"The flowers of the carpet": has Rachid Badouri changed that much?Receive the last hour alerts of the duty

"I thought he was going to do the moonwalk", whispers Rachid Baroudi, after a long tirade on homophobia, by personifying a fictitious spectator, who would be taken aback by his metamorphosis - artistic and human - announced in the media since June 2019.There is indeed no imitation of Michael Jackson, nor a dance step, in this third show, the flowers of the carpet, presented Wednesday evening at Olympia in front of an audience of an almost surreal eclecticism (producer DeniseRobert, the host Ricardo Larrivée and the rapper Loud, seated a few seats).But can we talk about metamorphosis?Let's talk about the necessary updates.

His admitted desire not to make up his opinions anymore immediately translates into the discourse he takes on his origins.While the Badouri 1 Rachid 1.0 portrayed the good understanding prevailing among the different ethnocultural groups that make up contemporary Quebec with angelism bordering on voluntary blindness, the new Rachid readily admits that there are also racism here, including members of the Arab-Maghreb community-theSiena - are particularly victims.He draws prejudices with which he had to negotiate several effective punchs.

The humorist, that said, does not play in the sets of Guillaume Wagner, nor Fred Dubé.The social commentary, at home, is less intended to be an incisive pamphlet than a means of highlighting what should unite us all, namely our contempt for these individuals who strive to embody the worst prejudices associated with their culture (the terroristArab as the white, lazy Quebecois, just good to look at the golden egg chicken and vomit his hatred of the other on social networks).

Stripping and confidences

In an interview a few weeks ago, Rachid Badouri said he was inspired by the Archi-Dépouillée scenography of the most recent show by the American Aziz Ansari (Aziz Ansari: Right Now, offered on Netflix).With just a few lighting bridges and touring chests, the Quebecer manages to simply illustrate how he himself died in recent years.His most salutary transformation manifests in this consciousness of himself-of what he is, of what he gives off and what he represents-which now seems to animate it (polished way of saying that Badouri n'had never seemed very good so far for self -mockery).

The young father, now 43 years old, finally seems to have understood that a humorist can draw a good part of his raw material in his own contradictions.The former Rachid would probably not have dared to denounce the too skinny wages of the teachers, lest we send him back to the face the fortunes that the comedians engage.He takes the bet here - fruitful - to first approach this unhappy absurdity.

The confidences he offers about his fear that his daughter, now six years old, one day dredged by predators, however confine the discomfort.Badouri had a great opportunity to question the reasons why so many men assumed women, or even to comment on the allegations of sexual misconduities weighing on Gilbert Rozon, with whom he has long collaborated.

He could also have remembered that women would not have to take martial arts lessons (like those to whom he said he registered his daughter) if men simply stopped committing assaults.Evoke the recent Mascouche drama (and this man accused of the unpremeditated murder of his spouse), even with the noblest intentions, appears also awkward and useless (especially in the heart of an already very long evening).

Salutary self -mockery

It is therefore when he speaks of himself, his two-sided, that Badouri really reinvents himself.His story of the infection (a cellulite) who almost had his skin, his fear of dying, the ultimatum of his lasse companion to take his tyrannical attitude, and his reluctance to consult a psychologist, forms the heartof this show.Do not want to ask for help from a mental health specialist, for fear of going for weakness: this is one of those nonsense whose Badouri family is not the only.

What has not changed at Rachid Badouri?The most powerful laughs he generates were less, on Wednesday evening, from a well -found turn of sentence, or a penetrating observation, than his almost superhuman ability for accents, imitations and pantomime.If swag, charisma, is inseparable from self -confidence, and self -confidence inseparable from an intimate knowledge of its flaws, it will not be surprised that Rachid Badouri has never had as much swag as today'hui.

Of Rachid Badouri.On tour everywhere in Quebec until January 2021