Yvon Deschamps

See also: Deschamps

Yvon Deschamps is a monologuist Québécois which is largely illustrated during the years 1970 and 1980 (but also thereafter) by its social Humor. Having a very broad career being spread out over several years (still active to date), it is one of the first and the largest monologuists and the Québécois humorist, undoubtedly most known of Quebec currently, as much by young people that the very old ones. It has the also appearance of a pioneer who opened the way with several other humorists thereafter.

Biography

First steps

Yvon Deschamps was born the July 31st 1935, with Montreal, in the working district of Saint-Henri. He gives up the school in 1951 after his eleventh year. In 1953, it unearths an employment with the discotheque of the any news Télévision of Radio-Canada, where it discovers the world of the scene and the spectacle. After having attended a part of boulevard putting in the high-speed motorboat Georges Groulx and Denise Furrier, it develops a taste for the Théâtre, and is registered with courses under François Rozet and Paul Buissonneau. It goes up on the boards for the first time in 1957 to the Canadian university Theater, holding the role of Pylade in Andromaque .

In 1959, it takes part in Roulotte , the mobile theater for children of Paul Buissonneau. The following year, he marries Mireille Lachance (which he will divorce in 1967). In 1961, it binds friendship with Claude Léveillée, of which it becomes beater and accordionist. In 1963, it joint in company of Léveillée and several other artists with the Theater of Quat' Under of Buissonneau. In 1964, it obtains its first role with the cinema, in Délivrez you evil of Jean-Claude Lord.

This same year, he forsakes his (short) career of musician, and opens the restaurant the Bakehouse in the Old man-Montreal, then the Saint-Amable in 1966, which will balance both by a bankruptcy later a few years. In meanwhile, Yvon Deschamps there lodges the Boîte with Clemence, a box with song of Clémence Desrochers, and takes part in the reviews the world are funny and Would be yourself which is presented there in 1967. The latter is very particular, since there for the first time the “character” of Yvon Deschamps and his “good boss appears”.

Osstidcho

At the winter 1968, Yvon Deschamps is found without the penny, and accepts an employment in Quat' Under offered by his/her friend Buissonneau. This one has just lost the Sisters-in-law of Michel Tremblay (which will be presented to the Green Rideau in the place), and thus seeks a part to finish the season.

Yvon Deschamps thus proposes with Louise Forestier and Robert Charlebois to assemble a musical review. The result will be the Osstidcho, a spectacle which will revolutionize the Québécois song.

Taking as a starting point the song Alice' S Restoring Arlo Guthrie, Deschamps will write there its first true monolog, the unions, that ossa gives? , in which the naive “character” praises the great generosity and kindness of his owner, whereas it is included/understood well that reality is very different.

Once, my wife had fallen sick urgently, that made that the hospital telephoned. Y' was two hours and quarter; it is the boss who has answers. There comes to see me, there known as: “Your wife fell sick urgently, they returned it. ”

Y known as: “Let us see, does not irritate-toé with Ca! Make as so nothing was, continues your work. If y' has something, I will say it to you. ”

Not any boss who would have done that.

Deschamps will write several other monologs, whose the world are sick , It is extraordinary and Midsummer's Day , like Nigger Black and Pépère , the concerning latter the childhood of the character.

Glory

Following the success of Osstidcho, the career of Yvon Deschamps starts in waterspout. In 1969, it presents the money in first part of the song recital of Marie Laforêt, then happiness with the Theater of Canada, monologs which will constitute its second album. It only goes up on scene for the first time to the Patriot, where it will occur 310 times.

In 1970, it launches its third album, the p' tit Jésus/Le fetus , and gives more than 240 representations to the Théâtre Maisonneuve of the Place of Arts, presenting new monologs like In my court and Cable TV . The following year, 180 other representations will take place, including five weeks with closed counter.

Thereafter, it presents the spectacles One will leave it to the Théâtre Saint-Denis in 1972, and the Women's Liberation to the Patriot in 1973 and 1974, this last with more than 150 recoveries. In 1975, it leaves in round for nine months to present the sacred History .

