Pierre Dac, the father of humor, doubly honored

His name was André Isaac. Few know it. However, everyone knew him by his artist name: Pierre Dac. Nicknamed the « King of the Crazy », the songwriter of Alsatian Jewish origins, revealed at the music hall, was master of the verb, puns, butchers’ slang, satire and parody. He juggled with dexterity between words and puns and took pleasure in transforming everyday situations with absurdity. His songs, his thoughts, his writings in his weekly « L’os à marelle », his duet skits with his partner Francis Blanche made his success and in particular, the heyday of the airwaves of Radio-London.

Today, this father of a new kind of humor, inventor moreover of the Schmilblick, this object with the Yiddish name which is decidedly useless therefore, to everything, is honored.

First of all through the release of a 3 CD box set (EPM / Universal Music) entitled « The best of Pierre Dac » which takes up some of his great standards as a songwriter and radio pioneer, some- some of his great classics and his duet sketches with Francis Blanche and some of the songs performed by headliners of the music hall; in short, everything that made the popularity of Pierre Dac. The journalist and author Jacques Pessis specifies to this end: « Verses which, like him, remain today more than ever in the note. As he writes in his Thoughts, which have become classics, « Nothing that is finished is ever completely finished until all that is started is completely finished. » Hair on the nose. « This set is completed by the complete 9CD MP3 signed Furax in which » The sacred pudding « , » The light which extinguishes « , » The gruyère which kills « and » The Son of Furax « are brought together for the first time.

Second, through an exhibition « Pierre Dac, on the side of elsewhere » at the MahJ, on the initiative of Jacques Pessis, curator of the event. And this is a first! Thanks to more than 250 documents from family archives, film extracts, television and radiographic programs, the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (71, rue du Temple, Paris IIIème) allows for the first time, since October 15, to highlight the richness of the course as well as the inventive and creative work of the undisputed master of contemporary humor. More information on 01 53 01 86 60 and on http://www.mahj.org

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