At the end of the year, Patrick Sébastien publishes “The Carnival of the Ambitious” where he takes down a lot of his enemies on TV and elsewhere. With a few slips that weren’t really controlled…
The book has allowed him to make the media rounds for several days. In any case those who agreed to invite him… Patrick Sébastien published “The Carnival of the Ambitious” with XO editions at the end of November. The 22nd work of this good old television figure, who is celebrating his 50th career on this occasion. An anniversary which will take place far from the cameras, Patrick Sébastien having been ousted from France Télévisions in 2018 and no longer really welcome there.
In this controversial work, the man who still organizes “The smallest cabaret in the world” in the provinces draws portraits of the different personalities (mainly male) he has encountered in his career, from former presidents, like Nicolas Sarkozy, to artists like Patrick Bruel, Jean Dujardin, or even Dany Boon. If many suffer the regular attacks and the gall of the author, little known for his restraint, others are entitled to slightly more flattering portraits.
This is particularly the case for controversial personalities, such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu. One of the highlights of the book is the ex-host’s theory on the DSK affair. Patrick Sébastien claims to have confidential information proving the innocence of the former director of the IMF, once a favorite in the 2012 presidential election. The source he cites in the book? A former common mistress! The proof? On the pillow, she would have portrayed him as a “delicate charmer” who would have “never really been violent”. Enough according to him to evacuate the accusations of rape of Nafissatou Diallo at the Sofitel in New York in 2011…
There are also tirades that we can’t really understand (or perhaps we don’t really want to try to understand): “The best footballers are black and the sexual harassers are white”, for example, says straight away. go a decidedly lively Patrick Sébastien, in the middle of a chapter, without us really knowing where the connection is. Even when the author highlights “a strange parity interesting to analyze”, many will only see a thinly veiled racist implication.
Patrick Sébastien drives the point home by commenting on the Paris Olympics, especially rejoicing at the medals won by “white males with surnames that couldn’t be more Franchouillard”, like Léon Marchand or Antoine Dupont. Conversely, he criticizes Thomas Jolly’s “woke” opening ceremony which would have put those of his “race” “offside”.
His “race”. The word was therefore well written and that is ultimately the whole purpose of this book: to denounce this “dirty time” which is running “for the native Gauls attached to their roots” and to defend “white men over 50 “. Because they are, obviously, the real scapegoats of this society run by “wokism” and “right thinking”. Everything that today seems to provoke the bitterness of a very bitter Patrick Sébastien in this firestorm, undoubtedly reserved for his most loyal fans and a certain public. The others can probably do without it.