In 1977, it returns with a new spectacle (without title) which will run during 16 weeks with the Place of Arts and there will be presented to 102 recoveries. It tries an opening in the anglophone market with a round in California, and takes part in three recoveries with the emission of Peter Gzowski with CBC, like with Let' S Save Canada Hour with the same network.

In 1979, it returns again in the Place of Arts, with a spectacle described as very difficult, including the monologs small mental the and handling . Deschamps itself will qualify it “catastrophe” and will remember later: “One ended up saying that I was finished. ”

In 1982, it presents It is all alone which one is most numerous . The public, scalded by the preceding experiment, hesitates at the beginning (“it had there only 5000 tickets of sold one week before the first”), but the reaction is cordial. (“As I was assagi, I sold a room per day, 10 days later. ”) The following year, it occurs during two weeks with the Theater of the Town of Paris.

Noting the birth of a new generation of humorists Québécois (with Ding and Dong at the head), and disturbed by the rise of the political movement of Straightness of the Years 1980, Deschamps estimates that came time to put a term at its career of monologuist. It presents in 1983 its spectacle of good-bye, a voyage in time .

Departure and return

In 1985 begins Saturday from laughing , an emission with Sketch are humorous one hour, diffused saturdays at 19 hours on television of Radio-Canada. Yvon Deschamps is the organizer, and plays for it sides of Normand Chouinard, Normand Brathwaite, Pauline Martin and Michele Deslauriers. He camps there in particular his famous character “teller of stories” of Lebrun Ti-White. 78 episodes and 2 anthologies will be diffused of 1985 with 1989.

The experiment makes it possible Deschamps to remain in the field of humor and to keep the contact with the Québécois public, while relieving it of the pressure which was imposed to him at the time of its spectacles. It benefits from it however for sometimes presenting one of its preceding monologs between two sketches.

Following the success which Saturday of laughing was , Deschamps launches CTYvon , a daily program being held in a studio of television. Half situation comedy, half Parody of television programs, the concept will be accommodated coldly by criticisms and will last only one season (1989 - 1990).

After does eight years of absence on scene, it decide to plunge last once and offers a very new spectacle, U.S. that one from goes away? , that it will present to 140 resumptions in 1992 and 1993, and who will be diffused on television of Radio-Canada.

In 1996, it proceeds to the purchase of the Manoir Rouville-Campbell, place historical with hotel vocation located at Mount-Saint-Hilaire in Montérégie, in Quebec. It made there build the Box in Yvon , a small room of spectacle which can accommodate 300 people, where it will present an amalgam of traditional and new monologs to the customers of its establishment. An album ( Yvon Deschamps with the Manor Rouville-Campbell ) is launched in 1999.

Following the pressures of its close relations and friends (whose Judi Richards and Normand Brathwaite) which estimate that this new material deserves to be divided with a vaster audience, Deschamps turns over to the work. The result, How that, the year 2000? , is presented to closed counter with the Corona Theater in Montreal and the Palais Montcalm with Quebec, before being the subject of a round panquébécoise in 2001 and 2002, then to give place to the album How that, 2000… 2001… 2002? One of the subjects of this spectacle is the fear of several person whom the year 2000 brings the end of the world:

" 50 million Americans thinks that the end of the world will arrive in the year 2000. Hey, that it is worrying. Firstly, because they are 50 million. Secondly, because they are American: if the end of the world does not arrive all alone, there will make it arrive! ":

Since 2000, the Boîte in Yvon presents Québécois humorists regularly in becoming.

In 2001, Deschamps is appointed Chevalier of the National order of Quebec by the Prime Minister of Quebec, Bernard Landry.

It Maria an Anglophone , Madam Judi Richards.

Style

The monologs of Yvon Deschamps proceed in a constant Ironie, and often seek to completely express a message contrary to the remarks made by the character. In its first monolog, unions, that ossa does give? , Deschamps camps there an exploited character, typical example of the Inhabitant of Quebec water carrier, but which remains resolutely blind vis-a-vis its own exploitation with the hands of sound “good boss ”.

It adopts a antisyndicalist attitude, saying that it is useless, that the trade unions are against the private company and those which create truths employment, etc It takes an opposite position with that which it really adopts for better showing his nonsense. Subtly, more he speaks about his employer, more one realizes that he is made exploit and which its condition prevents it from seeing it.

