Everyone remembers that night. In 1999, Jamel Debbouze was somewhat the icon of the Cesar Ceremonies. If the comedian chaired the 38th night of the Caesars after Jean Rochefort, Simone Signoret or even Jean Gabin, in previous years, he had already marked the spirits by his interventions.
In previous years, Jamel Debbouze had already been invited. Always so surprising, on stage, he had not been unanimous among the public. In particular the evening of the Caesar of 1999 when it pays the head of Vanessa Paradis, who had announced the bad winner, before deciding to make a small game mixing the winners and the losers. That same evening, the comedian also met Adriana Karembeu, and again, his sarcastic humor had provoked some white people.
While Jamel Debbouze was on stage, Adriana Karembeu joined him to award a trophy. At this point, the latter gets out of hand. After his joke “Monsieur and Madame Karembeu have a son”, the comedian decides to play the comedy of situation by evoking their really glaring difference in size: “1.24 legs then? In the Guinness Book of Records. You imagine, me they would reach my throat “. While the assembly is laughing, the model, she seems a little embarrassed.
But not enough to panic Jamel Debbouze who decides to try everything for everything by asking Adriana Karembeu to face him to compare the size. The latter is therefore found with his head in the chest of the young woman, at the time married to Christian Karembeu, “a jealous man “ as Antoine de Caunes points out in an attempt to stop the freewheeling comedian.
An iconic moment that will remain one of the best of the César.
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