Toulouse: the duo of comedians Melissa and Fred are a hit on YouTube
Mélissa and Fred, a duo of comedians from Toulouse have had great success on YouTube with parody videos. At the beginning of February, they published a sequence on the shots when you are 20 and when you are 40. The video has been viewed more than two million times.
Each time a video is released on YouTube, the Toulouse comedian duo Melissa and Fred multiply views. At the start of February, their two-minute sequence which compares reactions at the age of 20 and 40 has already recorded more than two million views on the platform. Stuffed with clichés, this video is ready to smile on the reactions to 20 years apart. From a cheap red wine aperitif at 20 to tasting evenings twenty years later or even looking for a job when you are young and the desire to leave it in your forties. And it is precisely this transition to quarantine that inspired the two actors from Toulouse. “A few weeks ago, I blew my 40 candles. The day after this evening, when I had a hard time getting over it, the idea of a video was running through my head” , says Melissa.
A few days later, this short sketch is published online and the view counter explodes. “I think it works because it always starts from a personal truth, from an experience”, slips the forties again. A week after this sequence on the cliches between generations, Melissa and Fred publish a video on young couples vs old couples. Again, the success is there with 1.2 million views.
Confinement, a source of inspiration
For the past ten years, this Toulouse duo has been posting videos on topics as varied as parenthood or Toulouse clichés. But since the first confinement, their chain has experienced a notoriety of a new kind. “People were stuck at home, so they massively shared our videos, which allowed us to have fans who followed us regularly,” analyzes the actress. The confinement was also an important source of inspiration for the duo. Sometimes “the perfect family during confinement”, sometimes “homework with the children”.
Apart from their activity on the internet, the two comedians perform from Thursday to Saturday on the boards of “Studio 55”. “Now that the theaters are reopened, we hope that those who follow us on the internet will push the door of a theater to come see us”, smiles the Toulousaine.