At his beginnings, the “character” of Yvon Deschamps (who will never explicitly be named) dissociates himself by his great naivety, which enables him to tackle more delicate subjects, the such Racisme. In Nigger Black , the character tells his surprise when, child, it notes that the “Negros” are in fact only human beings like him, fundamentally neither better nor worse.

others, one did not have Us on our street, there; there remained in the same houses that we others, y' went in the same schools. Eille, even others one did not have us, there, it conceals Negros French canayens. Y did not have one in my class which was called Robert. Heille, moé I had ever seen that a Negro who was called Robert!

Very quickly, Deschamps feels the need to exceed the established terminals. Its character starts to take insurance, his remarks become more pointed.

In 1972, I however decided to write in another way and to make more theatrical experiments. Question of creating various emotions at the public. Faintnesses too. I baffled my musicians. I made pretense have lapseen of five minutes memory. I already made leave the sprinklers (automatic watering-cans) during a spectacle. Until the beginning of the the Eighties, I thought that it was necessary that I go possible further on scene. My public passed by all. It left the room the head between the legs.

In intolerance , it tries a exercise of perilous style: that of going beyond what its public is ready to accept. The monolog starts quietly, after a long introduction and a song ( One will leave it), with the character who puts the public keeps some against the dangers of the intolerance, which is the main cause of the wars, massacres, genocides and other misfortunes of humanity. (The whole, without being able to prevent oneself from delivering to the passage a diatribe against the “queers”.) It quotes in example the genocide with the Biafra, where intolerance made that “million small Negros died of hunger”, although it of offusque step in addition to measurement, those not being, after all, that Negros.

However, hastens it to add, intolerance already killed “out of the true world” -- in fact, of “almost white”, i.e. “Gray pale”, i.e. Jewish .

Six million Jews, which died because Hitler, there made intolerance. Was Y' sick in head, a cursed maniac of insane, tsé? Ah yes, him, him Hitler said to it that the Jews did not sontaient a world like the others worse got dressed badly worse y' there had feather beds worse puaient there worse did not wash worse y' there bought toutte…

I know it Ben who it is true that there are like that. One does not kill the world for that! Jews, you arrange yourself for step not to have in your boutte, it is toutte.

The monolog continues to skid, and the character tells how they drove out an Jewish family of their district when it was adolescent, with great cries of “cursed dirty Jews”. He pushes and pushes until a member of the audience, nauseated of this spectacle, does openly share of his dislike. It is at this time that the character is turned over against him, and shows it to be proof of the same intolerance of which it has put the public keeps some for twenty minutes. He exclaims that one must assemble an army against the intolerant ones, and its speech is buried under the noises of step of a regiment, and the whole is melted finally in a resumption of One will leave it.

Deschamps will acknowledge to have been afraid with each representation of this monolog.

Influence on the Québécois company

Of Maxim Martin with Patrick Huard, all those which make humor on scene today, is claimed of Yvon Deschamps.

Of Martin Matte with Patrick Huard, several young humorists see in Deschamps their spiritual father; that which allowed the emergence of the current comic movement. A little like Michel Tremblay, to the theater, which put at the world a generation of playwrights, Yvon Deschamps gave to Québécois humor its noble letters.

It is with Yvon Deschamps that a new tradition begins from humor in Quebec which remains nowadays with a very great number of artists of all ages. Claude Meunier, one of our more talented humorists, said of Deschamps that he is “a historical character who probably contributed the most to the reflection on the national question. It is a listened character, a social and political eveillor. ” Another humorist of talent, Pierre Légaré wrote “to All the Québécois humorists, without exception, use one or more ways which discovered, traced, or paved Yvon. ”

It is the guy who is able to make a wild satire of our company, which is able to laugh at our through cruel way. Deschamps known as of the hugenesses, and that passes because it is him, because it is known that coming from him, that does not have anything malicious. - Gilles Latulippe

Quotations

Vaut to better be rich and in health that poor and sick (Money)

One does not want the to savwoir one wants the to vwoir ! (Cable TV)

