Passing through the program Quelle époque!, presented by Léa Salamé on Saturday November 5, 2022 on France 2, Gad Elmaleh was very surprised by a mind-blowing question that the journalist dared to ask him.
Emblematic face of the French comedy scene for several decades now, Gad Elmaleh has also managed to establish himself in the cinema. The actor found himself over the years on the poster of many films, mainly popular comedies. However, the comedian has changed register in the feature film called Ris a little, which traces his conversion to Catholicism. It is precisely within the framework of the promotion of this new film that Gad Elmaleh was invited on the set of the program Quelle epoque!presented by Léa Salamé on Saturday November 5, 2022 on France 2. During the program, the journalist posed a very daring question to his guestwho was extremely surprised.
“You no longer smoke, you no longer drink, you go on retreats in monasteries. What is the next step ? Is it sexual abstinence? It’s finish ? You don’t fuck anymore?“, launched Léa Salamé to the comedian. Totally shocked by the audacity of the host, Gad Elmaleh was silent for a few seconds, before the presenter explains why she had allowed herself such a raw question about the sex life of her guest. “I had made a bet with the producer… whether I could say that or not. I won ! He told me : ‘You’ll never make it’. I told him : ‘Yes, I will!’“, she revealed, thus causing general hilarity on the set of Quelle epoque!. “This question confuses me a bit.“, finally recognized Gad Elmaleh.
Gad Elmaleh to Léa Salamé: “I ask you to keep it in the editing”
“I’m much more perverted than you imagine because I imagine this same sentence, but we are one-on-one in a restaurant, and you ask me the same question. And there is a blank. But, you’re going to keep it in the edit when you said that…“, added the comedian. “I don’t know, I don’t know if I’ll take it“, then clarified Léa Salamé. “Oh yeah ? Me, I think that the magic of TV is to keep in the edit the fact that I ask you to keep it in the edit“, immediately replied Gad Elmaleh, before the journalist came to conclude this improbable sequence: “Bah, there, I have to“. This surreal exchange between Léa Salamé and her guest should undoubtedly remain etched in the annals of the show.
As a reminder, what a time! was launched on the antenna of France 2 since the start of the school year in September 2022. This new talk show has taken the place of the show On est en direct, who occupied the Saturday box in the 2nd part of the evening for two years. While Léa Salamé and Laurent Ruquier formed a duo at the head of On est direct last season, the host of RTL’s Big Heads, frustrated by this format in which he did not flourish, decided to leave the show. He thus abandoned the Saturday slot in the second part of the evening on France 2, which he had occupied for 16 years already. Laurent Ruquier will now focus on other showslike Les Enfants de la télé, while Léa Salamé took over the controls of this emblematic box of the public channel.