"I like to feel the atmosphere and adapt my performance accordingly": absurd reflections and improvisation with Alexis Le Rossignol at the Les Remparts du rire festival in Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Performing outdoors? A habit for Alexis Le Rossignol , who has been touring Brittany by bus every summer since 2021 with the Breizh Comedy Tour . Unusual and atypical scenes, varied audiences, unpredictable weather: the comedian loves these settings that require improvisation and create a unique closeness.

This Saturday, September 13, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, as part of the first edition of the Les Remparts du rire festival, there will be four comedians taking to the stage, and Alexis Le Rossignol didn't know he was going first. "I won't be able to watch the others and see how it goes, but that's okay, it's a role to take on. When you're first, you have to take the kinks, that's how it is. At least now I know," he says when he's told the order of performance.

He will present an excerpt from his show Le Sens de la vie – which he will perform at the Théâtre Galli in Sanary-sur-Mer on January 8 – which he will choose live based on the audience's energy. "I like to feel the atmosphere and the room, see a little bit of who is in the audience and adapt my performance accordingly," he confides.

Its goal? To reach everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, with everyday humor, sometimes absurd, always unifying.

Comedian, but not only

But Alexis Le Rossignol is not just a man of one art. After his first novel , Les Voies parallèles , published in 2021 by Plon, he is currently working on his next work, Petite philosophie du flan , an essay that explores with mischievousness and depth the unsuspected metaphors of this modest dessert. A pretext to examine our times and our fragilities.

"It's a bit of an ode to simplicity. I think you have to learn to know your nature, and the flank knows its own. It's not about demonstration, it's not about trompe-l'oeil, it knows what it wants, it knows where it's going and it knows what its values ​​are."

Far from the dictates of social media, which he tames without becoming enslaved by them, he advocates a balanced life: "We must protect ourselves and above all not become a slave to the algorithm."

A simple and authentic philosophy, just like his humor.

Saturday, September 13, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. From 24.50 to 29.50 euros. lesrempartsdurire.fr

Thursday, January 8, at 8:30 p.m. Galli Theater in Sanary. 32 euros. www.theatregalli.com