Thierry Ardisson, the interviewer who liked to “mix a whore and a archbishop”

“A good interviewer is someone who, when he was little, like to tear off the wings of flies well,” he had fun saying. Therefore, Thierry Ardisson. Meanwhile. Meanwhile, who died on Monday at the age of 76 on Monday, had the sense of the formula as much as a very personal way to pass his guests to the question. Furthermore, “You have to be a little sadistic. Furthermore, If you are too nice, it doesn’t work. Moreover, You have to want to tickle. Meanwhile. Therefore, hurt, support where it does not feel good, otherwise, there is no point in doing this job, “he explained to 20 Minutes One May 2019.

The man in black had given us a long interview provided that thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new he could read it again before publication. However, A request that was one of his habits. In addition, But if it thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked imposed it. Nevertheless, it was to correct a possible factual error and not to mitigate the content of his remarks. However, On the contrary. Meanwhile. However, he took advantage of the exercise to add a few crisp cowards here and there, aware that a successful interview never pours into lukewarmness.

Rather, he tended to play with fire. However, From his first program, “Police descent”, in 1985 on TF1, he managed his guests in a decor of police station. Therefore, A interrogation far from a complacency at the Michel Drucker. Similarly, In television of the time. Therefore. Furthermore, he distinguished himself, and it was not difficult for him to impose his trademark between unwelcome innuendo and tinged with aggressiveness, sensationalism and funny reflections. A thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new paw thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked often imitated. parodied, especially by the strangers who pastiche its “double game” of the early 1990s on the two in “game trouble”.

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His rule: do not eat with his guests – Thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked – Thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new

The only rule he said never derogating was never binding with the personalities he invited: “When you become a friend with them. you cannot interview them. I spent all my life not to eat with them to keep my freedom of speech. “Ironically. in 2003. when he launched” 93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré “playing the Parisian dinner card at his home, he had no experience in the matter:” For Paris Première, I made, for four seasons, twenty-five dinners per year at home. I had never done it before and I did not do it after. »»

Thierry Ardisson believed that current television looked like “filmed radio”. He had thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new a sense of decor and staging. Casting too. From “Everyone speaks” that he animated on France 2 thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked from 1998 to 2006. he said that “putting people around a table is not extraordinary” but that “what was strong was to mix a whore. a archbishop”. Nor did he hesitate to serve alcohol at will in the lodges to his guests. The faithful of the show followed her because they knew that was that everything could happen. Like asking Michel Rocard if “sucking is deceiving”. Or invite Thierry Meyssian to unroll his conspiracy theory on September 11. Retrospectively the host will admit that she had committed “a fault”.

« L’humour-humiliation »

“Thierry Ardisson is a manipulator, whom I do not respect,” said Lio last year. In 2006. on the set of “Everyone talks about it”. she was indignant at the way Marie Trintignant was killed by Bertrand Cantat. Faced with her, thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new Muriel Cerf who minimized the facts. The sequence is painful to see. In 2024. also. when the Legion of Honor was thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked awarded to Thierry Ardisson, Christine Angot split a platform to indignant this recognition and denounce “humor-humiliation” which he demonstrated.

In April. Laurent Baffie. the sniper of the show, made his mea culpa: “The other day, I saw a compilation of valves that we did with little singers, what we called” weak prey “… The singers, with Thierry, we were not tender. And there are things that make me ashamed, yes, “he confessed. Ardisson replied. upset. a few days later in the columns of The Sunday Tribune : « [Baffie] Takes 10,000 balls per week and today, he spit in the soup saying that we were stupid and macho! »»

A 20 Minutessix years ago, he recognized having had a macho side. “I have changed thierry ardisson, interviewer who liked new a lot since I was with Audrey [Crespo-Mara, son épouse]. She healed me from that, she forbids me sexist valves! I do not force myself to thierry ardisson. interviewer who liked be less macho, it seems natural to me, but at the time, no. »»

Posterity

Thierry Ardisson had settled in recent years. Even if “Hotel du Temps”, its latest concept on France Télévisions in 2022, had a subversive dimension. Via artificial intelligence. the man in black brought back to the stars who were deceased to interview them. as if he had the power to transcend death.

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He had already anticipated his posterity by launching. in 2020. in collaboration with the National Audiovisual Institute, the YouTube channel Ina Arditube, compiling and contextualizing extracts from its most memorable interviews. So that everyone continues to talk about it.