Combining science and humor, former biology teacher Boucar Diouf became a humorist and then a full artist. “If you make people laugh, they give you everything,” he says. They open their bladders to you and open their hearts to you.” At 57, he offers his fifth solo exhibition: NOMO Sapiens.
“I’m on my X, Boucar Diouf starts immediately. I do what I want: comedy shows, I write books, I do radio popularity, conferences… I feel privileged and blessed by the gods.
The comedian has been working on this fifth solo show for three years. Whose goal? Try to replace the human in creation by pointing out what is special.
“I say: I’m going to put you right back in the middle between the chimpanzee (who lives in a phallocratic system) and the bonobo (who evolve in a system where the females have power) and we’re going to try to explain why you are a mixture of both he said with shining eyes. So someone who doesn’t want to hear about cousinship with great apes isn’t a good idea to watch my show [rires].”
The title NOMO Sapiens refers to the comedian’s desire to talk about “intelligence and human bullshit.” The NO that evokes the Nono that sleeps within each of us.
“I put science into humor,” continues the artist of Senegalese origin, who came to Rimouski in 1991. I wanted to wonder how we came to be such a very intelligent species that could do horrible bullshit at the same time! »
It was a “very fun, despite the complex subject matter,” show to which he nodded proudly to the feminist struggle. His greatest wish remains to touch his three targets of the human body: the spleen, the mind and the heart.
freedom in humour
“Laughter is a fan to dissipate the overflowing heat in the hyperactive brain, believes the one who has always had a tendency to laugh and laugh. Laughter lets us escape, including the hustle and bustle of everyday life. It is good for physical and mental health. Laughter gives us a little breather”
That overheated brain needs a break sometimes, and the intellectual Boucar Diouf is certainly not one to judge other types of humor.
“I wouldn’t, but I’m fighting for it to exist,” he says, addressing the recent saga sparked by comedy show LOL and its scatological jokes. There are people who love it and they shouldn’t be denigrated. Just like there are people who don’t come to see a show that talks about evolution.”
Little Boucar, who grew up with an illness that affected his right leg and prevented him from playing soccer with his brothers, learned early on to use humor to distract. “I was competitive and that’s stayed,” says the artist, whose dream is to perform on the Place des Arts for his 60th birthday.
- Boucar Diouf is traveling through Quebec with his show NOMO Sapiens. He will stop at Brossard on February 2nd, Shawinigan on March 11th and Trois-Rivières on March 31st. Tickets: boucar-diouf.com/