Yvon Deschamps (born July 31, 1935 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian (Quebecois) author, actor, comedian and producer best known for his monologues. His social-commentary-tinged humour propelled him to prominence in Quebec popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s. July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Flower Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor Linné) Tree Yellow Birch Bird Snowy Owl Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of... In Canadian English, a Québécois (IPA: ) is a native or resident of the province of Quebec, Canada, especially a French-speaking one. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Look up humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Biography

Beginnings

Yvon Deschamps was born in Montreal's working-class Saint-Henri district. He left school in 1951, after Grade 11, and in 1953 found work in the record library at Radio-Canada's new television service. It was at Radio-Canada that Deschamps discovered the performing arts; after attending a boulevard theatre piece starring Georges Groulx and Denise Pelletier, he added a taste for the theatre, and enrolled in acting classes with François Rozet and Paul Buissonneau.[1] He took the stage for the first time in 1957 at the Théâtre universitaire canadien, playing Pylade in a production of Jean Racine'sAndromaque. Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... CBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. ... Boulevard theatre as a theatral aesthetic emerged from the boulevards of Pariss old city. ... François Rozet (1899 – 8 April 1994) was a French Canadian actor. ... Paul Buissonneau (born 24 December 1926, Paris, France) is a leading francophone theatre director. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jean Racine. ...

In 1959, Deschamps was part of La Roulotte, Paul Buissonneau's travelling children's theatre. The following year he married Mireille Lachance (the two would divorce in 1967). In 1961 he became friends with Claude Léveillée, becoming his drummer and accordion player. In 1963 he formed a company with Léveillée and several other artists at Buissonneau's Théâtre de Quat'Sous. In 1964 he played his first film role in Jean-Claude Lord's Délivrez-vous du mal. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

That same year Deschamps left his short career as a musician behind and opened Le Fournil, a restaurant in Old Montreal, followed by Saint-Amable in 1966. Both would end up bankrupt a few years later, but until they did Deschamps hosted his Boîte à Clémence, a boîte à chanson hosted by Clémence Desrochers, participating in the Le monde sont drôles (People are Funny) and Sois toi-même(Be Yourself) shows which opened there in 1967. The latter played a special role in his career, because that is where the Yvon Deschamps "character" and his "good boss" role appeared for the first time. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

L'Osstidcho

In the winter of 1968, finding himself broke, Deschamps took a job at the Quat'Sous offered by his friend Buissonneau. Buissonneau had just lost Michel Tremblay's celebrated play Les Belles-sœurs to the Rideau Vert theatre, and was looking for a play to finish the season with. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Michel Tremblay (born June 25, 1942) is an important Quebec novelist and playwright. ...

Deschamps proposed a musical review to Louise Forestier and Robert Charlebois. The result was the Osstidcho, a show that would revolutionize Quebec song. Inspired by Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, Deschamps made his first real monologue part of the review. In Les unions, qu'ossa donne? (Unions, What are they Good For?), Deschamps played a naïve worker extolling the great generosity and good-heartedness of his boss, making it clear that reality was not quite so rosy: Louise Forestier (born August 10, 1943 at Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada) is a singer, songwriter and actor. ... Robert Charlebois (born June 25, 1944) is a Canadian author, composer, musician, performer and actor. ... A press photo of Arlo Guthrie. ...

One time, my wife falls sick real bad, so the hospital phoned. It was a quarter past two, the boss answers. He comes to see me, and says, "Your wife is in the emergency ward."

He says, "Look, don't make yourself crazy about this! Just make like nothing's happened, keep on working. If anything does happen, I'll let you know."

Not just any boss that would've done that for me!

Deschamps would write a number of other monologues, including Le monde sont malades (People are Crazy), C'est extraordinaire (That's Really Something), and La Saint-Jean (June 24th), as well as Nigger Black and Pépère (Grandpa), both of which went back to the character's childhood.

