Although he has mourned his position as jester on the show Everyone is talking about itDany Turcotte still has after-effects from her last years on the show.
The comedian, who recently appeared on the podcast Open your gametold host Marie-Claude Barrette that he was still traumatized by his experience, particularly by his last few miles, overshadowed by the violence of the comments on social networks, the anguish and the psychological isolation he felt.
“I was nothing but a shadow of myself. I was like a hockey player who doesn’t want to hang up his skates, who thinks he’s going to come out of his lethargy and that he’s going to score goals and do his hat trick,” he told the host.
“The last two years I shouldn’t have done them. Perhaps I should have given up before that, but I was not capable of abandoning the gang and leaving the ship while still at sea,” continued the former madman.
The latter also admitted, during the episode, to having remained in office and having acted as if everything was going well, even though he knew that his limits had been reached and that his health was in danger.
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The host of The little seduction explained that the advent of social networks, the pandemic and the change in tone of the show had contributed to his discomfort, but also to creating a crescendo of anxiety which began on Wednesday and continued until the end of the show on Sunday evening.
“I was always afraid. I was terrified,” he said, referring to his fear of being lynched on social networks after each show.
“I wasn’t any good anymore. I was no longer the right person to do the job. […] I no longer dared to speak because I had been so damaged by social networks. I censored myself. I twisted my tongue 22 times before speaking, which is absolutely not good humor. It kills the punch,” he added.
“Every time I said what, it was uncomfortable. There was no audience to laugh, my role no longer existed […] I haven’t rewatched any episodes because I think my trauma is very great and I think seeing myself there again, sitting on the bench, would probably make me very uncomfortable. So, I think that there, I had reached the psychological limit of what I could achieve.
When leaving Everyone is talking about itthe comedian says he freed himself from enormous pressure and managed to regain self-confidence thanks to the writing of his biography and his novels.
Dany Turcotte was the jester of the king of Everyone is talking about it for 17 years.
