Twenty years ago, from the first minutes of my comedy shows at golf tournaments or corporate galas, I always started my numbers with a good, old-fashioned story.
The kind that starts with “Once it’s a guy…” I felt like people loved it and there was a lot of laughs. Just like in the good old days, not cheeky, just jokes, before continuing with comical texts on current events, the health system, aging, sports, imitations and everything else.
I felt like the audience was asking for more and I started adding these good jokes and sprinkling them into the show as the themes fitted. I found it interesting because I also found out that nobody in the profession does it. Our old and young comedians didn’t address that and that suited me.
Storytelling, an art
At some point, my friend Jean Langevin, who lived in France for a long time, told me on the internet that I should visit Jean-Marie Bigard. This humorist now only lives from this kind of humor.
Just jokes, jokes, news, old stories told and acted more than skillfully. There is an art to telling such jokes and he is a master at it. Really !
So much so that Bigard has now encouraged French TV producers to organize and host evenings where we tell jokes like we saw here 50 years ago, notably on the show So Tell.
Visit him
I often type Bigard on the internet and visit him at work.
He’s brilliant, even if he’s not afraid of insolence. It’s not the same in France.
Here these stories usually start with: “Once upon a time there was a guy…”
On the French sets it starts with: “So, it’s the guy…”
POTATO AND NO POTATO
- I finished assembling my IKEA dresser and never followed the plan. After all, it’s a stool.
- How do you say GPS in Arabic? Osamen.
- “Can we make cholesterol by eating salvos? (A Leafs fan)
- Tom Watson once said, “Golf is very simple. You hit the ball and look for it. »
- In the playoffs, it seems the judges make bad decisions better.
- Thanks to the barcode reader, we now know how much a zebra costs.
- Bernard Landry quoted Churchill: “It takes three hours to prepare a three-minute speech. It takes 3 minutes to prepare a three-hour speech. »
- Snowblowers just arrived at Costco.
- Drop a box of spaghetti on the ground and you’ll get a good idea of the state of Montreal’s road network.
- Marcel says he threw a boomerang and has lived in fear ever since.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
- All mothers have beautiful children, but mine overdid it… Phew!
- No worries. If there’s a problem, there’s always a mother there…
- A mother never dies. It just ceases to be there. I know it…