Glory

Following the success of Osstidcho, Yvon Deschamps' career sky rocketed. In 1969 he presented L'argent (Money) as the opening act for singer Marie Laforêt's tour, then Le bonheur (Happiness) at the Théâtre du Canada; these two monologues would become his second album. Deschamps put on his first solo show at the Patriot, where he would go on to appear some 310 times. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress. ...

In 1970 Deschamps released his third album, Le p'tit Jésus/Le fœtus (Baby Jesus/The Foetus) and appeared more than 240 times at the Place des Arts's Théâtre Maisonneuve, where he launched monologues like Dans ma cour (In My Yard) and Cable TV. The following year another 180 performances were held, including five consecutive weeks sold out. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... View of the Place des Arts esplanade. ...

Deschamps presented his shows On va s'en sortir (We'll Manage) at the Théâtre Saint-Denis in 1972 and La libération de la femme (Women's Lib) at the Patriote in 1973 and 1974, giving some 150 performances of the altter show. In 1975, he toured for nine months to put on L'histoire sainte (History of the Sacred). 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

In 1977, Deschamps returned with a new, untitled show which would headline for 16 weeks at the Place des Arts and show 102 times over that period. He attempted to pierce the English-language market with a California tour, and appeared three times on Peter Gzowski's popular CBC programme (one of these appearances is archived in the first volume of his DVD collection), further appearing on the CBC's Let's Save Canada Hour. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... CBC promotional image of Peter Gzowski, circa 2000 Peter Gzowski, CC , LL.D , D.Litt (July 13, 1934 - January 24, 2002) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show Morningside. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...

In 1979, he headed back yet again to the Place des Arts, with a difficult show which included his La petite mentale (The Crazy Lady) and La manipulation monologues. Deschamps himself called the show a "catastrophy" and would later recall that "they ended up writing off my career." But in 1982 Deschamps came back with C'est tout seul qu'on est l'plus nombreux (The Biggest Crowd is Alone). Although the public hesitated at first -- only 5000 tickets had sold a week before the show opened -- the show was well-received; as Deschamps put it, "I got wise and, ten days later, began selling out a room a day." This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The following year Deschamps headlined two weeks at the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris. It would be the swan song of the most fruitful period of his career: seeing a new generation of Québécois comedians like Ding et Dong growing up around him, and troubled by what he saw as a political correctness movement in the 1980s, Deschamps chose 1983 to bow out as a monologuist with his farewell show, Un voyage dans le temps (A Journey Through Time). Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Departure and Return

In 1985 Samedi de rire (Saturday Laughs) debuted, a one-hour collection of television comedy skits, carried on Saturday nights at 7 p.m. on Radio-Canada. Yvon Deschamps was the host, and appeared alongside Normand Chouinard, Normand Brathwaite, Pauline Martin and Michèle Deslauriers. Among the characters he developed there was the famous storyteller persona of Ti-Blanc Lebrun. Seventy-eight episodes and two "best of" recaps would air between 1985 and 1989. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Samedi de rire was a sketch comedy show in Quebec that aired from 1985 to 1989. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The experience allowed Deschamps to keep a hand in the comedy business and stay in touch with Quebec audiences, but with a much lower level of stress than his one-man shows had involved. That said, he did take advantage of the situatiojn to present occasional monologues in between two skits. Deschamps then launched CTYvon (ITSYvon) on the heels of Samedi de rire's success. CTVon was a daily program filmed in a television studio, half sitcom and half parody of other television programs. But the show flopped, airing to critical disapproval for just a single season (1989-1990). A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

After eight years away from the stage, Deschamps decided to wade back in one last time with a new show, U.S. qu'on s'en va? (What's Next for U.S.?), performed live 140 times in 1992 and 1993, and broadcast on Radio-Canada television. Following the show's success he moved into semi-retirement, purchasing in 1996 the Manoir Rouville-Campbell, a historic hotel property in Mont-Saint-Hilaire in Quebec's Montérégie region, and built a small nightclub there called Boîte à Yvon (Yvon's Club) in which he would perform some of his classic and more recent material to the 300-capacity crowd. An album, Yvon Deschamps au Manoir Rouville-Campbell, was issued in 1999. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Mont-Saint-Hilaire is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. ... Map (2001) of the Regional County Municipalities making up Montérégie Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwestern corner of Quebec. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

