essential With his outspokenness and his accent from the Southwest, the Tarnais Vincent Moscato has become the standard holder of the department every day for almost 20 years on RMC. Now on television, but also on boards and cinema, the Gaillacois at the head of the Super Moscato Show leads a life to 100 an hour. Portrait.
He arrived in his Gaillac hotel at the end of the day this Friday, April 25, under a beautiful sun. In the gardens of the hotel complex, Vincent Moscato remembers spending the best hours of his childhood there, “even if it has changed a lot since”. Leather jacket on the back, dark glasses on the nose, but especially the verb always sharp, the Tarnais systematically takes pleasure in coming back where it all started “for him. And then, as he says so well: “Here, unlike Paris, there is sun!”
The same evening, Moscato, a former rugby player trained in the Gaillacoise athletic union (UAG), plays the fourth one-man show of his second humorist life, “Moscato goes to the table” in front of a packed room, as wherever he goes on tour. “I always try to talk about rugby in my shows. It was a big page of my life, but I do not lock myself in there either,” he warns.
No, what he likes on the boards is “indignant at general news”, that he follows a lot, always with his usual verve and his flowery expressions. Even if it means venturing on land that he has never surveyed and too bad for credibility. That’s a bit, the Moscato formula. “In sport, it’s the same. Sometimes I’m talking about things I am not an expert. To talk about skating, it is better to ask Candeloro than to me for example (laughs). But I do not take my head too much and I try to stay myself, he confesses. The roots are important. I never wanted to take myself too seriously and I think people have hung on.”
The Tarn ambassador in the media
And the least we can say is that the figures speak for the old international hooker (four selections). Landed on Monte-Carlo radio in 2005, the one who lives in the 16th arrondissement of the capital has never changed cremerie. “Radio? It was a bet, because as in the cinema, in the media, there are more called than elected officials. It is really a snack as the middle.”
-However, for 19 years, he has been animating daily, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., the Super Moscato Show on RMC and success, which he “does not really explain, only growed during these almost two decades. A million listeners listen to him every day debate all sports with his friends Aigoin, Dorian, Di Meco or Charvet, always by peeling the names (especially English) and making the company laugh, often despite himself.
A program that has become the fifth more listened to from France in podcast (4.5 million monthly listeners) and in which he “always takes pleasure in talking about Tarn and Gaillac”, as soon as he can. “When you have an accent and you come from below, you have to be proud of it! I am. The Tarn is a rugby land and I like to come back to see the UAG from time to time. The other time, I was with Bernard (Laporte, editor’s note).”
A new step on television
With its pharaonic audiences on the air, the Super Moscato Show has been made since last January, a new place on television, on RMC Story. A change that has not upset the one who has become used to cameras for a long time, especially in the cinema alongside Jean Reno or Daniel Auteuil. “TV, it adds a little pressure, because we are in public, but nothing more. I have never been chilly of my thoughts and I kept my freedom of tone. Me, what interests me, is to always hit the radio. After, if in passing we can catch one or two housewives …”, he smiles.
Recently, the most famous Tarnais of the PAF even returned to the Dance with the Stars, on TF1, “to mess around with Frank Lebœuf”. Proof that at 59 years old, he does not forbid anything. Not even to stop the radio. In any case, the one who defines himself as “a needy that is afraid of idleness”, confesses to having already thought about it. “I know that I am closer to the end than at the beginning and I do not want to do the emission too much. I will continue as long as I take pleasure and that I have gas with each antenna taking.”
The rest? It may be a retirement, green, “in the Tarn valleys”, but in an already rewarded farm. “I learned the masonry with my stepfather, Francisco Martin, but I don’t have much left. Planting a nail or two, going up a wall, you shouldn’t mess around!”
