Julien Lacroix goes on tour The comedians return splits the

Julien Lacroix goes on tour: The comedian’s return splits the center

Julien Lacroix is ​​attempting a real comeback on stage. A month and a half after playing in a bar in Montreal, the “damn” comedian has just announced about fifteen dates at various bars and venues around the province. However, this consideration is received very lukewarmly by the people in the community.

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“I don’t think the industry is ready now. I think it’s fast. […] Julien has removed the plaster and it’s no longer bleeding. But it’s not cured. »

At the end of the line, Feedback Agency’s Marie-Ève ​​Lapierre mentioned to the Journal what several other speakers have told us.

Two and a half years after being the subject of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, a report by Le Devoir says Julien Lacroix seems ready to step back into the limelight more seriously.

Last November, a report by La Presse discredited several pieces of information reported by Le Devoir and gave the floor to certain alleged victims of the comedian who wanted to reconsider their original testimony.

Lacroix, who had by then completely retired from public life, then quietly began testing the water temperature. In December he performed in the presence of a security guard on two evenings in a bar in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. And last month he gave his first television interview since 2020’s “Events”.

On the streets of Quebec

This week, the comedian continues his momentum by announcing new show dates. It all begins tomorrow night at Brasserie Côte-St-Paul in Southwest Montreal. All hundred tickets for sale are sold out.

Julien Lacroix will also play Chez Maurice, a bar in Saint-Lazare known for its humor and music, which can seat up to 500 people. He will also perform in Lévis, Magog, Saint-Eustache, Granby and Repentigny in bars or halls outside the official distribution circles.

“I’m starting to hit the streets of Quebec for Q&A nights that mix stand-up, improvisation, humor and confessions,” the comedian wrote on a mailing list. It’s very experimental, but I admit that it gives me great pleasure to get back on stage and meet you. In the best of all worlds, I could pick up enough good supplies to possibly bring you a second one-man show in good and proper shape. »

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Contacted by Le Journal, Julien Lacroix preferred not to give an interview. However, he told us that he was working alone to plan this tour and that several cities were still reluctant to host him.

The uneasiness can also be felt elsewhere in the industry. The manager Sophi Carrier, founder of the agency SPM (Arnaud Soly, Jean-Thomas Jobin), admitted that she is not yet completely clear about the situation. As a shareholder of Terminal Comédie Club, she added that the bar would certainly be in no rush to program the comedian.

At the Bordel Comédie Club, co-owner Charles Deschamps confirmed that Julien Lacroix has been banned from the establishment since the Duty report was published. He doesn’t see that he starts programming it again.

“We do not announce the guests beforehand. So we don’t want this to happen to people who can’t know he’s going to be there. »

“If he had really taken psychological steps, as he claims, he wouldn’t insist on doing the scene because he would have met his need for attention with his therapy,” said one comedian, who requested anonymity. The reason we want to perform and be loved, the artists, is because we have an emptiness inside. »

For or against the return of Julien Lacroix? On the public side, several admirers of the comedian have already made their choice. In the comments below his videos on TikTok, several wrote: “The king is back”.