The semi-retirement did not last, either, however. Following pressure from cohntemporaries and friends, such as Judi Richard and Normand Brathwaite, who were adamant that his newer material should be shared with larger audiences, Deschamps got back to work. The result, Comment ça, 2000? (2000 Already?), was performed in front of sold-out houses at Montreal's Théâtre Corona and Quebec City's Palais Montcalm, then hit the road for a cross-Quebec tour in 2001 and 2002, culminating in the Comment ca, 2000... 2001... 2002? Motto : « Don de Dieu feray valoir Â» (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Quebec Official logo Country  Canada Province Québec Agglomeration Quebec City Statute of the city Capitale-Nationale Administrative Region Capitale-Nationale Constitution date 1833 Geographical code 24 23027 Founder Foundation... This article is about the year 2001. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Since 2000, the Boîte à Yvon has regularly presented emerging Quebec comedians. In 2001 Deschamps was named a Knight of the National Order of Quebec by Quebec's premier, Bernard Landry.[2] This article is about the year 2000. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... The National Order of Quebec (French: Ordre national du Québec) is an order of merit bestowed by the government of Quebec, Canada. ... Jean-Bernard Landry, born March 9, 1937 in Saint-Jacques, Quebec, (near Joliette), is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, past Premier of Quebec, Canada, (2001–2003), former leader of the Opposition (2003–2005) and former leader of the Parti Québécois (2001–2005). ...

Style

Yvon Deschamps' monologues were known for their unrelenting irony, and often buried a message that was completely opposite to what the stage character was saying literally. For Deschamps' first monologue, Les unions, qu'ossa donne?, he created an exploited worker who incarnated the Québécois self-image of a historic past as water-carriers and hewers of wood, and who remained resolutely blind to his exploitation at the hands of his "good" boss. Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history). ...

In the beginning, Yvon Deschamps' never-named "character" was distinguished by his spectacular naïvete, which served as a vehicle for Deschamps to tackle delicate subjects such as racism. In Nigger Black, for instance, the character recalled boyhood surprise upon learning that "Nègres" were no more nor less than human beings like him, neither better nor worse: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

Us, we had some on our street; they lived in the same houses we did, went to the same schools. Hey, even some of us had some, there were French-Canadian "nègres". One of 'em was in my class, his name was Robert. Hey, that was the first time I'd seen a "nègre" named Robert!

But, very quickly, Deschamps felt the need to go further outside the usual boundaries. His character began to be more self-assured, his remarks more pointed:

In 1972, I decided to write differently and to stage my theatrical shows. It was all about evoking different emotions in the audiences. Discomfort, too. I yelled at my musicians. I pretended to forget things for five minutes. I once even had the sprinklers go off during a show. Until the beginning of the 1980s, I figured I had to go as far as possible in my live shows. My audiences had seen everything. They left the show with their heads between their legs.

In L'intolérance, Deschamps tried something riskier: going beyond what his audience could possibly accept. The monologue started quietly, after a long introduction and a song (On va s'en sortir, We'll Manage), with the character warning the public against the dangers of intolerance, which had caused wars, massacres, genocides and other human follies -- all that, punctuated with a diatribe against "faggots". Deschamps' character cited as an example the Biafra genocide, where intolerance had resulted in "millions of little niggers dying of hunger", adding that it didn't bother him too much since, after all, these were only "niggers". At the same time, Deschamps would hasten to add, intolerance had also killed "real people" -- the "almost Whites", which were the "Light Greys", by which he meant Jews. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... National motto: Peace, Unity, Freedom Official language Igbo, English Capital Enugu Largest city Port Harcourt Head of State Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Chief of General Staff (VP) Philip Effiong Area ?- Total ?- % water Population;- Total 13,500,000 (1967) Currency Biafran pound (BIAP) Created May 30, 1967 Dissolved January 15, 1970 National...

