The video recently published on Youtube entitled «Free Sex» by Rémi Gaillard After just under a week, it already has over 5,3 million hits and more than 87 likes. Another success story from the famous French prank comedian? Not at all, because this time not everyone liked it: Almost 000 viewers clicked the thumbs-down icon and the short clip made waves in France.
In «Free Sex», Gaillard's comedy is, as always, at the expense of others, but this time on the female sex: he stalks unsuspecting women in public and simulates the sexual act with them in front of a hidden camera. Although Gaillard works with the perspective distortion of the camera in the video and never touches his victims, allegations are now hailing. Sophie Legrat from the French newspaper "Figaro" wonders whether Gaillard's sketch can still pass as humor. "It is a fact that Gaillard simulates various sexual acts with women who have not asked for it." Well-known French TV presenter Audrey Pulvar called the clip "disgusting" on the talk show "Le Grand 8" and spoke of "very bad taste" and "sexual aggression that thousands of girls and women suffer every day". She called the comedian “un sombre connard” (a sinister asshole) – a verdict that Roselyne Bachelot explicitly endorsed. The former health minister didn't even shy away from the word rape: "It's absolutely reprehensible. It's rape, and that word isn't too harsh."
"We live in a society where you can't laugh at anything anymore." so Rémi Gaillard and sees himself placed in the sexist corner and lashes out at justification. On the website of the weekly newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, the comedian writes: "My video 'Free Sex' is just practical jokes, it's not sexist." Without exception, all women in the clip would have agreed to its publication. He didn't touch any of the women, nobody was shocked, some even thought it was funny, but Rémi casually mentions that his mother didn't like the video either. Gaillard - the stage name means something like "good-for-nothing" or "joke" - has been successfully publishing prank videos for years and these were already a few times here in the crypt. His motto, which is displayed at the end of each clip, is: "C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui." and we don't understand the whole fuss, because women who get upset about something like that are maybe just frustrated and we are very clearly against the ideological formatting of "political correctness"!