Mother, but not only that. Rosalie Vaillancourt gave birth to a little girl and it changed everything… and changed nothing at the same time. The 31-year-old comedian does not make her motherhood the epicenter of her second show, but her title — MILF — is, however, an acronym evoking these women who have carried life and who remain desirable. Like it’s possible to be more than one thing at the same time, to be everything at the same time. And on stage, Rosalie shamelessly recounts her different facets – and flaws – like we string paragraphs together.
The jack of all trades says it herself jokingly during MILF : she is not a comedian, but a journalist… of her own life. In the Longuille offices of her management company, the new suburbanite explains the metaphor a little more. This show is “my last year. It’s me, it’s true, it’s real stuff.” And she documents it, for “about a Shrek “, she said in her press release.
“I just wrote about what I was going through at the moment, I didn’t try to construct a show of humor. In fact, it is the show humor that built me, explains Rosalie Vaillancourt. There are lots of things that brought me back to myself, that made me feel good, like not just being the mom. On stage, I say that the MILF spends her time with plumbers, but I spend it with the audience. Then it really makes me feel good. That’s my analogy basically, of being a mother, but still thinking about herself, wearing several hats. »
In this second effort, which arrives some five years after the show Child kingthe one who just won the last season of LOL. Who will laugh last? threads the segments of his life like a rosary. Her life as a mother, therefore, but also her suburban life, her difficult journey with ADHD and the impacts that her symptoms have on those around her, first and foremost her partner – who recently became her husband -, who likes everything to be clean and tidy. She talks about her family in general and in particular about her sister, whom she is jealous of. She also talks about her problems with online shopping and teaches us what echolalia is. The land, then.
Rosalie Vaillancourt even says she took ADHD tests once again with the neuropsychologist. “I actually did them, I wrote my number the week after! » she laughs, while still saying that sharing your daily life is not an easy task. “I always loved my ADHD, I always felt lucky, I thought I managed it well, until I had a child,” she adds. I have really matured, I think, and it shows in the show »
In MILFthe different segments last three or four minutes, “except the one on ADHD, which lasts at least 25 minutes, because that’s what has become the most difficult in my life.”
During her show, the one who co-created the parody TV series Completely high school with Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais shows himself without shame metaphorically, but also, in a certain way… literally. But it was important for Vaillancourt not to lapse into vulgarity throughout his gags. “I try to stay on the line all the time, never to cross it. And it’s really not my wish to shock people either. » Her running-in shows will not have had this effect, she reassures.
MILF, Rosalie believes, allows her to put her cards on the table and fully show her personality. In a way, it gives the keys to the public to decode it beyond what we have been able to capture of its essence so far in the media, through capsules or hyper-edited interviews.
“I started young and didn’t know how to explain who I was to the public,” she says. People often thought he was a small-time character. And she’s not a character, she’s not a little nincompoop either, she’s a woman who wants to laugh, who likes to be silly, but who also has this, this and that [comme particularités]. We can all laugh about my language disorder, for example, but know that I’m not stupid because I forgot the word “fan”, it’s just that I can’t find it in my head. »
His participation in the friendly reality show Get me out of here, at TVA, follows the same logic, because it allowed people to better understand it over the course of the challenges and the days spent in the jungle with a series of personalities. “And also, it allowed me to reconnect. When you become a little famous, you also protect yourself. And then I was like: “Ah, I’m not protecting myself right now, and I feel good, I can be myself.” That’s when I told myself that from now on, I would be myself on TV. »
The fact remains that if she loves television, Rosalie Vaillancourt feels at home on stage. She may have blurred her lines herself, but she assures us: “The stand-up pure, that’s what I like. » While pregnant, she tested numbers on stage at the Brothel, only to realize that she was more confident than ever — “there are two of us, fuck you ! » she laughs.
“When my daughter came out, I kept this attitude, of being in control. » The comedian is less in a hurry to put on the gags, and “plays” more. “Then that, I think it comes from motherhood, but also from maturity, from adult life. But that doesn’t stop you from being a child. I couldn’t lose the little girl who ate her eraser! »
Mother, but not only that.