2023-10-09 18:01:49
In his new one-man show, the columnist and comedian takes a look back at the 90s, those of his early youth. A show in which Pablo Mira mixes his sarcasm with a tender nostalgia that we didn’t know about.
We knew him much more ferocious in his columns on current affairs at Daily (on TMC), including in the latest version, 4 minutes douche comprise. The exercise of being alone on stage is different. Especially since in his new show, Simple past, Pablo Mira, 37, sets out to twist the neck of the 90s, which are also those of his youth. His gaze is therefore imbued with nostalgia.
Sitcoms, the internet and video games
“Tonight you are 500, 3000 with bedbugs“: obviously, the comedian can’t help but start with a good punchline on the news. But he then takes us on a journey in his “decade of heart“in front of a big screen where the artifacts of the time parade. The TV, with its six channels, which was then”a full member of the family“. And to scratch what the young people then nursed like the Dorothée Club, Friends and AB Productions sitcoms. Ninja Turtles They also take it for their rank but the humor remains tender, never mean. We don’t destroy our comforters.
The 90s were also a technological leap with video games on Nintendo, the beginnings of the internet and the high-pitched sound so characteristic of the connection, the monstrous slowness in downloading anything, not to mention illegal downloading which amounted to “fuck without a condom“, the risk being of catching a virus.
Was it better before?
Pablo Mira also refreshes our memory on the music side. During this decade, America gave us Madonna, Nirvana and the Wu-Tang Clan while France introduced us to… Celtic rap from Manau. It was also the triumph of boy bands, the Spice Girls and Michael Jackson – “King of pop de jour, King of poppers la nuit“, he mocks. From sour candies to the threat of failing in vocational high school, the eighties parade at high speed, weighed down with “memories so strange they seem to come from another world“. Including the photo of Pablo Mira as a teenager, unrecognizable with the zero ball.
So was it better before? No, obviously, even if things were simpler, from junk food in good conscience to seat belts in the back that parents didn’t care about. In this one-man show with a somewhat challenging niche – those under 25 and over 60 risk feeling excluded due to lack of references – the co-founder of the parody newspaper The Graph above all reveals a more endearing side of himself. The other side of the coin: the pace is slower, and the madman is less hilarious than usual. Which prevents neither the vachardian remarks, nor the sarcasm accompanied by a few jokes stickier than the sweetened condensed milk that he loved so much.
Pablo Mira “Simple past” Ice Palace (duration 1h30)
Thursday to Saturday at 9 p.m.
37 rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris
Tel : 01 42 02 27 17
The poster for Pablo Mira’s single on stage “Pasté simple”. (PRODUCTION POW POW POW)
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