“Parents life”. In this section, a personality evokes the joys and setbacks of his daily life with children. Thomas Ngijol, director and humorist, tells how his paternity (two girls, two daughters-in-law) gave meaning to his work.
Interview by Clara Georges
Thomas Ngijol is on tour for his new show, the eye of the tiger. He will be at Olympia, Paris, December 22 and 23. Before meeting him, in a chic bistro of 8 e arrondissement, we imagined the humorist delighted to be on the roads. “In fact, no. I don’t really like to be on tour, find myself alone, far from my family. I have my train. My life as a dad, parent is my balance. Make up to 7 am, panic in the morning, take the girls to school … For my last tour, my first daughter was little. Egoistically, I said to myself, it’s going to be cool, freedom, sleep. From the first evening, I said to myself: “What am I doing here?”. From now on, I get on not to leave more than three or four days in a row. “
His family is a base. He lives with “Five women”: his wife, actress Karole Rocher, the two girls she had previous unions, and their two daughters, Angelina, 8, and Carmen, 4 years old. Thomas Ngijol, 44, says that paternity has transformed his way of working. “In my shows, my children are omnipresent, because all the questions of society are in them. This gives meaning to my job.” In 2021, the humorist made a series of podcasts,” cubs “, in which he is talking about friends, men he likes to Their place as a father: intimate, sensitive and funny episodes, with Teddy Riner, Grand Corps Malade or David Marsais du Palmashow.
The first time you felt Father?
It’s with my daughters-in-law, my wife’s two daughters. When I encountered them, they had to be in 4 e and CM1. It was done without forcing, very slowly. On a daily basis, I gradually developed a feeling of responsibility, of protection towards them. I remember a day when I took one of them to buy shoes. I found myself walking in the city by giving my hand to a little blonde, and it seemed perfectly natural! This is how I felt father. Obviously, they call me by my first name, and if in an anger he came to them to throw me the famous “You’re not my father!”, I would answer them: “Well obviously! You saw my mouth ?! “. But they are the ones who put me in the bath.
Have you ever cried in front of your children?
I cried about thirty seconds after the birth of my first daughter, Angelina. Inexhaustible crying, like a fountain. As if I had kept these tears in me all my life, just for this moment. More recently, I took my daughters to the Booba concert. It was a nice family moment, they were very happy. At one point, he brought his two children on stage for little girl. And there I said to myself: if the hard of the harsh opens his heart to that point, who am I not to chiage? And I cried. At the Booba concert. With my youngest in the arms.
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