This is a meeting that nostalgic for the 90s cannot miss. This Friday, May 2 at 9:10 pm, RMC Story broadcasts a special premium of “Le Bigdil”, which returns to the golden age of the show, with former candidates and emblematic faces of the program, which marked a whole generation of viewers between 1998 and 2004 on TF1. For this event show, Vincent Lagaf ‘found several of his former playmates. And there is no question of doing things in half: the host even came out his legendary flashy pink costume to stick to the crazy atmosphere of the time.
Doctor, humorist, pharmacist, writer or painter …
Among the emblematic faces gathered for this tribute evening, we find Dj Aspé, Loulou, but also and above all Ramuncho, unforgettable acolyte with red suspenders and the Peruvian cap. With his real name Hervé Budin, Ramuncho embodied this whimsical character between 1998 and 2003. With his inimitable speech and his introductory sketches truffled with puns, he opened each blind test with enthusiasm, punctuating his interventions with his war cry: “Word game, Ramuncho!“
In the columns of “Télé-Loisirs”, Hervé Budin returns to the birth of this character: “Throughout these years, the character has remained identical in his character and in his mind. In the show where I created him, he was a character who actually played musical instruments, but it was especially in the context of a sketch where there was text. “The old acolyte of Lagaf ‘welcomes to have been able to impose his style: “In ‘Le Bigdil’, I was given Carte Blanche and I was able to impose the fact of having a sketch based on word games. I ended up saying ‘word games, ramuncho!’, A sentence that was said spontaneously on the set and which has remained. Even thing for ‘hello everyone’. I adapted this character for TV.“His departure from the program, in 2003, a year before the end of the program on TF1, he claims to have chosen him: “It was a decision on my part because I had gone around my character after five years and I wanted to get out of time to do something else, especially writing. It was done naturally.“
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His return to the special show did not fail to surprise even his former colleagues. “”Vincent was surprised to find the same expressions at home as twenty-seven years ago“, Smiles Hervé Budin.”I had been given carte blanche and I didn’t want to make music.“Moving wink for the fans, the return of Ramuncho on the” Bigdil “set will also have been a highlight of reunion for the whole band.”When I found the team, the welcome was great, both the public and the technical staff. To find them was a real happiness“Said Hervé Budin said in a report disseminated by INA.
But what becomes of Ramuncho today? Doctor by training, Hervé Budin had a turning point in his career after a concern for health. “”I could not exercise my profession for 8 months. During these 8 months, we thought with my wife, who is a pharmacist, to open a pharmacy (…) and this adventure lasted 17 years. It was a great success“He confides to the INA. If he moves away from the small screen, he never really leaves him:”I continued to write, for TV or radio shows. ‘Two hours before the Colosseum’ on France 2, Reichmann programs, and ‘our dear neighbors’ on TF1.“Always so creative, he even published a novel entitled” L’Homme a barefoot “, “In order to make it a film. It’s really a dream that is close to my heart“.
Now 65 years old, Hervé Budin engages in a new passion: painting. “”It’s fabulous. It’s the very beginning, and I’m delighted because I have fun“He enthusiastically declares in the INA report. And the artistic succession seems assured. His 32-year-old Roman son, accompanied her behind the scenes. Vincent Lagaf ‘also told”Télé-Loisirs “ : “Ramuncho is a guy who studied, he is someone brilliant. He went around the show business and he saw the kind of environment it was. He worked in pharmacies and now he is a nice retiree. I wanted to convince him to come back at least once. It was not hot to put a ridiculous costume at 65 years old and hello everyone ‘but he accepted. He even came behind the scenes with his son who is a very talented pianist and whom I will take for future Blind-Tests from the Bigdil!“
