Louis T was due somewhere in late summer or early fall 2020 to deliver the media premiere of his second show, Truths and Consequences, which he had already been walking for more than a year in theaters of the province. What was the first sentence of this show? “We are living through the most beautiful time in the history of mankind. “
“I’m serious,” launches the comedian, laughing. I gave plenty of examples of scientific, social, economic, health progress to show how grateful we are for the wonderful times we are living in. I wanted to offer a counterweight to people who are always pessimistic about our time. “
A premise which, in the light of a certain virus, would know its expiration date as quickly as a pot of mayo in the bright sun. In May 2021, tired of his tour dates being constantly postponed and his material losing more relevance day by day, Louis T gave up Truths and Consequences, without giving up the stage. Indeed, it presents this fall News from Louis T, a year-round review partly based on the monologues with which he inaugurates each of the episodes of his podcast of the same name.
On tour from September 20, this show destined to die with the count of the New Year 2022 marks the long-term adoption, he hopes, of a modus operandi more flexible, certainly forcing it to start from zero every January, but responding better to a time when yesterday’s news already looks like a distant memory tomorrow, “like when you’re watching a show on Netflix of an American comedian who talks to you about Donald Trump. »
“There are elements of my one-man-show that I tried to recover and that no longer worked at all. Since 2019, the world has changed so much: we have experienced another wave of denunciations, a pandemic, a series of demands woke. And then there were a lot of things I wanted to say about 2020, 2021 that will no longer be relevant in six months, because at some point, this pandemic is going to be over. “Let’s not lose hope.
Tightrope walker humor
Does Louis T feel the public as willing to laugh at our collective misfortunes as before the arrival of COVID-19 in our lives? Are we as divided as the cliché is now? “I feel new sensibilities in my rooms. If people don’t know exactly what’s going to be your point, they’re not going to be open to laughing. Since I tend to say shocking things first, and then qualify, it makes it harder to laugh, but that’s an area I like. I like the work of tightrope walker. But I feel that people are afraid to laugh for the wrong reasons. “
For a little over a month, Louis T has completely deserted social networks, the opportunity to see that real life does not reside on the Internet. And that the vitriolic jousting that breaks out there has little to do with the art of dialogue that so many people still cherish, outside of the screen. He himself had become the target of attacks on Twitter and Facebook of an often unbelievable ferocity. “I could do an iPad gag and there were people who were annoyed. “
“We will have to realize that social networks are the octagon. People go there to fight. But let’s stop pretending it’s reality. […] The media will pick up too many subjects from social networks ”, giving disproportionate importance, he believes, to unqualified opinions. “Social networks are a parallel universe that should perhaps remain a parallel universe. “
“I still think that what we live socially, it is not as bad as what the distorting mirror of social networks sends back to us,” he continues. With friends or family, with love and kindness, people are not as far away as you might think. It’s just that there are media and political forces that push us to choose one side or the other. “
Accused of taking pleasure in the center by certain critics of the left, shouted at by part of the right, Louis T says more than ever that he wishes to reach out to everyone, even to those he is laughing at. “My way of contributing to a better dialogue is to try to be more unifying. I’m going to kill some people’s heads, but quickly I’ll say that I partly understand their point of view, if only to offer them a pole. It’s always can giveto feel superior to others in humor, but I try to be more unifying. It’s my way of sleeping well at night. This is where I’m the least anxious, the happiest, trying to get people to talk to each other. “
Even if that means receiving speakers at the microphone of his podcast with whom he does not immediately agree. “I long for knowledge, for some form of wisdom, and I don’t think I know that much yet. That’s why it’s interesting to talk to people who don’t necessarily think like me. I think it’s my responsibility as a comedian to have considered all aspects of a subject that I bring up. I’m not claiming it’s always super deep, but I owe the audience for giving thought to what I’m saying. “
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