Europe faces comedy crisis as final season of Parlement airs
TV series Parlement follows young parliamentary assistant Samy and his comedy capers working in the European Parliament post-Brexit. Ahead of its final season, co-writer Maxime Calligero shares his take on the sharp, warm humour that made the show an award winning cross-cultural hit.
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TV series Parlement follows young parliamentary assistant Samy and his comedy capers working in the European Parliament post-Brexit. Ahead of its final season, co-writer Maxime Calligero shares his take on the sharp, warm humour that made the show an award winning cross-cultural hit.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/07/europe-faces-comedy-crisis-as-final-season-of-parlement-airs
Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.
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00:00This is a big building, in form of caprices of the gods.
00:16Is it on the top?
00:17Yes, I have even seen the ground here.
00:30For those who have history, there must be conflict.
00:33People want the same thing, they fight themselves.
00:36However, Europe, for historical reasons,
00:39is built at the end of the conflict.
00:41European institutions have been created to make a compromise.
00:44What is a weakness of the European Union,
00:47that is, its complexity,
00:49several institutions,
00:51many political parties,
00:53different nationalities,
00:55everything is made in 24 languages,
00:57on a long tone.
00:58This complexity,
01:00which is a weakness of the European Union,
01:02when we want to make it understand,
01:04suddenly, it will become a force.
01:06Because the complexity is always a good actor of comedy.
01:10The amendment 45, naturally,
01:12the amendment 13,
01:13did not initially hold on the paragraph 13.
01:15Yes, yes.
01:16Noé Debré, he had this feeling
01:27that there was a story to tell.
01:28I, who worked for a long time in the European Union,
01:31I know the walls of European compromises,
01:34that is,
01:35the coups-bats,
01:36the tractations,
01:37the conflicts there can be between judges,
01:39between Etats-members.
01:40And so,
01:41our job of scenarist,
01:42it has been to make up to the surface
01:45the conflict that the public never sees,
01:48but that is well in the European institutions,
01:50and to make a matter of fiction.
01:52Noé,
02:11me and my co-auteurs,
02:13we are very influenced by this vein-lÃ
02:16of American and English fiction.
02:19In the Anglo-Saxon world,
02:21it's much more accepted
02:23that we can laugh
02:24in a human way,
02:25not just through the farce,
02:27but that we can laugh from politics.
02:29New friends,
02:30I'm so happy,
02:31what a day, huh?
02:32Could you give me back my beer?
02:33It's just...
02:35She's trying to kill my mother,
02:36that's it.
02:37I've come with special instructions
02:38from Ingeborg for the presentation.
02:41What are you doing?
02:42I'm giving you special instructions
02:43for I-Contin.
02:44Ingeborg,
02:45so you get a good chance.
02:47It's very, very hard to laugh
02:48at the time of Trump,
02:50first of all,
02:51because he's more burlesque
02:52than what we can imagine.
02:53And I feel like
02:55in series and in politics,
02:56there are cycles
02:57when the reality is too absurd.
02:59All of a sudden,
03:00we want to go back to the series
03:02that speak serious.
03:03And when the reality is too serious,
03:05we want to go into fiction
03:07something more burlesque
03:09or more léger.
03:10I feel like
03:11in Parliament,
03:12we're more on the side of the comedy
03:13or the satire
03:14because we have a lot of tenderness
03:16for our characters.
03:17There are few characters
03:18that we don't save.
03:19We don't try to censor
03:21the European Union
03:22because people are not interested
03:23in that.
03:24But we don't try to make a critique.
03:25I feel like
03:26we try to laugh
03:27with the European Union.
03:30Not to laugh with her,
03:31but to laugh with her.
03:32And you've been by
03:34from the show.
03:35I feel like
03:36I've just said
03:37a lot of problems
03:38about the yester
03:40that the European Union
03:42will be dealing with
03:43and should be
03:43more prolific.
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