Thomas Ngijol is on tour for his new show, The eye of the tiger. He will be at the Olympia, in Paris, on December 22 and 23. Before meeting him, in a chic bistro in 8e district, we imagined the comedian delighted to be on the road. ” Actually no. I don’t really like being on tour, finding myself alone, far from my family. I have my routine. My life as a dad, as a parent, is my balance. Getting up at 7 am, the morning panic, taking the girls to school… For my last tour, my first daughter was small. Selfishly, I said to myself, it’s going to be cool, freedom, sleep. From the first evening, I said to myself: “What am I doing here?”. From now on, I manage not to leave more than three or four days in a row. »
His family is a base. He lives with “five women” : his wife, actress Karole Rocher, her two daughters from previous unions, and their two daughters, Angelina, 8, and Carmen, 4 years old. Thomas Ngijol, 44, says fatherhood has transformed the way he works. “In my shows, my children are omnipresent, because all the questions of society are in them. It gives meaning to my work. » In 2021, the comedian made a series of podcasts, “Pépères”in which he talks about friends, men he loves about their place as fathers: intimate, sensitive and funny episodes, with Teddy Riner, Grand Corps Malade or David Marsais from Palmashow.
The first time you felt like a father?
It’s with my daughters-in-law, my wife’s two daughters. When I met them they must have been in 4e and in CM1. This was done without forcing, very slowly. On a daily basis, I gradually developed a feeling of responsibility, of protection vis-à-vis them. I remember one day when I took one of them shopping for shoes. I found myself walking around town shaking hands with a petite blonde, and it felt perfectly natural! This is how I felt father. Obviously, they call me by my first name, and if in anger they had the idea of throwing the famous “You’re not my father!” “, I would answer them:” Of course! Did you see my face? ! “. But they are the ones who put me in the bath.
Have you ever cried in front of your children?
I cried about thirty seconds after the birth of my first daughter, Angelina. Inexhaustible crying, like a fountain. Like I’ve kept those tears inside me all my life, just for this moment. More recently, I took my daughters to the Booba concert. It was a great family moment, they were very happy. At one point, he brought his two children on stage to Little girl. And there I said to myself: if the tough of the tough opens his heart to this point, who am I not to cry? And I cried. At the Booba concert. With my youngest in her arms.
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