The return of “Caméra Café”, for an evening on M6, was strongly tackled by a journalist from “Parisien”… enough to arouse the immense anger of Bruno Solo. The actor, furious, answered him in an interview.
Series coffee camera celebrated its two decades of existence, a little late, this Tuesday, January 24, 2023 with the prime event Café camera, 20 years already. For the occasion, a special evening was organized on M6 with the broadcast of the new program and then a documentary on this very cult sitcom. 20 years later, Jean-Claude Convenant (Yvan Le Bolloc’h) and Hervé (Bruno Solo) observed the changes in society while remaining the same. And that didn’t please everyone… The duo was at the heart of an incendiary article by Parisian.
Camera Café, 20 years later: what to expect?
Calt Production, which operates this bonus, had unveiled the pitch before the broadcast: “Jean-Claude is fired! Having become a has-been in the box transformed into a 2.0 company, his latest scheme gave management the perfect excuse to get rid of him. Charged by the management to make Jean-Claude clear off quickly and without a scene, Hervé will help him pack his boxes. In doing so, they will tear down their memories, mixing the great and the small history of the past 20 years.”
“You will see that everything has changed a lot in front of the coffee machine, especially societal upheavals. We wanted to make a fierce social satire ‘at the Camera café’“, had entrusted the promotion of actor Bruno Solo to Buzz-TV of Figaro.
Distressing, sexist, grossophobic… “Camera Café” misses its return to M6. By @emeline_collet https://t.co/UFUU5ZbP4s – via @the Parisian #CameraCafe
— Emmanuel Marolle (@emarolle) January 24, 2023
Camera Café: The return judged by the press, Le Parisien is loose!
A return that seems to have conquered a large majority of the public – M6 came 2nd in audiences with more than 3 million viewers – but also part of the press, when you take a quick look. “We probably did not expect to find hope in a prime time Camera café, one evening in January 2023 on one of the most watched channels in France“, written for example Slate. But in the columns of Parisianit’s not at all the same story…
“Distressing, sexist, grossophobic: Camera Café misses its return to M6.“ This is how journalist Emeline Collet from Parisian title of his very critical article on version 2.0 of Cafe Camerae. “The young rednecks have become old idiots“, writes the journalist, not really a fan of the humor of the duo. “Their sympathy capital has disappeared, they no longer inspire compassion.” Critics that did not really please Bruno Solo, who was extremely upset.
🔴 Bruno Solo’s rant against an article @the Parisian :
🗣️”Some have paid with their lives for daring to do the kind of humor of #CameraCafe ! In France, blasphemy is not reprimanded! Calm down this journalist!”
📺https://t.co/GLFbUvhOvn pic.twitter.com/Vnpn6iWv42
— South Radio (@SudRadio) January 24, 2023
Bruno Solo criticizes the lack of freedom of expression
“These are fictional characters cartoonish and pathetic, he assured. There is nothing of Jean-Claude and Hervé in Yvan et moi ! It’s bad faith at best, dishonesty and intellectual laziness at worst.. When you know my commitments to certain causes such as the defense of violence against women and children, it’s amazing to read that! “he told Figaro Buzz TV.
At the microphone of Sud Radio, Bruno Solo gave a layer of it and protested at the way in which the return of Cafe Camera has been criticized: “I’m going to be a little provocative, but they paid for it with their lives, some of them! For having dared to make a humor of which some might say ‘yes, but perhaps the limits of humor are blasphemous humor’. Except that in a secular republic, we have the right. Blasphemy is not reprimanded by law. (…) Because they blasphemed, they were murdered”, he laments, referring to the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.
“So I want to tell this journalist that she calms down ! Of course, I know that’s not her intention, but for her to realize how much by trying to accuse us of having made ideological humor, she could ensure that there is a fool in the street that crosses me and says to me ‘how dare you talk like that’… But there, I think I’m dreaming, what! I think I dream of this bad faith.“ If this journalist did not appreciate the humor, Bruno Solo can be reassured: the viewers were there and the majority seems to have appreciated this “a comedy as fierce as it is tender”, as noted 20 minutes.