00:00Michel Colucci
00:01Yes, that's it
00:01Today, by the way, it's Michel for the guys, huh?
00:03Yes, that's it
00:04Bon
00:05October 48, Montrouge
00:06Yes, 48, we put you on your own
00:08Not it
00:09That's good
00:10Well, it doesn't matter, it's not a problem
00:11Oh no, well
00:12La Roucha's destiny doesn't begin in 1948 in Montrouge, but four years earlier in Paris
00:17It was in a hospital in the 14th Rondissement that little Michel Colucci was born on October 28, 1944
00:26His life didn't start well
00:29It wasn't that he wasn't recognized at birth
00:31He said, no, it wasn't him
00:33No, it wasn't, I assure you
00:35No, no, it wasn't that one
00:36No, that's why I put it there with my bag
00:38Oh no, he's not
00:40Son of Simon Bouillet, known as Monette, a florist and Honorio Colucci, an Italian immigrant who deserted the army and
00:47took refuge in France
00:49My name was Colucci, so it sounded like Colucci and Colucci everywhere
00:54Well, those are names that are a bit difficult to wear at school
00:58In the street, he was forced to put sulfur on his pant legs to prevent the dogs from pissing on
01:03him
01:05His life was hell
01:10The life of young Michel plunged suddenly into tragedy when his father died of fulminating polio when he was only
01:16three years old
01:17His mother was forced to quit her job to take a Michelle and his older sister
01:21She moved across the ring road to Montrouge in Paris' southern suburbs
01:26A working class neighborhood amidst brick housing projects and a destiny lost to poverty
01:31I was an orphan
01:33I lived with my mother and sister in a kitchen room in the suburbs
01:37It was a room, just one room, and Colucci was raised in that room with his mother
01:42Mother
01:43And I sat down on an armchair like this and she said to me, are you sitting on the toilet?
01:48Well, it was actually a chemical toilet, so it was covered with some kind of thing to hide it
01:55The toilet was in the living room because it was a room, period
01:59And Colucci was from there
02:01When I was little at home, the hardest part was the end of the month, especially the last 30 days
02:10He's a fulching person because he always remembered it
02:13He used to send a former poor man
02:16Artichokes are a real poor man's dish
02:18They're the only dish that when you're done eating, you have more on your plate than when you started
02:24Everything makes me laugh
02:25Yes, yes, that's something I adopted once and for all
02:28I didn't ask myself any more questions after that
02:30I asked myself, are we gonna decide to cry at everything?
02:33Or decide to laugh at everything? Or are we gonna decide we don't care at all?
02:37I decided to laugh at everything long before I ever started doing comedy
02:45I decided to laugh at everything
02:47Because that wasn't my story
02:48I agreed this my story
02:49But I decided to laugh at everything
02:49After that, I got upset
02:49I decided to laugh at everything
02:49But first, I didn't try it
02:50I wasause go at everything
02:50I should have anxiety
02:50Because then go things
02:50So seriously, for me
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