“I never thought it could become reality.” Blandine Lehout is living a waking dream. Invited to perform at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Café sur scène (20MinutesTV), the thirty-something confided to presenter Nathalie Dartois that she hadn’t always wanted to do stand-up: “When I was little, I wanted to be a dancer. As I grew up, I discovered that I loved being on stage, and then I realized that I wanted to make people laugh”, she recounted, and so she went on to “study to be a chartered accountant”. “I wanted to do nothing else but be a comedian, but I didn’t dare. So if I’m going to do something I don’t like, I might as well make some money,” she says.
“Feel like crying on the way to class”
“The trigger was this desire to cry on the way to class,” confides the comedian. After working at Club Med for a year, Blandine Lehout said to herself, ‘This is what I want to do’. The period of confinement was, like for many other comedians, a turning point. Then pregnant with her first child, she recounts her anecdotes on social networks, “always with a touch of humor”. After the pandemicshe and her boyfriend Matthieu (whom she never fails to mock on stage) made a complicated choice, one that would change everything and launch the comedian: “I believe in you more than in me, so I’m giving you my show,” her husband told her.
And while expecting her second child, Blandine writes. Your mother’s lifeher first one-woman show, can be seen at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm, and then on tour throughout France.
To find out more about Blandine Lehout, go to the show video at the top of this article. And to see more Café on stageit’s on 20MinutesTV.