For the very last evening of the ComediHa! Fest, we brought together the couple Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Guillaume Pineault for the animation. The duo did very well offering several good times in a gala with ups and downs.
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This was a first for the two artists who are on tour with their respective solo shows.
The idea of bringing them together, Friday, on the boards of the Capitole de Québec, was that of their psychologist so that they could have common projects.
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“We never see each other and we work all the time”, said the actress who we saw on TV in the series Plan B.
Obviously, the duo offered an opening number revolving around their life as a couple. A good segment where we learned that Guillaume Pineault had nail fungus and that Anne-Élisabeth Bossé ate the popcorn that was in the cracks of the couch.
“I did that once,” she said. “It was not with us,” replied her lover, raising laughter.
“I love you”, launched Anne-Élisabeth Bossé. “I like you,” added Guillaume who, for the occasion, wore a suit with a bow tie.
We then saw a series of photos where Guillaume Pineault was at his best and where Anne-Élisabeth Bossé was a little less so.
The duo did well during this intro number and throughout the gala.
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They did it again, in the second part, with a good number on their childhood dreams which are very different from those of young people today, including lots of cultural references. Fun.
Another Guillaume, Wagner this one, showed up on stage with a number on the suburbs, where he moved, and on the children.
“Being a parent and having young children is like being the bodyguard of a problematic Hollywood star,” he said.
He said the text messages and “sexting” he exchanged with his girlfriend have now become grocery lists and child issues.
Barbados
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The Barbada drag queen delivered the best segment of the evening with her grown-up tale.
The drag queen Barbada delivered the best number in the first part. A portion where she told, with great humor and aplomb, the story of Adabrad in the “village”.
“I’m like Fred Pellerin, but with six-inch heels and fake nipples,” he remarked, leaving the story several times to comment on it in his own way.
“A drag queen is like an IKEA piece of furniture. It’s complicated to mount and there’s always a small piece… or a bigger one,” he said.
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Barbada did not miss his shot and the crowd let him know with a round of well-deserved applause.
Surreal and hilarious moment, after the intermission, when the host of the crowd brought Elliot on stage, with a basketball jersey from the Brooklyn Nets, who celebrated his 14th birthday on Friday. The drag queen Barbada, who was also celebrating her birthday, showed up on the boards to give her some big glue. An unexpected and very amusing segment.
Martin Perizzolo and his number on sleep apnea and that of Jean-Thomas Jobin on a story of a fake work of art were not as successful.
The crazy farandole
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Just like this number with the presence of the animators, François Papineau and Bénédicte Décary, Pascal Morissette and Julie Ringuette and Pascal Cameron and Florence Longpré on the SSCC, the secret society of famous couples.
A segment that went a bit in all directions, except for the moments when we laughed at the unknown status of Pascal Cameron, where his girlfriend even baptized him Patrick.
Jean-Michel Martel, who arrived on stage with a ladder, brought a bit of surrealism to this gala with a particularly crazy number on the invention of games snakes and ladders and Battleship.
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé invited her friends Suzie Bouchard, Katherine Levac and Florence Longpré for a girls’ number on bad feminists, where there were some good flashes.
We especially remembered this slightly crazy and unbridled farandole at the beginning and end of their number and with Guillaume Pineault arriving at a bad time, believing that the segment was over. He was told so.