Of an almost British phlegm, the always youthful look, the actor crowds the red carpet of Cannes, Saturday May 21, to present Smoking makes you cough a cinematographic UFO signed Quentin Dupieux, perched director who also signs with him Incredible but trueanother feature film “odd” released on June 15th. Sunday, May 22, rebelote. Sunglasses and pastel blue suit, Chabat returns to the Palace to defend the colors of the animated film, The little Nicolas.
– What are we waiting for to be happy? in which he lends his voice to the character of René Goscinny, his idol. With two official selections, the actor demonstrates that he is more than ever on top, but that he has not given up on anything: a wacky spirit, often improbable situations and an infinite tenderness for the world of childhood. . His began in 1958 in Oran, French Algeria. Then, at the age of 3, little Chabat moved with his family to Massy, near Paris. He grew up happy on the 12th floor of his HLM and surrounded himself with great friends whom he found to mess around at the foot of the Mogador tower. But he also likes to take refuge in his room where he can read, draw and, above all, write comics. His big dream! “I knew exactly what I didn’t want to do: work full-time in an office, a bank or an administration. I wanted to do comics, whether I lived on it or not”, he confided to Échos Week-End, in 2020. It must be admitted that, on the school side, the young Alain is more of the dunce cap type near the radiator. To the great regret of his mother, a teacher.
He misses his baccalaureate twice and does odd jobs
A bit dilettante, modest, he later confided that he was afraid of girls during his adolescence. “When I realized that they were nice, I was reassured and then – this is not a boast – it worked well”he concluded in the columns of Psychologies magazine, in 2008. In terms of studies, things are not going so well: he misses his baccalaureate twice and decides to do odd jobs. He will sell phosphorescent necklaces at the Trocadero, then ends up dropping everything. Direction… the waves! It was the time of the first free radios, Alain Chabat tried his luck: “I took a competition at Radio Andorra. I pretended to be a host, and it worked”he tells Society MagazineJanuary 23, 2020.
He sees himself ending his life with dreadlocks, in Jamaica
From then on, everything is linked. Fed to the culture of North American TV shows like Saturday Night Live Where Second City Television and imbued with a caustic pop culture, Alain Chabat invents a new sense of humor. His sketches, chronicles and shows – like The Adventures of Nénesse and Riton –, point out by the team of Wedge Earon France Inter. Then by a certain program director of RMC, Pierre Lescure. They won’t leave each other… “When Lescure left to go up Canal, I had only one desire: to follow him”he recalls in QGin 2020. Alain thus meets Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette: Les Nuls were born… But a soldier, Alain Chabat also likes to play solo, try experiments… “What motivates me is humor and strangeness (…) I like characters who are looking for something without knowing what and who find something else on their way”. (The Weekend Echoes, January 31, 2020). We know the following: The City of Fear, Didier, Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Pet, give me your hand… So many films that have definitively transformed the young Alain dunce into a great Chabat of cinema, through hard work and talent, as he confides to the magazine First (November 1, 2006): “For me, the union minimum is to be 200% in everything you do, to go to the end of yourself and your skills”. So, naturally, he dreams of one day finally taking his time… When asked how he imagines himself in thirty years, the answer inevitably makes you smile: “With dreadlocks, on a beach in Jamaica. I will look at the sea”. A happy ending, again and again, in the form of a pirouette.
Burger Quiz & Co
Are you ketchup or mayo? The success of this game show, created in 2001 on Channel then taken over in 2018 by TMCwe owe it of course to the funny presentation of the former Nul but also to the comedian guests who are above all a hell of a bunch of friends: Gérard Darmon, Jérôme Commandeur, Marina Foïs, Laurent Lafitte, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jamel Debbouze, Jonathan Cohen… With sometimes the happy surprise of welcoming incredible personalities: Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara, Vanessa Paradis, Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet or even Benjamin Biolay… in a fast food restaurant!
dad and big kid
Idiots
In fake newspapers or big shows, their sketches have forged legend Canal +. A quartet for three years until the premature death, in 1989, of Bruno Carette, at just 33 years old. Chabat, Farrugia and Lauby continue, with a heavy heart, three more years under the friendly pressure of Alain De Greef. A sometimes rude schoolboy humor that marks an era, as Alain Chabat observes: “If we watch Les Nuls in full, there must be 40% of valves that are no longer watchable”. (Society MagazineJanuary 23, 2020).
A businessman not always wise
fiascos
Game boxes or Burger Quiz notebooks… the products derived from his show are a hit. A godsend for this CEO of Chez Wam (Work After Midnight), which produces the concept. If he enjoyed immense success in 2002 with Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which will explode the box office with 14.5 million spectators, other projects will turn into a financial fiasco. Among them, Turfby Fabien Onteniente, The Person to Two Personsby Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine, A world of oursby Frédéric Balekdjian or even RRRrrr!!!, of himself. Flops that are part of the risks of the job… Alain Chabat seems to be taking things on the bright side despite everything: “I don’t love money, but I love spending it.” (Psychologies MagazineMarch 1, 2008).
His family, his secret garden
“The private sphere is, by definition, private, and I want it to remain so”(QG, February 1, 2020). The tone is set. We know, however, that Alain would be married since June 12, 2019 with the beautiful Tiara Comte. Of Finnish origin, the young woman was seen alongside Stéphane Bern and Énora Malagré on the show Good Kisses of Europe, on France 2. On the children’s side, there are three big Chabat, born from a first union: Lucie (35 years old), Louise (33 years old) and Max (28 years old). Very close to their dad, they often collaborate on his films or his shows.
His career
1994: CITY OF FEAR
A comedy of Dummies, directed by Alain Berbérian. His scenes and lines have become cult.
1995: CURSED LAWN
With Josiane Balasko directing and playing the role of a caricatural lesbian, this comedy reveals a great actor.
1997: DIDIER
Crowned by the César for best first film, Alain Chabat gives us a journey into absurdity with a dog that turns into a human…
2000: THE TASTE OF OTHERS
Agnès Jaoui’s first film was immediately a success, receiving four Césars.
2002: ASTERIX AND OBELIX: MISSION CLEOPATRA
With this new achievement, Chabat is thinking big! A five-star cast inspired by Goscinny and Uderzo.
2003: PETITE
Signed Merzak Allouache, the comedy presents a Gad Elmaleh in an extravagant transvestite with which Alain Chabat falls in love.
2004: RRRRRRR!!!
A sketch he made with Les Robins des Bois. The public will not buy into this war between “dirty hair” and “clean hair”.
2006: LEND ME YOUR HAND
First meeting with Éric Lartigau, who delivers this romantic comedy with Charlotte Gainsbourg.
2012: ON THE TRACK OF THE MARSUPILAMI
Written, produced and directed by Chabat, a big fan of comics, this adaptation of Franquin’s work was close to his heart.
2013: THE FOAM OF THE DAYS
This foray into the world of Michel Gondry, who adapted Boris Vian’s book for the screen, is a real surprise.
2017: SANTA & CIE
Back to childhood, his favorite world, with this mainstream film where he plays a Santa Claus anxious to treat his elves who have fallen ill.
2020: #JESUISHERE
New film with Éric Lartigau, in which he plays a chef who is looking for love on social networks.
2022: INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE AND SMOKING MAKES YOU COUGH
Two Quentin Dupieux at once! In the fantasy genre, the first feature film is about a couple, Alain Chabat and Léa Drucker, intrigued by the hatch in the cellar of their new house… And the other, a parody of science fiction, made a triumphs when it is screened in Cannes.
See also: Burger Quiz: who will succeed Alain Chabat?
Beatrice New