I got interested in someone who doesn’t exist, well not really. He is both a movie character and a Twitter account. It is the character embodied by Jean Rochefort in An elephant cheats a lot, and We will all go to heaven… The Twitter account obviously bears the same name: Etienne Dorsay.
And on this ocean of hateful insults that Twitter has become, an ocean on which cruise liners stuffed with roughly spelling and supertankers filled with anything syntactic, the Etienne Dorsay account is a safe and welcoming anchorage .
Since October 2019, the Etienne Dorsay of Twitter has been mocking the news with a strange dismay, or a rather funny dismay. With the words that Jean Orsay or Etienne Rochefort would have used. For example, during the first confinement: “Today, the Elysee informs us, without wavering for a single second, that school is certainly compulsory, but on a voluntary basis. Just to revel in the creamy paradox of this announcement, it was worth it to eat macaroni in your pajamas for 38 days. ” Another, after Giscard’s death: “The modernity of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing resided paradoxically in his furiously obsolete practice of the accordion, which he harmoniously combined with the unwavering tradition of virtuoso French presidents of the pipe.”
By reading these little bits of disillusioned sentences, we hear Jean Rochefort say them, we see his mustache waving. The creator of the account, who is called Gérald, listens one day, on France Culture, to a series devoted to the actor: “I found it fascinating, he tells us, with his taste for words. Without listening to himself speak, not like a Luchini. Rochefort is all about emphasis and humility “. And the next day, damn, the account is created. Etienne Dorsay then exerts his funny disenchantment on the fundamentalists of the buttocks, Didier Raoult or Kanye West, the Minitel, the Excel tables, the partial reconfinement (a sanitary pantacourt, he specifies) and the little enthusiasm for the vaccines. anti-Covid. “I have just read, Etienne Dorsay post the day before yesterday, Eurovision vaccine results. We are in our usual place, and this consistency in failure is almost moving. “
I have just read the results of the Eurovision vaccine.
We are in our usual place, this constancy in failure is almost moving. pic.twitter.com/haUbyn9yAh– Etienne Dorsay (@E_Dorsay) December 30, 2020
Surprised by the success of the account, the Gérald who hides behind Etienne Dorsay is careful not to publish too much… and sometimes thinks to himself that he is a lucky impostor. 36,076 people, this morning’s count, follow him on Twitter. And almost every day, Etienne Dorsay therefore asks us to let ourselves be left behind in this mad race for current affairs comments, the better to savor its absurd vanity.
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