He left France Inter in the spring in solidarity with Guillaume Meurice: on stage, comedian Aymeric Lompret discusses social issues in a corrosive tone… without forgetting to criticize his former employer.
“The station has become a little more right-wing… It has at least become depoliticized, I would say,” confides to AFP the 36-year-old comedian, who says he regrets the end of Charline Vanhoenacker's show, where he had a column.
If this radio station is the subject of “a few jokes” during his show, he does not want to dwell too much on the subject. “I still have friends there,” he emphasizes.
This departure from France Inter, in support of Guillaume Meurice, fired for controversial remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seems to have strengthened his bond with the public, while his show “Yolo” is on tour until the end of 2025.
“Aymeric’s choice to assert himself in this way reinforced our desire to see him on stage,” testifies Sébastien, a spectator met during a performance in Paris and who does not want to give his name.
Co-written with Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, another comedian who slammed the door on France Inter in 2017 after a sketch in favor of abstention in the second round of the presidential election which was refused, this show talks about loneliness via a homeless character. shelter looking for his dog.
– “A little lonely” –
This isolated character is a common thread that allows Aymeric Lompret to address a wide range of subjects, from the rise of the far right to junk food and personal development.
The left-wing comedian also directly attacks the “fascists”, the right, media figures like Cyril Hanouna, or Abbé Pierre, former favorite personality of the French targeted since July by a series of testimonies from women on sexual violence committed between the 1950s and the 2000s.
Since September, Aymeric Lompret has found a microphone again by joining Guillaume Meurice on Radio Nova, where they co-host “La Derniere” every Sunday evening, alongside Juliette Arnaud and Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, with assertive freedom of tone.
“When you see the media landscape at the moment, when you are a humanist, or a communist, you have the impression of being a little alone, so I think that the show (on Nova) is cool for that,” says -it is worth.
Between the stage and the radio, is his heart unsteady?
“On stage, what's stimulating is the fact that you have time to set up something. And on the radio, on the contrary, you have three minutes. People are less demanding, because they know that you wrote it in less than a week on a hot topic,” he explains.
