PORTRAIT – The comedian uses his talents as an imitator in “Le Mondemagique”, a collection of sketches broadcast from December 18 on Canal+. A genre that he has explored since his beginnings on TV.
“The Magical World of Jérôme Commandeur”. Do not trust the cozy reference to Chantal Goya and the plump physique worthy of a copyist monk of the host of these unbridled sketches, broadcast from December 18 on Canal+. The comedian took his momentum to give the PAF a big kick. That of yesterday and today. He plays almost all the roles, from Nikos Aliagas to Maïté, the cantinière of Landes, unforgettable torturer of ducks and eels in “La Cuisine des mousquetaires”.
Jerome Commander was able to indulge in the guilty pleasure that made him successful: parody. Irreverent imitation. He likes nothing more than changing roles, registers and hairpieces. Canal+, which seeks to reconnect with quality comedy productions, has given carte blanche to the comedian, who belongs to the closed circle of César masters of ceremonies. He managed, in 2017, then in 2023, to cheer up the big cinema family. Although he is never so funny as when he improvises. The proof, last February, with “LOL, who laughs comes out”, a reality show from Prime Video in which the candidates must eliminate each other with jokes. At 48, he navigates not without a certain pleasure between French comedies and alone-on-stage at the theater.
Star Seed
For a long time, this Coluche fan only had as a source of inspiration the RER passengers who took him from Paris to his town in Yvelines, Chanteloup-les-Vignes, where his father, an industrial designer, and his wife were waiting for him. mother, executive in a credit company. After Sciences Po Paris, he had to get a degree in literature. He retained a taste for words and ideas for sketches, if we judge by the first of “Magical World”. Saturday theater classes, the memory of a teacher’s ridiculous hairstyle and admiration for Valérie Lemercier created in him the desire to provoke laughter. He pushed open the television doors.
Those of “Graines de star”, an M6 program presented at the end of the 1990s by Laurent Boyer, where he practiced his imitations. From Philippe Risoli or Maïté, already. Follows the role of the presenter of a nicely cheesy program, on France 2. His success in café-theaters, during this time, remains relative. A good fairy looks at one of her sketches, which are running in a loop on a quivering internet: Dany Boon. The comedian spots it, produces it, stages it. Jérôme Commandeur then made a name for himself by parodying his contemporaries. A brainless anti-globalization activist or a sinister trucker. He can even imitate a wild boar.
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Facing Michel Drucker, on Europe 1, he writes a joyfully insolent column from 2010. He draws inspiration from Dominique Besnehard or Guy Lux, depending on the needs. In the cinema, the roles of this bulimic worker are expanding. In 2014, he was part of the Barbecue adventure, by Éric Lavaine. He plays Jean-Mich, the ball of the gang. Its success is complete. Following his momentum, he made his first film, My family already adores you!
He owes this success to attentive observation of his human brothers – “I would have made a good sociologist”he says. You only need to see his acidic parody of “Star Academy” in “The Magic World” to be convinced. One of the most successful, because it holds better than the others, which tend to fray. Never resting, Commandeur is now preparing a third feature film. A comedy where four friends go in search of lost time. On the chapter of his private life, this Zébulon does not like to linger. Is this why he likes to slip into other people’s shoes so much?
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