“We were like two hyenas with Lara Fabian”: Laurent Baffie, sniper of Thierry Ardisson, regrets his jokes about the Belgian “easy prey” at the time

“The guy was paid to shoot me!” On RTL France, Lara Fabian confided to having been traumatized by her interview in “Everybody talks about it”, a famous TV show presented in 2005 by Thierry Ardisson, in a duo with his sidekick and sniper Laurent Baffie. The latter, very mocking towards the Belgian singer who is releasing a new album this Friday (Je suis là), even called her a “cow and pudding”.

Laurent Baffie, visiting DH to promote his show which will pass through Liège and Mons in March 2025 (full interview to read soon in your newspaper), does he regret any of his jokes? He answered us. “If, of course, it happened to me to send flowers to people I might have upset, confesses the 66-year-old comedian who is now a hit on social networks with new hidden cameras. I have made tens of thousands of valves, so yes, there was some waste. And again, Ardisson was kind enough to cut some during editing. But no, I don't just say good things. When we stir up bullshit all day long, we come out with very bad things.”