MEDIA – If Marie s’infiltre doesn’t make you laugh, it’s not because she’s not funny. No, it’s because she’s not a comedian. Really? Yes. At least, that’s what she insisted on Monday, September 29, on France 5’s C à vous, where she was questioned about the very poor reception of her columns on France Inter.
Her motto: dare to displease. “Knowing when there will be criticism or something that could destabilize us, you have to ask yourself: is this really who I am, what I do, or not? There’s something wonderful about criticism,” she explains, assuring that she “loved” the criticism that appeared in her posts.
On the Radio France Ombudsman’s forum, there are plenty of them. “A real shipwreck. When will Marie s’exfiltre be here?” wonders one listener. “I’m allowing myself this message because we’ve already been suffering for three weeks, and that’s an understatement,” wrote another. “With three weeks of hindsight, we have to admit: it’s anything but funny. It’s embarrassing, uncontrolled, always off-topic.”
The press echoed the same sentiment. “Desperately not funny,” headlined Le Figaro, shortly after the latter’s arrival on France Inter. The thirty-year-old was chosen to replace Lison Daniel’s scathing Monday spots. “In France Inter’s morning show, laughter is seeping out,” according to Le Nouvel Obs, while Télé Star spoke of a “palpable unease.”
“It’s true, we’re not laughing.”
Wham? Not really. The main person concerned brushed aside the criticism. “I said to myself: ‘It’s true, we’re not laughing.’ But that’s because I’m not a comedian.” I can sometimes use comedy, but I’m not a comedian, she insists, still on C à vous. And I’m not here to make people laugh. My goal isn’t to make people laugh.”
Despite being described as a “video comedian” on the France Inter website, the YouTuber, who became known on social media for her audacious and embarrassing happenings (Gigi Hadid at the Chanel show will surely remember this), was chosen for her sketches, her songs, and her audacity, we learned in Le Parisien last August.
The artist, who initially dreamed of becoming a politician, now fills theaters across France and Navarre (she’ll even be at the Accor Arena in Paris on December 20), where she says she wants to say out loud what people think to themselves. Among her latest provocations? A sketch set against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, aimed at reconciling “the rebels” and “the Zionists” in the form of a role-playing game in the middle of a show. France Inter listeners can rest easy. They escaped.
