“People started to…”: Smaïn attacked in the middle of the show, the audience stunned

While he was performing an excerpt from his last show as part of the Absolutely Hilarious show on Friday, January 24, 2025 near Longjumeau in Essonne, comedian Smaïn was taken to task by a member of the audience. Visibly very annoyed, the comedian did something that stunned the room.

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IN BRIEF

• Smaïn, a well-known comedian, flopped his show in Longjumeau on January 24, 2025, as part of the show Absolutely Hilarious.
• His choice of dark and personal text did not convince the audience, causing departures and tensions with a spectator.
• Smaïn recognizes his mistake and apologizes, admitting that his text was not adapted to the humorous context of the show.

In the world of comedy, no one is sheltered from a flop on stage. Not even an old hand like Smaïn. A true living legend in his field. The comedian was performing near Longjumeau in Essonne on Friday, January 24, 2025. As part of the show baptized Absolutely Hilarious, which brought together artists such as Zize du Panier, Anthony Joubert and Krystoff Fluder.

While 1000 spectators had come to applaud him, Smaïn chose to play an excerpt from his last show which did not convince the crowd present at all. “He started to tell us about his life. That he was a child of the Ddass, an orphan. About his adoption in France, that he had been turned away from the conservatory… It was very dark, very black and not very funny above all. Frankly, we quickly got saturated“, revealed a spectator named Marc in the columns of Parisien.

The comedian called a member of the audience “an imbecile”

“People started leaving the room, sometimes grumbling out loud. There were maybe thirty of them. I could see the two hosts of the show, who were on the side of the stage, were very uncomfortable. They ended up stepping in to end his performance by thanking him. Frankly, I had never experienced a moment like this“, Marc also added.

“You're ruining the atmosphere, Smaïn!“, even said a lady after getting up in the middle of her performance. Visibly irritated, the actor snapped back: “You're a fool“. Which made the atmosphere even more depressing. Afterwards, the comedian suggested to the woman who had taken him to task to go on stage to debate with her.

Smaïn: “I shouldn't have performed in this context, not with this text”

“This is not at all the essence of our show. Having a flop on stage happens to everyone. But we can't insult the audience. Smaïn is an artist we really like, who has already performed for us. He had then reprised his greatest sketches. We don't know why this time, he decided to perform something else, without telling us about it before“, notably indicated one of the producers of the show Absolutely Hilarious, Mathieu Wilhelm.

“I take responsibility, it's my fault. I shouldn't have performed in this context, not with this text. It wasn't my place and I must not continue to participate in this kind of comedy show. I was totally disconnected. My text is quite theatrical, with silences, not in the joke. I apologize to the audience. It's very difficult for an artist to be interrupted like that on stage. So, yes, I called him an idiot, which is not an insult to my eyes, and I invited him to come and debate with me on stage“, Smaïn finally declared about this incident.