Louise Bernard
The sketch of the comedian invited to the Télématin program fell flat on the set on Monday, evoking the terrorist of the Nice attack, whose trial opened this week. The management of France Télévisions as well as the teams of the show have apologized on social networks.
“The management of France Télévisions and the Télématin teams regret that a column with a humorous vocation has rightly offended many viewers.” The public audiovisual group flatly apologized on Monday after the failed sketch of a comedian invited to the set. “We apologize and express our solidarity with the victims of the Nice attack and their loved ones.” Here are the few lines published by France Télévisions on Twitter. This follows the column of the comedian of Alexandra Pizzagali a few hours earlier. In addition, it was his first in Télématin, on France 2.
The direction of @FranceTele and the teams of @Telematin regret that a column with a humorous vocation rightly offended many viewers.
We offer our apologies and express our solidarity with the victims of the Nice attack and their loved ones.– France Televisions (@Francetele) September 5, 2022
The terrorist compared to an “ideal man”
For her column, she chooses as subject theopening of the trial of the Nice attack. And more precisely to ironize on the personality of the terrorist.
“Lover of salsa and bodybuilding. For the moment forgive me but he still looks a lot like my ideal man. It seems that we are on a portrait of Ricky Martin from the Côte d’Azur, we validate. He was also an extremely violent, sexually obsessed and zoophilic husband. Well… Who has never… No… We’ll go there point by point… Extremely violent husband? Maybe she had looked for him too? By missing a cooking or by giving his opinion…”, unpacked in front of the presenters the young humorist.
An advertisement launched in the middle of the column
No laughter on set. And even less on social networks, where many viewers were outraged. The advertisement is, in addition, launched in the middle of his column. Which makes the sequence a fiasco. It was not about censorship, according to the comedian who reacted on Instagram a little later… Simply a question of advertising programmed “to the minute”. The show was a bit late.
In return for publicity, the comedian had all the same had a word for the victims: “We are with you body and soul. You deserve to be heard”.