the comedian took up current themes to parody them, often offering an offbeat vision of events. Originally offered on Youtube and social networks, then from 2019 on Canal+ in the show Clique, Broute quickly met with great success and today has more than 500 million views.
8 new episodes… longer
It is therefore not surprising that, two years after its termination, the series is back on Canal+ with Broute 24, a new format of 8 20-minute episodes broadcast on the channel from April 29 at 10 p.m.
With the same writing and directing team made up of the comedian, Martin Darondeau and Guillaume Cremonese, this new format will obviously take up what made the original series so special.
For the occasion, Bertrand Usclat portrays 8 completely offbeat characters who each represent a theme of current society: the principal of a college on the verge of crisis, the lazy inhabitant of an ecovillage, a CRS in demonstration, a a slightly nerdy seduction coach, an identity mayor forced to welcome a family of refugees into his village, a young dad more or less on paternity leave, an old lobbyist out of step with the times and the member of a polyamorous group a little (very) jealous.
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“The same thing, but longer”, explained Bertrand Usclat in a press release. “24 hours to follow 8 characters, in a new temporality, that of fiction. Where the chronicle required a good formula, a good ‘punch’, the time of the series imposes a rather joyful reflection on the notion of character, caught in a paradox when its cardinal values confront reality. It’s a principle of comedy as old as time, but applied to the subjects that affect society today..”
Catch the first two episodes of Broute 24 on Monday April 29 from 10 p.m. on Canal+. The series is also available in full on myCanal.