What amounts saying that a true Inhabitant of Quebec, it you a Communist of heart, it you a Socialist of spirit, worse it you a capitalist of pocket. (Pride to be Québécois)

the true Inhabitant of Quebec knows what wants there. Worse what wants there, it you independent Quebec, in strong Canada. (Pride to be Québécois)

It is important happiness, because if you ace not happiness, are-not-heuREUX to you! (Happiness)

Is better to be small that very small…

Discography

  • unions, that ossa gives (1969, Polydor, 542-503)

    • the world is sick

    • It is extraordinary
    • the unions, which ossa gives
    • Pépère
    • Nigger Black
    • Midsummer's Day

  • money… or happiness (1969, Polydor, 542-508)

    • the money

    • happiness

  • the p' tit Jesus/the fetus (1970, Polydor, 2424.017)

    • the p' tit Jesus

    • we Like
    • shame
    • the fetus

  • Cable TV (1971, Polydor, 2424.033)

    • Cable TV

    • In my court
    • I can of it more

  • One will leave it (1972, Polydor, 2424.062)

    • One is content

    • One will leave
    • it intolerance
    • the history Canada
    • I am me

  • sexuality (1972, Polydor, 2424.072)

    • the time of the love

    • It is not right
    • the buttocks
    • sexuality
    • Of the words of love

  • Women's Liberation (1973, Kébec-Disc, KD-700)

    • Hello hello

    • the Women's Liberation
    • has makes me die
    • My wife
    • the niaiseux

  • Bill 22 (1974, Kébec-Disc, KD-701)

    • the life

    • the death of the boss
    • I have the impression
    • the liberté/J' want to be pogné
    • Bill 22

  • sacred History (1975, Kébec-Disc, KD-904)

    • the sacred History

    • creation
    • Once y' had anything
    • the bébittes
    • the small apple
    • positive the
    • the life, it is that

  • Yvon Deschamps in English (1976, Direction, 10001)

    • I don' T know how, I don' T know why

    • Backyard
    • Straws
    • Cable TV
    • Grandpa

  • With the Theater Maisonneuve (1977, Kébec-Disc, 956/957)

    • It is as that the life

    • the pride to be Québécois
    • the old men
    • Oublions
    • violence
    • I like it, ah yes I like it…
    • Faut not to be made
    • of it time
    • Berçeuse to deaden death
    • I want to be a man
    • My mistress
    • Monolog to answer
    • I do not know how I do not know why

  • Yvon Deschamps (1979, Yvon-Deschamps, YD-984)

    • What, a baby!

    • Dad
    • small mental the

  • It is all alone which one is most (1982, Bo-My, BM-562/563)

    • Prolog

    • Rire I
    • the dangers
    • dream I
    • the fear
    • dream II
    • the girls
    • You praise yourself
    • the marriage
    • Seul
    • I believe
    • the idol
    • Chanson for my idol
    • the friendship
    • My friend
    • the religion
    • Gregoregae
    • Rire II

  • Yvon Deschamps (1987, Bo-My, BM-564)

    • comic the

    • the lucky
    • the queers
    • Weak light

  • U.S. that one from goes away? (1993, GSI Music, BMCD 566)

    • Ouverture

    • voluntary the
    • the French language
    • U.S. that one from goes away?
    • teenagers (large the tarla)
    • double names

  • Yvon Deschamps with the Manor Rouville-Campbell (1999, GSI Music, BMCD 567)

    • Politically, one is thus mixed

    • the secondary smoked télévision/La
    • the weather
    • the genocide
    • the sports
    • the friend
    • universalization
    • the family
    • the teenager (improved version)

  • How that, 2000… 2001… 2002? (2003, GSI Music, BMCD 2568)

    • Opening

    • the end of the world
    • the babies-boomers
    • the ethnos groups

  • Judi and Yvon makes a scene (2004, Multimix Média Inc - Rouville-Campbell Manor, YD DVD1)

    • Opening in duet

    • Judi Richards in solo
    • Yvon Deschamps in solo

Catalog of films

as actor

as scenario writer

  • 1972 : P' tit comes quickly

External bonds

  • Biographie

  • Gens who laugh, people who cry (See)
  • Yvon Deschamps in DVD (Cyberpresse)
  • Some tests over Québécois humor
  • GSI Musique or GSI Musique

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