In a long interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Jamed Debbouze returned to his career and in particular to his beginnings. Indeed, when he was younger, this ace of theatrical improvisation immediately found his way: “When I realized that I was being paid to play dumb, I decided to do this all my life” he explains with humor, “I had learned enough regarding the markets of Trappes and improvisation to be able to live from my chat he recalls.
Revealed to the general public on Radio Nova then on Canal +, in particular thanks to the popular success of the series ‘H’, everything was not however so simple for the husband of Mélissa Theuriau, when integrating the encrypted channel. Indeed while the latter was occurring on: “all possible and imaginable open scenes in Parisian café-theatres”he was spotted thanks to a happy coincidence: “Jacques Massadian and Jean-François Bizot (the bosses of Radio Nova editor’s note), it was Eric and Ramzy that they came to see at the Théâtre Trévise. The luck that I had is that they kept the three of us he explains before adding: “At Canal+, at the start, Alain De Greef (the program director of Canal+), did not want to hear regarding me”.
“At first glance, I am not structured, I speak quickly “Estimates the comedian, but fortunately for him, Jacques Massadian and Jean-François Bizot saw in him a diamond in the rough: “These guys have a sense of the moment and the society they live in. They say to themselves, it’s a voice, it’s new, it’s impossible not to try. The mixture, the unknown, the foreigner do not frighten them”. This is how the film Le cinéma de Jamel, which began on Radio Nova, was given a television version launched on Canal+. In view of the career of Jamel Debbouze, we can say that the two bosses had a lot of flair…
Thierry Claude