“A tramp”, Dany Boon and his painful memory of a school principal

We know him for his immense popular successes and, among them, Welcome to the Ch'tis or even The Ch'tite family et Supercondriaque. For fifteen years, nothing seems to stop Dany Boon. The sidekick of Kad Merad and Line Renaud is even one of the highest paid French actors. But if he is a hit on the big screen, he also has an unconditional love for the stage. So, after seven years of absence on the boards, he marks its big comeback. From January, he will go on tour with your play Clown is not a profession directed by Isabelle Nanty. In particular, he will be on stage at the Casino de Paris on October 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19, 2025.

This weekend, comedian and actor came to discuss this new show at the microphone of Europe 1. Guest of Julia Vignali at the end of the morning show, Laurence Arné's companion spoke widely confided in his beginnings. The opportunity for the station's listeners to discover that the most famous ch'ti in France has struggled before knowing glory.

Déjà, at school, everything started off rather badly for the 58-year-old man who has often worn a dunce cap. Proof of this is this sentence that he has not forgotten. “My director told me I would become a tramp“he says. Of the very harsh words which undoubtedly pushed him to surpass himself while on his school reports: “They told me ‘I could do better’, I did a sketch”. “Before, we talked about 'lazy people', now about 'attention disorders', I have fun with that”he confides.

Dany Boon: dunce at school, the comedian ended up on the street

Unfortunately, the difficulties did not end there for young Dany Boon. After school, the father of five children migrated from Belgium to Paris in the 1980s. Aged less than 20, Judith Gorèche's ex was unable to find accommodation. Result: he was forced to live on the street. In Le Parisien, in 2014, he said: “At that time, I was doing street performances: mime, clowning and playing the guitar. It was also really complicated because I didn't have a leg. I was worse than poor. That is to say, I was in debt. And therefore banned from banking. I owed everyone money“.

In order to get out of there, the comedian tried many things and for good reason: “Most of the time, I didn't eat enough. When we went to the restaurant, located next to Cours Simon, I said: 'No, no, I'm not taking anything.'And I asked for a jug of water. I only ate a basket of bread“. The words of his former Director undoubtedly had a very strong impact on his determination to get through it. Finally, in 1993, he met Patrick Sébastien who liked one of his sketches. His career was launched… Today, it's been thirty years since Dany Boon “homeless“but it makes the French laugh.

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