Mathieu Dufour
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Overview
In a freewheeling stand-up performance for a packed Montreal arena, the comedian shares stories about paintball mishaps, McDonald’s misdeeds and more.
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Reviews
3 min readLiving-room jokes in a hockey barn
I have never sat in the Bell Centre. I know the sound of it anyway. A hockey crowd.
The gasp before a slapshot. One voice getting lost among 21,000. When Mathieu Dufour walks that stage in Mathieu Dufour at Bell Centre (2022), the gamble is the room.
Arena comedy has to carry farther. Paintball mishaps and McDonald's disasters, the kind of stories that live in a group chat, now have to fill a building built for something louder.
He does not ease in. He bounds on, like a kid handed the mic at a family wedding. No preamble.
No warm-up act. Spotlight, and a crowd already laughing before the first real joke. When it works he sounds like a friend who is a little funnier than you.
The paintball story is about the indignity more than the bruise. The pain stays in the retelling. Watch the face he makes as he mimics the guy who pulled the trigger.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThey kicked Netflix out of the dressing room.
Ten minutes before Mathieu Dufour walked into a packed Bell Centre, his team put the Los Angeles Netflix people in the hallway and decided what he would say onstage. He told La Presse that changing his method because the night felt huge would have been a mistake. He went out with keyword notes and more than 13, latestnetflix.com contends,000 people in the seats. 
The special Netflix dropped on December 22, 2022 runs 63 minutes. Paintball. Stolen muffins at a Saguenay McDonald's. Whatever else he felt like keeping. Luc Sirois directed. The original title is Mathieu Dufour au Centre Bell. French, with English subtitles if you need them.
The gag sold 6,000 tickets in two hours.
During the first Covid winter he ran Show-rona Virus on Instagram from his kitchen, fifty nights in a row. Guests included Quebec's public health director Horacio Arruda, Howie Mandel, Montreal mayor Valérie Plante, and Véronique Cloutier. He kept joking that he would play the Bell Centre. When Just for Laughs and evenko booked July 23, 2022, the first 6,000 tickets vanished in two hours. They rebuilt the house for 13,000. By the next afternoon another 3,000 were gone. ,
Netflix announced the taping that week. Tara Woodbury, then manager of Canada series, called him "a unique comedic voice and a perfect example of the amazing talent in Quebec." Dufour said he would not believe it until he opened the app. Martin Matte already had a Netflix special. Dufour's is the first Quebec hour the platform itself produced. Just for Laughs TV brought them the idea. ,
Celine, then the muffins.
Journal Métro clocked the night as half Céline concert, half hang with friends. A fake Dufour went down a slide. The real one crossed the floor in sequins and "bottes de chienne." Pierre-Luc Funk danced. Ève Côté roasted him with a T-shirt cannon. Cloutier came out for their Show-rona hit "Poulet cru." He sat at the lip of the stage and thanked a room that, he told La Presse later, felt like a living room even in the high seats. He also wished luck to whoever had to subtitle him into ten languages. ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byS_sxb3NpQ
The official trailer is still on YouTube. Paintball mishaps, McDonald's misdeeds, a packed Montreal arena. Radio-Canada had already named him Covid artist of the year at the 2021 Olivier gala. He was 27. He still decides the set minutes before curtain. , ,
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