2023-12-09 21:37:57
The French actor, director and comedian Patrick Timsit will perform on Sunday at the Théâtre du Léman, in Geneva, with his show “Adieu…perhaps. Thank you…it’s sure”, as a farewell. At 64 and after 35 years of career, he is stopping comedy shows, but admits to having other projects to come.
Born in Algiers in 1959, Patrick Timsit was two years old when his parents left Algeria to move to Paris. After a short career in real estate, he quickly undertook a career change in the theater and got noticed in the early 1990s on television sets, notably alongside Christophe Dechavanne, with sketches with corrosive humor, not hesitating to approach delicate subjects.
Logical continuation: cinema, which he began in 1991 with “A wonderful era”, by Gérard Jugnot, then with “La Crise”, by Coline Serreau (1992). He followed this up with two popular successes: “An Indian in the City” (1994) with Thierry Lhermitte and “Pédale Douce” (1995) which he co-wrote with Pierre Palmade. The actor even goes through the box of composition roles, as in 1996 in “Passage à l’acte”, by Francis Girod.
But boards remain his first love. Since the 1980s, Patrick Timsit has done one-man shows, until a controversy over people with Down syndrome spoiled his fun. However, he returned to the stage 13 years later, without hard feelings.
Invited on Saturday on 7:30 p.m., Patrick Timsit briefly returned to this controversy: “I have never had a problem with disabled people. I only had problems with able-bodied people who spoke for disabled people,” explains -he.
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End clap on December 20
Sunday evening, Patrick Timsit will take the stage of the Théâtre du Léman, in Geneva with “Farewell…perhaps. Thank you…that’s for sure”. A show as a farewell to his career as a comedian, which he has been performing for three years and which will take him to Bordeaux for a final date on December 20.
If the public struggles to believe in a definitive farewell, the French actor is more affirmative. “Sixty-four is young to stop, but I think it’s time. The important thing is to know that I believe in it, but it’s also great to know that the public doesn’t believe it,” he declared on the RTS set.
Patrick Timsit believes that he could have been content to make a best-of to finish, “but one would have thought that I no longer wanted to do anything”, he observes. “I said to myself: ‘Farewells, it’s a great theme’, I part in love with my audience, so obviously, it inspires a lot.”
A way of laughing that has evolved
With a career spanning 35 years, Patrick Timsit has observed a change in the way we laugh. For him, we no longer laugh in the same way “and so much the better”.
“We have to evolve with the times. At the time, me first, we complained about political correctness, saying that we can no longer laugh at everything. But I realize that today there is no never had so many young comedians expressing themselves. So in fact, we shouldn’t hide behind the argument of political correctness in order to make sexist, racist or homophobic jokes… No, it’s just not funny “, he says.
If Patrick Timsit seems to have turned the page on humor, he does not intend to put an end to the stage or the cinema. “Yes, I can continue, I already have series and theater projects,” he slips when concluding.
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