For several years, Tanguy Pastureau has been an essential voice of France Inter. But the 50-year-old comedian has also taken the stage. An exciting new life for this artist who was bored in Brittany despite an unusual childhood.
This January 14, TF1 viewers will be able to find Tanguy Pastureau in The Great Competition special Yellow Pieces with Brigitte Macron. The opportunity to discover a little more about the discreet but popular comedian.
Where does Tanguy Pastureau come from?
Tanguy Pastureau was born on January 26, 1974, in Pessac (Gironde). But it was in Brittany that he grew up and lived until the end of his adolescence due to the transfers of his parents, civil servants at La Poste; his mother is also from Hennebont, a small town in Morbihan and his maternal grandfather had a house near Larmor-Plage. He spent his high school in Quimper then studied in Saint-Brieuc where he obtained a BTS Tourism.
“I didn’t dream of being famous but I wanted to have a fun everyday life. I was a child from the Breton countryside so I was very bored. There wasn’t much to do so the imagination quickly kicked in and I think it was those hours of boredom that shaped me. I created a parallel world for myself like many children“, he confided in an interview to the site We Love Comedy.
The surprising childhood of Tanguy Pastureau
Although young Tanguy Pastureau was a little bored in the Breton countryside, he nevertheless grew up with very active parents… “My parents were very political. We were immersed in a militant atmosphere. (…) I also remember that my parents often held anti-nuclear demonstrations and that there was a clown (we only know him in Brittany). He took part in all the far-left militant demonstrations (…) This clown was there to entertain the children who were bored with this type of event. And he filled our heads with far-left texts“, he remembered, amused, to We Love Comedy.
Although he has since moved to Paris for the purposes of his career – he has been on France Inter since 2017 as a columnist for The Original Soundtrack – Tanguy Pastureau regularly returns to his region. “The West is my home base. (…) The ghosts of my past resurface“, he added to West France. And a return to the source? “Why not, one day, come back to live in Brittany, when my activity in Paris will no longer be daily.“