Six million Jews died because Hitler, he did some of that intolerance. He was nuts, a goddamn maniac, you know? Yeah, that guy, Hitler, he said that the Jews didn't smell right or dress right, and they had those braids, and they stunk and they didn't wash and they bought everything...

I happen to know they're like that, but you can't kill them for that! Jews, you just make sure you don't have any around you have to deal with, that's all.

The monologue continued to unwind, and the character would explain how he had kicked a Jewish family out of their neighbourhood as a teenager, punctuated by excalamations of "damn dirty Jews". He would push and push until a member of the audience showed some sign of disgust. The character would at that point turn to the audience member and accuse him of showing the same intolerance he'd been warning the public about for the last twenty minutes. Deschamps' character would add that an army should really be mounted against the intolerants, ending the monologue with the sounds of a regiment marching, fading into a reprise of the opening song, On va s'en sortir.

Deschamps always admitted being a little bit frightened when he performed this monologue.

Influence on Quebec Society

"From Maxime Martin to Patrick Huard, all of today's live comedians owe Yvon Deschamps."[3]

"From Martin Matte to Patrick Huard, many young comedians today see Deschamps as their spiritual father, the man who opened the doors to today's comedy movement. A little bit like Michel Tremblay in the theatre, who brought a new generation of playwrights into the world, Yvon Deschmps gave Quebec comedy its stamp of approval."[4]

C'est avec Yvon Deschamps que débute une nouvelle tradition d'humour au Québec qui se perpétue de nos jours avec un très grand nombre d'artistes de tous âges. Claude Meunier, un de nos plus talentueux humoristes, a dit de Deschamps qu'il est « un personnage historique qui a probablement le plus contribué à la réflexion sur la question nationale. C'est un personnage écouté, un éveilleur social et politique. » Un autre humoriste de talent, Pierre Légaré a écrit « Tous les humoristes québécois, sans exception, utilisent une ou plusieurs voies qu'a découvertes, tracées, ou pavées Yvon. » [5]

"He's a guy who could paint a wicked satirical portrait of our society, then laugh cruelly about our shortcomings. Deschamps said some outrageous things, and they went over because it was him, and we knew that coming from him, there was nothing mean or cruel about it." — Gilles Latulippe

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Quotes

• "The real Québécois knows what he's after, and that's an independent Quebec in a strong Canada" ([...] le vrai Québécois sait qu'est-ce qu'y veut. Pis qu'est-ce qu'y veut, c't'un Québec indépendant, dans un Canada fort), La fierté d'être Québécois

• "Better to be healthy and wealthy than penniless and sick" (Vaut mieux être riche et en santé que pauvre et malade), L'Argent

• "We don' wanna know it, we wanna SEE it!" (On veut pas l'sawoère [...] on weut le woère!), Cable TV

• "Which means that a real Québécois has a communist's heart, a socialist's brain, and a capitalist's pockets (Ce qui revient à dire qu'un vrai Québécois, c't'un communiste de cœur, c't'un socialiste d'esprit, pis c't'un capitaliste de poche), La fierté d'être Québécois

• "Happiness is important, because without happiness, you are NOT happy!" (C'est important le bonheur, parce que si t'as pas le bonheur, t'es-pas-heuREUX!), Le Bonheur

