“I love jokes and I like to do it with you,” exclaimed Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais after accepting his third prize of an evening from which he emerged as the big winner, like last year.
He left the 2022 ceremony with three statuettes, but the three he adds to his harvest this year take on a surplus of prestige. After two editions of the Oliviers adapted to the sad reality of the pandemic, the comedy gala renewed on Sunday with the beating heart of its mission: to celebrate what funny professionals accomplish on stage, in flesh and blood and in sweat.
With his look of caïd in Omertà and with emotion, Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais thus went to pick up the trophies of the author of the year/comedy show (also awarded to his comrades David Beaucage and Alexandre Forest), of the comedy show of the year as well as the Olivier of the year. Her show is titled Jokes Chapeau Maman Magie Piano; he can rename it Jokes [Tower of] Hat Mom Magic Piano.
First icing on the hat: its director Guillaume Girard also won, at the end of the afternoon, during the gala of the industry, in the appropriate category. Second icing on the hat: Completely High School, the American soap-novel parody co-created by Roy-Desmarais with Rosalie Vaillancourt, won in the comedy web series of the year category.
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais becomes the third comedian to triumph in the three most important categories during the same evening, after Louis-José Houde in 2009 (for Following the parade) and Mike Ward in 2019 (for Black). He is, however, the only one to have accomplished this feat with a first show.
Due to the hiatus forced by the pandemic, the Association of Comedy Industry Professionals, which oversees the Gala Les Olivier, had exceptionally opened its stage-related categories to shows launched in 2019 and 2020. This explains in particular the citations awarded to less recent works, such as those of Sam Breton and Simon Gouache.
It happens that the prize for the discovery of the year is given to figures who are already somewhat established, observed the host of the ceremony, Katherine Levac. “Not tonight,” replied her friend Sam Breton, who had joined her for a presentation of a corrosive irony, bringing together some of the relatives of the nominees. But it turns out that Matthieu Pepper, discovery of the year 2023, is already, yes, a little established, like many of his predecessors in this category.
The young gentleman, whose series Entre deux sheets had been named humorous TV show of the year in 2022, accepted his first personal Olivier under the emotional gaze of his mother Nicole. A week after the Oscars, it’s undeniable: the current gala season belongs to moms.
But what, exactly, is an olive tree worth? That of the discovery of the year is, in any case, among the most reliable: its only two winners (out of 24) to have had more confidential careers are Crampe en masse (in 2000) and Christopher Williams (in 2005).
With Club Soly’s victory in the category of humorous TV show of the year, and his own in the category of humorous web capsule or sketch of the year, Arnaud Soly was the other main crowned head on Sunday. of a gala during which he shone with Virginie Fortin, in a number mocking the humor of the 1990s and his inexplicable affection for leather pants.
Justine Philie, for her part, provoked one of the strongest reactions by disclosing the eviction of a resident of Big Brothers Celebrities. The author came to seek with her colleague Gabrielle Caron the Olivier of the humor number of the year for The fork of Korine Côté (who may or may not have been kicked out of the reality show of Noovo, on wouldn’t want to steal the surprise from you).
One of the only other women to have had a lucky hand is Stéphanie Vandelac, co-host and moral conscience of Open Couple, comedy podcast without script of the year, which she pilots with her husband, Thomas Levac. As you read this, the lovebirds may still be “French.”
Note also that Odrée Rousseau will see her name engraved in a figurine of Olivier Guimond, she who co-wrote with François De Grandpré and Charles Beauchesne The worst moments in history, elected for the third time humorous podcast with script of the year.
The entire C’est comme ça que je t’aime team celebrated at the Baby Duck its double victory in the categories of humorous fiction series of the year and text of the year: TV series or humorous web ( delivered in the afternoon to François Létourneau).
Fabien Cloutier, who is presenting this week in Montreal the media premiere of his second show, Délicat, will bring back to the studios of Paul Arcand his trophy for the capsule or humorous radio sketch of the year. “Politicians will see you scared. Me, I would like to pinch your beautiful round cheeks, ”he confessed to the morning of 98.5 FM.
At the National School of Humor, Katherine Levac had set herself the number one goal of becoming friends with Phil Roy. At the end of her first presence at the helm of Olivier, many of her colleagues seemed to consider the host not only as a comrade, but also as the ideal candidate for her own succession.
