After a day of strike compensated by rebroadcasts, Flavie Flament and Julien Arnaud were back live this Wednesday, October 2, 2024 on France 2. The two hosts and their columnists welcomed Anne Roumanoff to their set this morning.
Being a female comedian, a rare situation in the 90s
The comedian donned boxing gloves on the poster for his new solo show Life experienceand does not seem to have removed them! Anne Roumanoff was indeed in great shape and in a fighting mood, in particular by confiding in her temperament and her aversion to the hypocrisy of show business: “I struggled a bit with social norms. Especially in this job where you have to pretend, be kind to people you can’t fool… I had a lot of trouble!“. Not being docile, however, took her far. Today, Anne Roumanoff already has more than thirty years of career in humor. An extraordinary career, especially since being a woman was not common currency in this environment: “It wasn’t fashionable at all. Being a comedian was not at all fashionable and being a woman was very incongruous. It’s true that for a long time, we were very much in the minority. Now, there are plenty of very talented female comedians, it’s no longer a problem. But at the time, I remember, at comedy festivals, I was, in quotes, ‘the service woman’. There was one woman, that was enough!“.
Anne Roumanoff lets loose in Telematin !
At a comedy festival in Montreal, this posed a problem during programming. Organizers told him: “We can’t put you there, because there is a woman before you, that’s too many women“. So what to convey.”two men in a row“had never posed a problem to anyone,” denounces Anne Roumanoff. The comedian has also very often encountered journalists and presenters posing to him.”questions like: ‘Is there such a thing as female humor?’ But, fuck you, actually! No, but that’s a question I can’t stand! You make people laugh or you don’t, it’s not a question of being a man or a woman!“Obviously, we don’t hear this question anymore, but it’s only been a few years,” emphasizes Anne Roumanoff.
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