A black crowd for “The Man in Black.” Many personalities have been collected in the Saint-Rhh church in Paris to pay a final tribute to Thierry Ardisson, this Thursday, July 17, 2025. The host of Everyone talks about that and Hi Terrans! He died at the age of 76 this Monday, July 14 for liver cancer.
Thierry Ardisson was the type of man who wanted to master his image until the end. The television man and the former advertiser had even prepared his release, and confident having thought of the smallest detail of his burial. Therefore, nothing was left to the opportunity of this ceremony, starting with the massive brochure.
One last “good night”
“Friends of Thursday night, good night”, we can read on the first page: a reference to its program Everyone talks about that (1998-2006), transmitted in France 2, which was one of the best hours of Thierry Ardisson. This time, it is a last “good night” among all others: its canonical introduction to each of its interview programs.
In this same collection, the different moments of the funeral meet in the “driver”, a widely used term in the audiovisual world to designate the course of a program, recorded live. The term “Magneto” also appears there at the beginning of the funeral brochures program, in reference to the cult expression of the animator “Magneto Serge”. Throughout this ceremony, then alternative readings, the speeches of Audrey Crespo-Mara, companion of Thierry Ardisson, as well as his children, and songs of the pop and rock repertoire.
The latter has also been the subject of a meticulous choice. The piece of Jean-Louis Aubert, Here is, it’s overThe funeral ceremony closes, as it was able to close many of Thierry Ardisson’s programs. The singer and guitarist of the telephone group had also played this acoustic song in 2006 on the set of Hi Terrans!
The song Lazarus David Bowie, from the final album of the British icon, was also very important for the host. Three days after the launch of this single, the latter died of cancer, who had tried to hide. An end that had to mark the host too, very discreet about his illness.
“Magneto Serge”
Wounds to their programs, which had to smile at their nearby collaborators, who came numerous to their funeral. Among them, Laurent Baffie, humorist and faithful acolyte of Thierry Ardisson, the director of Hi Terrans! Serge Khalfon, who inspired “Magneto Serge”, and the DJ of the emissions of Ardisson Philippe Corti. Raquel Garrido, which was a columnic time of Hi Terrans!He was also one of the guests.
The flagship figure of the 1990s, Thierry Ardisson revolutionized the way of doing television programs. All-Paris was pushing in the sets of his interview programs: Midnight baths, Presented from the Waths plate nightclub in Paris, Black glasses for white nights in the palace and Right shore/left bank“, First Cultural Magazine Daily TV in France and especially Everyone talks about that AND Hi Terrans!
Source: BFM TV
