Like the “Unknowns”, the “Dummies” troupe made up of Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby, Dominique Farrugia and Bruno Carette made more than one laugh when they performed. With sketches all as hairy as each other, sadness invaded their fans when they made the choice to separate at the death of Bruno Carette. To bow out, they nevertheless offered a film that has become a great classic of French cinema, being none other than “The City of Fear”. But before separating, Michel Drucker had the opportunity to receive them and remembers them very well.
The one who now receives many guests in his famous red armchairs on France 2 on the occasion of Vivement Dimanche was on the set of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine this Friday, December 17. In C to You, the host was telling a funny anecdote about the “Dummies” and the quarrel that this would have caused with his mother. It was when he was at the helm of “Champs-Elysées” that Alain Chabat and his team visited Michel Drucker. “Yes, there are Les Dulls. They were known to Canal, and they performed for the first time at 8:30 p.m. ”
Inviting them over, he never imagined it would have resulted in an argument with the one who gave him life. “And I was angry with my mother for 6 months because of them”, he remembers before continuing: “I had reconstructed the Canal info table, and then I said: ‘Dummies, pub’! And there, we hear a couple moaning behind a bedroom door, and in front of 8 million people we heard ‘happiness is as simple as a blow of cock’ … So there, my mother had vagal discomfort . “
Our Festival colleagues recalling that he had already mentioned this anecdote, still on the same set, in 2018: “It’s 9:15 p.m., and it’s thirty years ago, and my mother in front of the station calling my house and leaving me this message on my answering machine: ‘It’s your mother, stop it now!’ As if I was listening to my answering machine. She pissed me off for a long time because they screwed up. “