“My childhood is filled with melancholy”: Panayotis Pascot humorously recounts his years of accordionism (VIDEO)

Panayotis Pascot started his career very young. Although he is indeed only 17 years old, he combines his undergraduate scientific studies and a weekly column in Le Petit Journal on Canal+. In 2016, when Yann Barthès left Canal+ for TMC and his new show, Quotidien, Panayotis Pascot followed suit. A year later, the young man left the show to devote himself to his passion, humor.

From October 2019, she performs her first solo on stage, Almost first at Grand Point-Virgule, then at the Antoine theater in March 2020.

The prodigy, now 24, was the guest of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine tonight at Cà vous, France 5. Columnist Patrick Cohen’s opportunity to uncover a few dossiers. The supporting photo showed a young Panayotis, the latter with an accordion in his arms. It’s an instrument he’s been playing somewhat reluctantly for 6 years. He says: “It was a special time. Actually, I did it to please my father. I have a father who likes to make us responsible very quickly. I said, ‘I’m going to make an adult instrument myself. He humorously adds: “It was silly because I’ve never seen an adult play the accordion. An adult with a fixed address.”

He adds, laughing from the table, “So I spent a lot of time playing the accordion, even though I didn’t really like it. This added melancholy to my childhood”. With the humor that characterizes her, she explains playfully: “Amélie Poulain, I know the soundtrack by heart! And the day a war ends, I can come and celebrate with a little guinget”.

In his first one-man show, Nearly, newly released on Netflix, comedian and actor Panayotis Pascot explores his childhood, his complicated relationship with love, his roommate, his existential crises, and most of all, his relationship that wasn’t easy. with his family and especially his father, a writer and former politician.