Schiappa and the “threesomes” price of political humor 2021 – The HuffPost

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POLITICS – When Minister Marlène Schiappa defended her bill aimed at fighting against polygamy, she had seen fit to clarify: “We are not going to forbid threesomes”. A reflection that earned him the Grand Prize for Political Humor 2021, delivered Tuesday, December 7.

The jury for the “Press Club, humor and politics” prize, chaired by Olivier de Lagarde, chose this clarification provided by the Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship on Radio J among 16 “little phrases” competing for the title of the funniest word of the year in politics.

A Minister Delegate who came to receive her prize in person and who congratulated herself on having been rewarded. “Delighted to receive this evening the Humor & Politics Grand Prize awarded by the Press Club of France and to deliver a speech on freedoms”, she reacted on Twitter. And to add: “Laughing in politics is also a guarantee of democracy!”

Delighted to receive this evening the Humor & Politics Grand Prize awarded by the Press Club de France and to deliver a speech on freedoms ??
Thank you. Laughing in politics is also a guarantee of democracy! pic.twitter.com/S95Wg0OCpP

– ?? MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) December 7, 2021

Dupont-Aignan, Holland, Pulvar and Macron also rewarded

Beyond this main award, many other humorous prizes were also awarded on Tuesday. Among them, the Jury Prize was awarded to the sovereignist presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan for his declaration: “I am strong among people who are on the verge of voting”.

The “Miot” Game Prize (in tribute to Jean Miot, the creator of the prize) and the Special Jury Prize are awarded to Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister: “When the right grows harder, it shrinks”. The Encouragement Prize was awarded to Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo: “What is happening with extreme votes and abstention is the concrete translation of the effects of global warming”.

The Recidivism Prize was sent to ex-president François Hollande: “Michel Barnier has a prince charming side for retirement homes”. The Marcel Duchamp Prize was awarded to the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot: “As my grandfather said, it is better to have people in your tent who pee outside than the other way around”.

Emmanuel Macron was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize, for his response to a farmer during her visit to a fair in Provence: “The pension reform, we will do that when we drop the masks”. The prize for the revelation of the year was awarded to Sandrine Rousseau, candidate for the ecological primary: “I live with a deconstructed man and I am super happy”.

Finally, the Internet Users’ Prize was awarded, ex-æquo, to Prime Minister Jean Castex – “The less we fuel self-propelled controversies, the better we are” – and to LR senator from Paris Pierre Charon: “Xavier Bertrand wanted to be hypersonic , it is subsonic, it has not crossed the sound barrier ”.

The “Press club, humor and politics” prize had been won in 2019 by Édouard Philippe. When asked whether it all went back to Matignon, the Prime Minister at the time replied: “No, just the shit”. Due to the epidemic of covid-19, the prize was not awarded in 2020.

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