Mégan Brouillard's colorful speech? “You’re really not the first person to mention this,” confirms the 24-year-old comedian. “They say to me, 'You're actually from Saguenay, right?'” She's originally from Drummondville. “And the world of Drummond says to me, 'What kind of misrepresentation are you giving us here?'” »
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Why she ?
Because his show “Chiendent”, which we saw in the run-in, made us laugh a lot, a lot. A lot.
How is it then that Mégan Brouillard, born in 1999 to a primary school teacher and a mechanical engineer, expresses herself, both on stage and in life, like a character from “The Time of Peace”? a fan of Fabien Cloutier's regionalisms?
This is because Mégan Brouillard played the village idiot in Village québécois d'antan between the ages of 16 and 18. “It really messed me up,” she says during a debacle-style interview in which she continually alternates between crazy anecdotes, hilarious observations and jokes aimed at the La Presse Sports team, particularly Katherine Harvey-Pinard , which she adores.
If there are two categories of comedians, those who get funny when the spotlight turns on and those who are funny everywhere, always, all the time, Mégan Brouillard undeniably belongs to the second. It's not for nothing that she has 171,600 subscribers on TikTok, a platform that she knew how to use as a springboard.
At the end of that interview, the journalist almost offered his interviewee $30—roughly the price of a ticket for an up-and-coming comedian—for making him laugh so much.
“In the Village I had to improvise all day to develop reflexes to pick up people who didn't want to come and spend the day there,” she remembers. I had a huge free pass to do whatever I wanted. It doesn't matter that I wasn't restricted. »
One day a teacher, who was visiting with her students, complained to the village chief about the somewhat harsh tone that the village idiot used towards her young people. “My boss called me into his office,” says Mégan, more desperately than proudly, “and I was sure that it was about throwing me out, but he wanted to congratulate me: “Well done for being such a cuckoo in a cuckoo you were!” »
The thorn in the rose bush
A big consumer of comedy podcasts since her youth, Mégan Brouillard knew that very young candidates were rarely admitted to the National School of Humor benches of the comic institution.
The ease acquired at the Village québécois d'antan undoubtedly explains why, to her utter astonishment, she was accepted at her first audition, even though she was only 19 years old and only had stage experience relating to her participation in Secondary and Cégeps en spectacle limited.
Although her stage persona – “it's not really a character,” she explains – has something of a dog in a bowling game, Mégan Brouillard still deals with less personal or crazy topics, such as the invisibility of women in the world of hockey .
“I was there for six months, listening to podcasts and watching all the games,” she explains of the sport she fell in love with during the pandemic, “and the only woman I knew was Carey Price’s blonde.”
In Quebec, you know who Cole Caufield is even if you refuse to care about men's hockey, but you won't quickly find information about women's hockey even if you try to be interested.
Megan Brouillard
Her first show, which she will perform until its premiere in Montreal next October, is called “Chiendent,” a word treasured by her grandmother. Quack, as in the expression: We must stop quack before he becomes a seed. “Because I often think I look like couch grass. »
Example: She recently took part in the show On va se le dire, accompanied by the very serious Patrick Masbourian, Michel Jean and Stéphan Bureau. “And the whole time I thought: It doesn't matter that I'm here. »
But Mégan Brouillard is “the thorn in the side” and enjoys it, because this privileged role allows her to visit all the regions of Quebec – she talks about a visit to Val-d'Or with the same wonder as if she had returned from there would be the Côte d'Azur – and come into contact with people she would never have met otherwise.
Suddenly she becomes very serious, which is extremely rare in her company, and remembers a company show in front of members of the Union of Agricultural Producers. “Making people who don’t necessarily look like me laugh and have fun with them is one of the things that resonates with me the most. »
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Mégan Brouillard presents her show Chiendent throughout Quebec and is part of Marc Labrèche's Chakras in the show Jeviens vers toi on Noovo.