ComédiHa! Salutes Montreal | Pascal Cameron, the man you can trust

Pascal Cameron is everywhere under the ComediHa! banner this summer. In addition to warming up the atmosphere on the Vidéotron stage, six nights outdoors, at the new Montreal comedy festival ComediHa! salutes Montréal, he will participate in the collective There’s something to laugh about by Billy Tellier, Saturday at the Théâtre Jean-Duceppe, and will lead a 100% character gala at the ComediHa! Fest-Québec in tandem with his girlfriend, Florence Longpré.

Pascal Cameron strongly expresses his gratitude to the ComediHa! team, a valuable ally since the beginning of his career, who have given him many platforms to promote himself (at the ComediHa! Fest-Québec, on TV in The brotherhoodetc.), and even managed his career for a while.

“ComediHa! allowed me to grow as an artist and comedian, allowed me to earn a living when it was more difficult. I owe them a lot,” he says.

However, the crazy comedian still believes that he did not steal this bouquet of opportunities. If his name has been circulating since his appearance at Next stand-up in 2020, if he shines today in the first part of Distracted Crocodilethe new show by Laurent Paquin, if a producer – not ComediHa! – took him under his wing for the launch of his first one man showthe details of which will be revealed in the fall, is thanks to his own work.

When Pascal learned that his mentors were quickly concocting a new festival for the metropolis to fill the gaping hole left by the departure of Just for Laughs, he himself raised his hand to offer his services.

Josée Charland, the general director of ComediHa!, had spotted the young artist, then a student, when she held management positions at the École nationale de l’humour. She felt that he would be the ideal host for the evenings Stand up, aperitifs for the big shows at 9 p.m. outside.

As master of ceremonies, at around 8:15 p.m., Cameron delivers a short opening monologue and provides links between the performances of three guests of “established” caliber (Tommy Nero, for example).

“Pascal regularly plays this role of host of comedy evenings,” explains Josée Charland to The Pressemphasizing the deadpan irreverence of his protégé.

“He has a friendly face, a quick wit, he is unique. If something happens in the crowd, if he wants to pick up a gag that worked well in a previous issue, he has the quick wit to do it.”

22 years old, soon to be 40

Pascal Cameron is one of those funny sparrows with an absurd tone that makes you wonder what they eat in winter. The kind to declaim in a serious tone I don’t love you anymoreby Mario Pelchat, in homage to his sweetheart Florence Longpré Live from the universeand to be outraged by the fact that we don’t pronounce “tournade” instead of “tornade”, because a tornado, well, it turns.

Her look cotton-sweatshirt-shaggy-hair reflects an image of a polite, clumsy top of the class; then he opens his mouth, inveighs against everything that moves, and his goal of making the viewer experience a potpourri of emotions culminating in hilarity is achieved.

Besides, his “bug” aura is not really a character role, he jokes.

Our new forty-year-old, once brought up on humor trash and arrogant lyrics by Eminem and Blink 182, claims the right to eternal youth. He had the guts of his candid effrontery in relaunching Louise Richer, who had refused him a first time at the National School of Humor.

“I realized you made a mistake by refusing me, I came back this year to correct your mistake,” he told the school’s leader. The line paid off, Cameron graduated in 2011.

The same good-natured energy should emanate from the absolutely non-traditional gala, he swears, devoid of any stand up, that he is preparing with Florence Longpré for the ComediHa! Fest-Québec. There will be nothing but characters, costumes and sequins. Patrick Groulx, Katherine Levac, Marie-Lyne Joncas, Silvi Tourigny, Claude Legault, Mona de Grenoble and Yves P. Pelletier, among others, will be there, with their most famous alter egos.

“My girlfriend and I were saying the other day that we’re not 40. We’re as ugly as 40-year-olds, but we have the brains of 22-year-olds. There’s something incoherent about all that!”

Parties Stand up with Pascal Cameron are presented at 8:15 p.m., on the Videotron stage of ComédiHa! Salute Montréal, on July 19, 20, 21, 25 and 26.

The event There’s something to laugh about with Billy Tellier will take place on Saturday, July 20, at 7 p.m., at the Théâtre Jean-Duceppe.

The ComediHa! Fest-Québec gala by Florence Longpré and Pascal Cameron will be held on Tuesday, August 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the Grand Théâtre de Québec.

Check out the event page at ComediHa! Salute Montréal