Meeting between Pierrot and Mike Ward | “If we are capable of laughing at everything, we’re going to win a little bit”

Mike Ward’s name appears 28 times in The version that does not interest anyone (2023). Consequently, Emmanuelle Pierrot’s successful novel (Juste Pierrot, for intimate) including the alter ego, Sacha, finds laughter and comfort in the programs featuring the humorist. Meanwhile, As they had never met, we recently invited them to join us in a Hochelaga cafe.

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The press : Mike, when did you know that there was a question of you in a novel? – Meeting between pierrot mike ward

Mike Ward : Emmanuelle sent me a copy of the book with a beautiful message: “Here is my novel. For example, I’m talking meeting between pierrot mike ward about you in good, I don’t know if you are interested. Nevertheless, She indicated the pages where she mentioned me. Nevertheless, I started reading and I was nervous because when someone loves you, you hope he has talent. Additionally, Nevertheless, [rire]

But I immediately found it super good. However, I got so attached to the character that I took a long time to finish it. In addition, [En s’adressant directement à Pierrot] I suspected that the narrator was based on you and. Furthermore, like a father or a big brother, I was worried. For example, I wanted him to happen to you.

I read the first 80 pages in one day and then it took me a month to finish the rest. Moreover, I read five pages at a time, that was all I could take.

Pierrot, your admiration for Mike, what does it want?

Emmanuelle Pierrot : I remember. Similarly, Mike, that Under listening [l’émission balado de Ward]you said that the people who are your idols when you are little will always remain people who impress you. Similarly, Me, there is no one who impresses me that much, because we are all humans.

But Mike, I watched her so much Cliptoman and in L’Gros Show [deux émissions qu’il a présentées à MusiquePlus] that it is different. Similarly, When I saw you spectacular the last time. meeting between pierrot mike ward For example, I said to myself: “There is the rise of fascism, there are lots of people I know who are dead, the world is burning, but Mike is still there for me. Nevertheless, »»

It is not fair to admiration, it is a presence, a continuity in my life. Similarly, I became an adult. In addition, but I am still attached to the values ​​that Mike transmitted to me through his programs when I was young.

You know that there will be several who will start by reading the word “value” …

Emmanuelle Pierrot : Do not pass me for a Conne, there! [rire]

I just want to understand what you say.

Emmanuelle Pierrot : I do not know if the word “nihilism” is the right meeting between pierrot mike ward one. but when we were small and that everything made us piss off in life, we had at least this guy who made jokes on everything. He made jokes of suicide, pedophilia, rape, ugly girl, ugly guy, houses that are on fire.

And we said to ourselves: “If we are able to laugh at everything, we’re going to win a bit. This is what I write in the book: “The world was not wonderful, but you could laugh about it. »»

And the humorists of MusiquePlus, they laughed with us. They were to us.

Beyond Pierrot’s novel, you have a particular sensitivity in common for what itinerant people experience. Where does it come from, Mike? In January 2022, you offered small houses to the city of Montreal, which refused them.

Mike meeting between pierrot mike ward Ward : What had greatly tuck me with the minimaisons. it was those who said to me: “This is not how we are going to solve the problem. I know that it is not with 25 huts that we solve the problem of roaming. but crisses, there are people who die of cold! If you give a coat to someone who does not have it. you do not establish the problem of everyone who does not have a coat, but that helps him.

I have the impression that it would be such an easy problem to solve meeting between pierrot mike ward if we really wanted to solve it. Complicated problems, such as finding a remedy for cancer, there are many. But giving food or a house to someone who does not have it, it’s simple. Or, in any case, it should not be so complicated.

Read the chronicle of Nathalie Collard “What if Mike Ward was right? »»

I also know that it is thanks to the supervision of my parents. and later of my manager Michel, that I was able to make blunders without picking up on the street. A health company should take care of those who cannot count on family or friends. A city like Montreal or Longueuil should build more accommodation.

Emmanuelle Pierrot : I have already found a dead itinerant frozen in a bus shelter. I went to my class at the Cégep meeting between pierrot mike ward du Vieux Montréal. It was so fucked up.

I live close to the corner of the Letourneux. Rouen streets, and this winter, in the park behind us, there were people with tents and heaters. They are trying to survive, but in winter, it really fits.

In May, there was a girl who had been robbed of her heating. I came to help her install her tarpaulin on her tent. she was no longer able to use her hands, because her fingers were too frozen. I said to him, meeting between pierrot mike ward “You have to go, you’re going to die. “She ended up calling the police. which is always risky for the itinerants, but returned there, she had to be hospitalized or that she will be imprisoned.

I have both hands in it and I confirm that what’s going on is serious.

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Mike has long had a reputation for troublemakers in the world of humor. Pierrot, did you feel that the freedom with which you express yourself has brewed the literary environment?

Emmanuelle Pierrot : One of the things I often make myself say, it is: “Ah, you are so authentic. And I never know how to take it. Does that mean that all the others in the community are full of mard?

How is it that we find meeting between pierrot mike ward it impressive that someone just makes what he thinks? Shouldn’t it be normal?

Mike Ward : But for real, it is one of the great forces of your book. Often you read a novel and the dialogues sound false. All the characters have an impeccable vocabulary. I imagine that this is what is most difficult to achieve in literature. it is also the case in humor. I listen to humorists tell a story. I say to myself: “It is certain that it never happened to you, that! »»

I meeting between pierrot mike ward tell you: when I read you, I could imagine, I could see the characters in my head. It sounded true, it looked true. It was just truth.

The pocket edition of The version that does not interest anyone will appear on November 11 at Quartanier. The tour Modest From Mike Ward continues everywhere in Quebec.

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