He arranged to meet us at Terminus Nord, a century-old brasserie opposite the Gare du Nord in Paris. In a few hours, Alex Vizorek takes his train to Lille, where, this evening in December 2025, he plays his new show “Deux et demi” at the comedy club Le Spotlight. The actor and comedian leaves alone, with only a microphone and a stand. Unlike his previous shows, the Belgian actor and comedian does not need other accessories, nor a manager or technician, to project images on stage. At 44, Alex Vizorek is becoming a stand-up comedian and it suits him well. After having successfully taken on the role of a philosophical speaker to make people think through laughter about the multiple facets of art (“Alex Vizorek is a work of art”) or about death (“Ad Vitam”), the multi-card columnist (“RTL Matin”, “La Grande Galerie francophone”, on TV5 Monde, “Télématin”, on France 2) changes register.
“This sort of purity specific to stand-up – I’ll really tell you what happened to me – I didn’t have it. It’s healthy to question yourself. If I don’t do it now, it will be too late.”explains the forty-year-old. Also a way for him not to “cut off from youth”. When he started testing the jokes for his new show, he felt old. “When I asked people at comedy clubs who had seen me on stage, no one raised their hand. For young people, I am a radio and television comedian”he notes. As for the older ones, who have followed him since his beginnings, thanks to his long presence on France Inter (from 2012 to 2023), “They might want to know a little more about [lui] ».
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