Romain Bouteille, Coluche, Patrick Dewaere, Henri Guybet, Martin Lamotte and Miou-Miou… they all started in the same place: at the Café de la Gare, at the end of the 1960s. And so very quickly, Coluche was asked to leave the troupe to leave for a solo career, (after a fight which would have degenerated between him, Romain Bouteille and Patrick Dewaere), this January 15, 2024, we learn that this was not the only reason for this departure…
“He stole our lines”
It is the actor Henri Guybet, who was Salomon (“Are you Jewish?“) in the cult”Rabbi Jacob“, with Louis de Funès, who says it. Guest of Jordan de Luxe, on C8, this Monday, he assures about the one who made a hit with “It’s a guy’s story.” And “the Schmilblick”
on stage, before becoming a movie star (“Tchao Pantin”, “The Wing or the Thigh”) and to found the Restos du coeur, that he was not very honest with his comrades…
Indeed, Henri Guybet reports: “There was a problem with him, he was stealing our lines. We realized that afterwards”. And added: “He was becoming the soloist he would become. So he needed the stage all to himself.”. He also cites an example: “One day I arrived to go on stage and he said to me ‘I’m going to do it’. So, we didn’t like it, we yelled at him, he was good for 8 days and it was stronger than him.”
“We separated from Coluche”
And if Henri Guybet remembers “we separated from Coluche”, he also assures: “but we remained very, very friends”. As proof, he said, admiringly: “Then there was the great Coluche, he was very generous. He’s a beast on stage, but in life he’s a heart of gold. I would have needed money, I would have gone to see Michel, he would have given it to me straight away. That’s how it was.”
By his own admission, Coluche had taken Romain Bouteille, an anarchist, as his model. For Henri Guybet, from there, “he became an anarchist comedian. And he had an art, like a house painter: he looks at a wall, and he sees the crack, and he widened it.”
F.A.