2023-07-28 02:45:00
It is not given to all comedians to present their show at the Bell Centre. Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais seized this incredible opportunity and turned it into a very pleasant evening.
Posted yesterday at 10:45 p.m.
The challenge was very big. To meet it, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais announced to us that he would present us with 372 jokes, including one, the final, which would be “the best”. When we saw it at its launch in fall 2021, for the first version of Jokes Hat Mom Magic Pianohe presented 312 of them, during a show at L’Olympia which convinced us.
“It’s sick, we are 700! “Launched the comedian to an almost full house of 8,000 people when he arrived on stage, before a fun introductory video.
Unlike his show in a small room, where the decor is elementary, this time he bet on a deployment at the height of the moment (we were even treated to fireworks).
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais was able to fill this huge stage on his own, moving a lot, but also being captivating enough not to give the impression that the space was too big around him.
True to form, the 28-year-old comedian used both his musical talents and his storytelling skills to entertain his audience.
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, THE PRESS
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais was very good during his interactions with the crowd.
And as long as he is on the Bell Center stage, he has joined a group of seven musicians (the Ouellette Family), deployed on the stage.
And as long as he had musicians on stage with him, he sometimes interacted with them, for gags that led to musical numbers (including the one on the hats, as ridiculous as a musical number on the hats can be ).
“Tonight, we get to know each other”
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais spoke of his fear of social networks, which certainly allowed him to fill a Bell Center, but which also have a little too much influence on us.
He played the comedian who thinks he’s a “star”, he talked regarding his relationship with people who give ratings to anything and everything online, he talked regarding his relationship to public comments and his bad eating habits. He also made farts and butt jokes.
His always extravagant facial expressions, his tendency to speak much too loudly, to gesticulate in all directions, his sometimes absurd jokes: everything Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais does is likely to stimulate us.
Most of his jokes hit home with the Bell Center crowd.
When he takes the time to share anecdotes with us, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais excels. A good storyteller, he recreates moments in life that often make people laugh, or at the very least smile.
He was also good when he briefly interacted with someone in the crowd, a young spectator dreaming of becoming a comedian.
The song that followed, regarding losing his heart as a child, for which he was accompanied by a choir, was one of the best. The comedian is also often excellent when he sings.
Music and jokes
“It’s thanks to my parents that I do this in life,” he said before recounting the moment he went on stage for the first time, during a show by Louis-José Houde, invited by the comedian himself.
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, THE PRESS
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais was accompanied by a group of seven musicians.
Another good moment of the evening: when he accumulated boring jokes, before “realizing” that his joke had “gone in the butter”. Disappointed with his performance, he withdrew, looking down… before returning dressed in a basketball jersey for a hip-hop number on the jokes that don’t lift.
For this rap-flavored song, he invited the rapper FouKi on stage with him, to the delight of the spectators.
As soon as he got comfortable on stage, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais was very solid in front of the huge floor and the crowded stands, at ease as if he did not have several thousand people. behind him. However, the impressive crowd was there, looking delighted by what the comedian presented to him, often hilarious.
The “best joke”, the one we had announced from the start, finally arrived. After raising expectations a lot, the comedian finally invited on stage the young girl who dreamed of becoming a comedian (as Louis-José Houde had done with him in his childhood). The moment might have been completely touching… but Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais made sure his show was absurd to the end.
The challenge of a comedy show at the Bell Center was very great. Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais picked it up well.
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