Interview with Thierry Ardisson | “I was facetious, insolent, perhaps a little sadistic”

Visiting Montreal for the filming of the 500e episode of the Quebec version of Everybody talks about it, the format he created, Thierry Ardisson looks back on the eight seasons during which he hosted All-Paris at his table, even if it was “easier to go and get sucked at Michel Drucker’s,” he says, than go get pissed off by Ardisson.”




At 17, Thierry Ardisson, with no prior experience other than an insatiable love for music, became a DJ in a nightclub in Juan-les-Pins. “And when I got the job, they told me: ‘If the track is empty, you’re fired,’” he remembers. TV is the same: we don’t want the track to empty out, for people to skip. »

By taking the helm of Everybody talks about it in 1998, which only found its known form, with its Warholian questionnaires and its jester, in 1999, the man in black thus putting into practice what he had learned on the decks. “It’s a show that had a dimension that was both fun and cultural,” he confided on January 15, seated at the Ritz-Carlton restaurant, the morning of the recording of the 500e Quebec episode of the concept he created.

PHOTO KARINE DUFOUR, PROVIDED BY RADIO-CANADA

Guy A. Lepage and Thierry Ardisson

I arrived between two bimbos, or between two comedians, to convey a little culture, to receive Tom Wolfe or Bret Easton Ellis. And the culture was made digestible, it was not punitive. That was always my big idea.

Thierry Ardisson

Do not look for the feel-good

Make culture digestible on the one hand, even if it means multiplying the stunts and jokes of more or less good taste on the other, such as offering Matt Damon and Brad Pitt girls and drugs, asking to former Prime Minister Michel Rocard if “sucking is cheating” or to suggest to Nelly Arcan to “lose that Canadian accent”, which was, according to him, what was “less sexy” about her.


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