Albums

• Les unions, qu'ossa donne (1969, Polydor, 542-503)
  • Le monde sont malades
  • C'est extraordinaire
  • Les unions, qu'ossa donne
  • Pépère
  • Nigger Black
  • La Saint-Jean
• L'argent... ou le bonheur (1969, Polydor, 542-508)
  • L'argent
  • Le bonheur
• Le p'tit Jésus / Le fœtus (1970, Polydor, 2424.017)
  • Le p'tit Jésus
  • Aimons-nous
  • La honte
  • Le fœtus
• Cable TV (1971, Polydor, 2424.033)
  • Cable TV
  • Dans ma cour
  • J'en peux plus
• On va s'en sortir (1972, Polydor, 2424.062)
  • On est content
  • On va s'en sortir
  • L'intolérance
  • L'histoire du Canada
  • Je suis moi
• La sexualité (1972, Polydor, 2424.072)
  • Le temps de l'amour
  • C'est pas juste
  • Les fesses
  • La sexualité
  • Des mots d'amour
• La libération de la femme (1973, Kébec-Disc, KD-700)
  • Allô salut
  • La libération de la femme
  • A m'fait mourir
  • Ma femme
  • Les niaiseux
• Bill 22 (1974, Kébec-Disc, KD-701)
  • La vie
  • La mort du boss
  • J'ai l'impression
  • La liberté/J'veux être pogné
  • Bill 22
• L'histoire sainte (1975, Kébec-Disc, KD-904)
  • L'histoire sainte
  • La création
  • Une fois y'avait rien
  • Les bébittes
  • La petite pomme
  • Le positif
  • La vie, c'est ça
• Yvon Deschamps en anglais (1976, Direction, 10001)
  • I don't know how, I don't know why
  • Backyard
  • Fetus
  • Cable TV
  • Grandpa
• Au Théâtre Maisonneuve (1977, Kébec-Disc, 956/957)
  • C'est comme ça la vie
  • La fierté d'être Québécois
  • Les vieux
  • Oublions
  • La violence
  • Je l'aime, ah oui je l'aime...
  • Faut pas s'en faire
  • Le temps
  • Berçeuse pour endormir la mort
  • J'veux être un homme
  • Ma maîtresse
  • Monologue à répondre
  • J'sais pas comment j'sais pas pourquoi
• Yvon Deschamps (1979, Yvon-Deschamps, YD-984)
  • Quoi, un bébé!
  • Papa
  • La petite mentale
• C'est tout seul qu'on est l'plus nombreux (1982, Bo-Mon, BM-562/563)
  • Prologue
  • Rire I
  • Les dangers
  • Le rêve I
  • La peur
  • Le rêve II
  • Les filles
  • Tu te vantes
  • Le mariage
  • Seul
  • Je crois
  • L'idole
  • Chanson pour mon idole
  • L'amitié
  • Mon ami
  • La religion
  • Gregoregae
  • Rire II
• Yvon Deschamps (1987, Bo-Mon, BM-564)
  • Le comique
  • Le chanceux
  • Les tapettes
  • Débile léger
• U.S. qu'on s'en va? (1993, GSI Musique, BMCD 566)
  • Ouverture
  • Les bénévoles
  • La langue française
  • U.S. qu'on s'en va?
  • Les adolescents (Le grand tarla)
  • Les noms doubles
• Yvon Deschamps au Manoir Rouville-Campbell (1999, GSI Musique, BMCD 567)
  • Politiquement, on est donc mélangés
  • La télévision/La fumée secondaire
  • La météo
  • Le génocide
  • Les sports
  • L'ami
  • La mondialisation
  • La famille
  • L'ado (version améliorée)
• Comment ça, 2000... 2001... 2002? (2003, GSI Musique, BMCD 2568)
  • Ouverture
  • La fin du monde
  • Les baby-boomers
  • Les ethnies

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External links

• (French) Biographie
• (French) Gens qui rient, gens qui pleurent (Voir)
• (French) Yvon Deschamps en DVD (Cyberpresse)
• (French) Quelques essais sur l'humour québécois

Bibliography

• PAQUETTE, Claude, Yvon Deschamps, un aventurier fragile, Québec/Amérique, 1997, 344 p. [6]
• DESCHAMPS, Yvon, Tout Deschamps, Lanctôt Éditeur, 1998, 543 p. [7]