Nobody can say that they don’t know Pierre Palmade. The 54-year-old comedian has seen his sketches cross generations with Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque in particular. But this Friday, July 8, he is launching a new challenge, that of reading a show in Grignan for Letter or not letter. On the verge of realizing a dream, as he says himself in the columns of Provence that same day, the stage man is happy to bring a touch of humor to an event so far from his universe: “I am a comedian, a clown, and I know that Grignan is something serious. Besides, I thought that I would be offered to read a somewhat serious text, a little more serious. And no, they took advantage of my presence to do something funny.“
Being funny, Pierre Palmade has made it his life. No doubt because of the rather dark family background he experienced in his younger years. At the turn of a question concerning the many women who mattered to him, Pierre Palmade admitted that his proximity to the fairer sex resulted from a complicated liability with the men of his family.
“I was raised by womenhe explains. My father died when I was young. All the men died very early from accidents, it’s very strange” If he did not dwell on the sad events that punctuated his childhood, Pierre Palmade quickly rebounded on all the happiness he had growing up with the women in his life: “I only had grandmothers, sisters and a mother. I have a very easy relationship with women. I understand them more easily than men.“
Evolving in such a universe has also allowed him to build his career: “When I started at 20, there were plenty of male comedians who had just died, Desproges, Le Luron, Coluche… And everyone was looking for replacements. I arrived by rather imitating female humor, that is to say Jacqueline Maillan, Sylvie Joly. I arrived, boy as I was, with a humor that could not replace any male humorist. So it created a style a little apart.” A style that no one will ever be able to reproduce…
The Festival de la Correspondance de Grignan develops its own character and makes an original voice heard in the epistolary genre and takes place from July 5 to 9, 2022.
Performance by Pierre Palmade tonight at 7.30 p.m. at the Château de Grigan.