Olivier de Benoist « Le droit au bonheur »

Olivier de Benoist headlines Le Scarabée in Riorges on March 20, 2026 with a new solo show in which he turns a passing setback into an excuse to probe happiness and its darker corners. The comedian dissects coupledom, fatherhood and the small everyday acts of cowardice with his knack for turning things on their head, alternating half‑spoken confidences and a logic that derails just enough. For 90 minutes he unfolds an intimate journey written with Paul‑Marie Debrie and Jérôme Daran, where familiar situations rub up against conclusions you wouldn’t always admit to — but that are oddly coherent.

On stage, Olivier de Benoist walks a tightrope between the desire for peace and the call of the open road, posing a moral he keeps flipping like a recurring gag: to live happily, live hidden — and perhaps, he suggests, a little far from his wife and children. It’s a tête‑à‑tête with his comic machinery, made of observation, detours and callbacks, revealing the man behind the jokes as much as the writer behind the situations.