The pre-Bye bye party | Five Moments Worthy of a 2nd Listen

The television evening of December 31 delivered excerpts that we will definitely want to see again over the next few days. Here are five fromNew Year’s Day LiveofSee you next year and D’Infoman.

A dizzying opening number (New Year’s Day Live)

To quote Patrice Bélanger seeing the artists gather on stage to proceed to the final count after 12 minutes of songs without interruption: ” Check that man, that doesn’t make sense! The opening number of France Beaudoin’s annual meeting was indeed incredible. So much so that we would run out of space to list all the pearls it contained. Coral Egan singing Pretty Woman in a nod to the gray hair of Lisa LaFlamme, the CTV anchor fired last summer, Mario Pelchat who stands out travel without you in front of images of the endless queues at the passport offices, Véronique Claveau who sings “Liberrrrrrrté, liberrrrrrté” (The heart is a birdby Richard Desjardins) in reference to the fugitive cows of Saint-Sévère… We understand the “kidnapped” personalities – Christine Morency, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, Paul Houde, Jean-Sébastien Girard and Patrice Bélanger – for having run out of words to describe this that they had just lived.

The Iranian Women’s Choir (New Year’s Day Live)

The team ofLive from the universe knows how to raise a party. She also knows how to create calmer, poised moments that manage to touch without ever buttering it up too thick or forcing the note. In the middle of the show, the number bringing together pianist Jean-Michel Blais, Étienne Coppée, Raif Badawi’s wife and their children, Kathleen Fortin, Gregory Charles, Coral Egan, and several Madelinots via video greatly moved Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc and Christine Morency. With reason. It was particularly powerful to listen to the chorus of women and Iranian artists deliver a stripped down version of Never Surrender, of Corey Hart, knowing the fight currently waged in their country of origin.

Patrice Roy by Pierre Verville (See you next year)

Among the most successful imitations of the show See you next year, difficult to surpass the master Pierre Verville. The actor was stunning in Patrice Roy. The intonations, the handling of the pencil, the repetition of “very good”… Everything was there. The other collaborators of the generally exclusively radiophonic meeting of ICI Première also shone, starting with Véronique Claveau, who distinguished herself by transplanting the voices of Christine Beaulieu, Mariana Mazza and Sonia Benezra. We also remember Dominic Paquet as Mario Pelchat and Dan Bigras, Michèle Deslauriers as Julie Snyder, and Benoît Paquette as François Bellefeuille and Pierre Lapointe. When the lyrics left something to be desired, their vocal prowess kept us captive.

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The songs ofInfoman (Infoman 2022)

Yes, the laughs were there. But can we also salute the musical portion ofInfoman 2022 ? The hour-long special opened with Clay and Friends, who hit it off with an ultra-danceable theme song, tailor-made to “move our thang », and ended with Oï or louzi tchervona kalyna, a Ukrainian patriotic anthem taken up to welcome the 120,000 Ukrainian refugees to Canada. The politicians took part in the segment by setting the pace, either by snapping their fingers (Steven Guilbeault), clapping their hands (Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, Bruno Marchand and Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, renamed Pas Si-Pire Plamondon), or by playing an instrument, a privilege reserved for Justin Trudeau (cowbell), François Legault (tambourine), Pierre Poilievre (triangle) and Mélanie Joly (synthesizer). Speaking of Mélanie Joly, we owe her the best line of the show. Asked by Jean-René Dufort about the looks Justin Trudeau’s summer haircut, the Minister of Foreign Affairs counterattacked by launching: “I find it funny that it’s you who talks about haircuts weird… »

Jean-René Dufort’s visit to Ukraine (Infoman 2022)

In the mind of Martin Saint-Louis with Antoine Vézina, the presentation of trophies at the drive-thru with FouKi and Jay Scott (or rather Funky and Scott Towel), Gouin’s zealous returning officer, Chantal Lamarre who describes the visit papal, Michel Charette who reproduces his break-up of the Happiness… For 60 minutes, Jean-René Dufort and company multiplied ingenious moves. The best of them? The presence of Jean-René Dufort in Ukraine. The host has made his trip overseas profitable by offering reports with angles as original as they are interesting, from a brief meeting with Ivanka Siokowsky, a Canadian volunteer who turns every bullet hole she encounters into a flower, to the dog Patron . His meeting with Amelia Anisovych, the little girl who sang let it go from the movie Frozen in full bombardment in a video that has gone viral, has passed the stage of good flash. We learned that she now resides in Warsaw, Poland, with her mother, but without her father, who remained in Ukraine due to compulsory enlistment in the army.