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Arnaud Tsamere arrives at the Théâtre Sébastopol in Lille on 20 November 2026. A French comedian who revels in the absurd and the off-kilter, he delights in silences, detours and lines of reasoning that spiral out. On stage he blends stand-up and theatre, sketchy characters and mock‑serious confidences, with a writing style that loves digressions, piling parentheses and sentences that skid before landing on their feet. He sets up seemingly innocuous situations, pushes a detail to the point of the implausible, then sews it all back together with ruthless, twisted logic. Balancing precise text and a taste for improvisation, he plays with the audience, catches a look or a reaction, and turns the moment into comic material. There’s no moral or sweeping speeches—rather a thread he pulls patiently, an idea he stretches until it reaches a tipping point. Come follow his meanders, between rigorous absurdities and small logical catastrophes, in a show made for those who love humor that subverts expectations.